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Actually, young Cocozza lived in a fairly pleasant working-class neighborhood, where his parents, Antonio and Maria Cocozza, had a six-room house and brought up their only child with pampering indulgence. The elder Cocozza, a decorated World War I combat veteran on a total disability pension, is a semi-invalid; his wife worked as a seamstress in the Army quartermaster depot. Freddy, as everyone called their son, was a spoiled, reckless kid: one of his teachers still remembers him with a shudder as "one of the biggest bums that ever came into the public-school system...
...King, Leopold will get a pension of $120,000 a year, will probably stay on in Belgium, spending much time at his old palace-as the guest of his son. Belgians wondered last week whether Leopold would go on asking the King to take his elbows off the table...
Last week A.L.P.A.'s executive board had enough. In a session that broke up at dawn, the union's directors kicked Behncke out of the presidency, retired him on a pension of $15,000 a year, equal to his salary as president. A.L.P.A.'s new president: Clarence Sayen. Cried ex-President Behncke, who threatened to take the whole matter to court: "Illegal Putsch...
Saturday afternoon E. Power Biggs will give the second in a series of organ recitals, after the B.S.O. has staged its first of three public rehearsals for the benefit of its pension fund...
Corner Turned. By 1938, profits were down 50% (to $800,000), and King Selfridge, deep in debt himself, was forced into the inactive post of president. By 1941, after Selfridge had retired on a pension of $8,000, the store faced a deficit of $6,800,000. Four years ago, when he died at the age of 90, King Selfridge's millions had dwindled to $6,000. But the store, under the hand of able Yorkshireman Horace Holmes, had turned the corner; for the last few years its operating profit has averaged more than...