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Neutral Voice. Most announcers, even in such a major radio & TV center as Manhattan, earn less than $10,000 a year. But about a quarter of Manhattan's 400 announcers have annual incomes of from $10-$50,000. And a select few, including Stark and such topflight professionals as Ed Herlihy, Ben Grauer and Ralph Edwards, make more than $50,000 a year. Compared to TV actors, TV announcers are a moneyed aristocracy...
ANDRÉ GIDE, French novelist who died last year at 81, author of The Counterfeiters, Les Caves du Vatican, Theseus, etc., one of the topflight literary figures of the 20th century. The official decree banning Gide's work did not give a reason, but the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano offered an interpretation: "He lived as a nonChristian, even as a deliberate antiChristian. The taste for profanity . . . was carried by him to blasphemy . . . His art had a feeling of his lasciviousness . . . The work of Gide from beginning to end is all orchestrated on a tone of ambiguous...
...Eisenhower, who usually wears only three ribbons on his jacket (Army & Navy, D.S.M.s and the Legion of Merit), holds 43 foreign decorations, e.g., Britain's Order of Merit (limited to 24 living holders), France's Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honor, Russia's topflight Order of Suvorov, Poland's Cross of Grunwald, Tunisia's Grand Cordon of Nishan Iftikar. Last week France awarded him the Médaille Militaire, the highest French military decoration...
...team won an Olympic championship. Even that victory at the world's fair in St. Louis in 1904 may have been hollow: some experts still say that the Americans won because there was no real European competition, and furthermore predict that the U.S. will never turn out a topflight team. Why can't the U.S. produce champion gymnasts? One man who thinks he knows is German-born Coach Bernard Unser of the famed Bronx branch of the American Turners (until 1948, the Turnverein'). Says Unser: "In this country gymnastics is not considered a sport...
...went out of Snead in the third round. A blustery wind sent scores soaring. Hogan, imperturbable as usual, had a 74. Snead, playing later and knowing what he had to do to keep the lead, couldn't do it. He shot a 77, sending golf's two topflight players into the final round tied at 214 apiece. Said Hogan, discussing his chances with a tight-lipped smile: "The low score will...