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...months the unofficial want ad buzzed along the network grapevine. Gossip said the job was going begging, and many a hopeful hotshot managed to get his name noised about as a candidate. But the yearners never had much of a chance. Last week one of the plushiest producing jobs in the television business went to CBS Vice President Hubbell Robinson Jr., 53, the man who had dreamed up the Ford series in the first place...
...summer season's most fetching musical offering proved last week to be also its weightiest serving of social significance. The program: the Nat "King" Cole Show, starring the tall, courtly $500,000-a-year troubadour who has played the world's plushiest nightspots and sold a staggering 50 million records. Last fall NBC gave 38-year-old Cole a 15-minute weekly spot, making him the first of U.S. show business' numerous and talented Negroes to star as host of his own TV network show. Launching a new weekly series (Tuesday, 10 p.m. E.D.T.), the network last...
Rose wisely left town, later became the plushiest madam in Oklahoma City, and died in her big, satiny bed. Since then, so the story goes, she has haunted her old haunts around Natchez, wearing a classy red dress with a bustle...
Last week a Labor Ministry survey reported that prostitution has seldom been as lucrative as it is today for Japan's 124,289 registered shogi and 25,000 streetwalkers. In Tokyo, where the nightclubs are the plushiest, girls often make $100 a week, compared to $8 for the average secretary. From 1946 to 1953, American G.I. expenditures on the girls boosted the Japanese economy by an estimated $85 million a year, eight times the amount of money spent by dollar tourists...
Confidential's article is unusual because it combines the "Harvardsnob" and "smelly mess" approaches. In the same breath it speaks of Harvard as the "plushiest" university in the "ultra-snooty Ivy League" and as the center of widespread Communist infiltration. "Times have changed in Cambridge," says Rushmore, "and the worried looks on the faces of old alumni who proudly send Sonny Boy off to alma mater is all too apparent. What's bothering the erstwhile proud parents isn't Junior's grades as much as it is the type of Marx made by his professors...