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Last week, much-sought-after Benny McCoy (who got $15 for his first season in organized baseball and thought his $5,000 last year was big money) proved he could count. He accepted the Philadelphia Athletics' offer: a $45,000 bonus, a two-year contract at $10,000 a year, an assured job at second base under the tutorial eye of old Cornelius McGillicuddy (Connie Mack). His was not only the biggest bonus in baseball history ($20,000 more than the previous top, given Rick Ferrell by the Browns in 1929), but it made Rookie McCoy the highest-paid...
...rumor he was talking about proved well founded. Dr. John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland, famed Pitt football coach, who was dumped into the open market a year ago after a row with Pitt educators, was thereafter rumored engaged almost as often as Brenda Frazier, had actually signed a contract: to coach the Brooklyn Dodgers, National League professional-football club...
...Fall River, Mass., the second gas mask maker (Firestone) is also at work under a $328,329 contract virtually identical with Johnson & Johnson's. Furthest advanced of all is the third maker, Good year, expected to swing into production within a week at Akron, Ohio, where it will turn out 5,000 masks...
Without consulting the membership, the officers created a new position for Dr. Hamilton, signed a five-year contract raising his annual salary from $6,000 to $12,000. But Comitia Member George Baehr of Mt. Sinai Hospital, balking at this $60,000 pledge, let the cat out of the bag. (Most Manhattan doctors seldom see $12,000 a year...
Finally the members hoarsely decided on a secret ballot. Result: 303 upheld the action of the Comitia, 488 repudiated it. Although this action of the membership could not legally break the contract, it seemed clear last week that the rank & file had won. After a hasty conference, the retiring president spread the word that Dr. Hamilton would resign...