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...Sheppard's review of the new Dylan Thomas biography [Oct. 31], he mentions the '30s and '40s as being the time of underpaid poets. The tone seems to suggest that this is a thing of the past...
...Paroled, Fonda sets out to claim credit and royalties for his creation, and is falsely accused of wounding the thief in a scuffle over the matter. He then falls in with Tina (Susan Saint James), who has learned most of the music business's sharper angles as an underpaid back-up singer and who dreams up a neatly ironic scheme to get Fonda...
...most spectacular of these, when viewed personally and from below, can inspire wonderment and envy. Who could not feel underpaid when contemplating the $1.662 million that Harry J. Gray made last year as chief executive of United Technologies? In the face of such sums, ordinary Americans may ward off envy by remembering that they are also rewarded with "psychic income" (community regard, the feeling of being useful). Yet given the news that Marlon Brando is getting $2.25 million for 12 days of playacting-well, which of the vast hand-to-mouth crowd will not wonder whether psychic income is really...
...still die of starvation in the process. That is part of what this fund-raising for the BSO is about, too. Ten per cent of the aimed-for $115,000 goal will go toward the pension fund for the players, most of whom are grossly overworked and similarly underpaid. With some success, the orchestra players may be able to afford to give their children music lessons some...
...types who run CBS. "Fred's idea of small talk is the present schedule, and his idea of important talk is next year's schedule," says one old associate. "You wouldn't want to sit next to him at a dinner party." Silverman was also relatively underpaid at CBS, at about $150,000 a year with no contract. So when ABC offered him $250,000 per annum in a three-year contract to turn it into the hot network, he sprinted across 53rd Street to ABC. The day his defection was announced, ABC's stock rose...