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Easy Payments, by Ray Doyle (Hermitage; $3), is a soap operetta, and its refrain is that a loan collector's lot is not an easy one. With a baby on the way and a stack of unpaid bills, sobersided Dan Cantrell cannot be choosy about his work. His job as "investigator" for the Trustee Personal Finance Co. is to hound the "slows." He soon finds that the slows' lot is not a happy one, either. Families live in crowded walk-ups where dank, paintless walls "shed their plaster skin revealing the ribs of lath." Unkempt women in faded...
...months. A polio attack left him with a permanent limp. Always drama-minded, Bill decided that radio "was the one place that a ham like me-and, believe me, I'm a ham-could limp and still get a job." He started as an unpaid announcer at Pittsburgh's station WWSW. Within five years, he was getting $300 a week. In 1944, he headed for New York and CBS: "But I don't kid myself. All the good announcers were overseas in service, so I got the job." Because of his limp, he shied away from...
...accusation of statutory rape), was all tangled up with another lady, though this matter had nothing to do with romance. The plaintiff: his former London landlady, winner of a court order requiring Flynn to cough up $128.80. This, she charged, was the amount she anted up to pay his unpaid bills after he moved out like Flynn. When he got the bad word, Flynn gave a defiant performance. "I shall not pay!" cried he. "I will defend this to the end [even though] it may cost me ten times as much as paying off-or 100 times...
...actually 36) for months
beforehand. Said Woltman: "All. . . denied the Communist charges.
Not one invoked the Fifth Amendment . . . Not one has been dismissed.
Fourteen have been reinstated, four with full clearances."
...five-man operating committee for Schenley Industries, Inc. (biggest U.S. distillery). Yaleman Weil, grandson of one of Macy's founders, resigned from Macy's after a year of falling profits and a money-losing price war on fair-trade merchandise. Since then he has been serving as unpaid president of the National Association for Mental Health...