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...lunch with his staff in the White House mess, a dinner party, with Mrs. Truman and Daughter Margaret along, at Washington's swank F Street Club. Among his birthday presents: three dozen ties, a Panama hat, 63 roses and congressional talk of something more substantial-a pension of $50,000 a year on retirement. After paying taxes and White House operating expenses, he had only about $4,200 left of his $75,000 yearly salary. But delivery of that gift was uncertain...
...some of them were shocked when the Bell-controlled board of eleven directors awarded him 1) a five-year contract at a minimum of $55,000 a year; 2) a $160,000 annuity which would add some $10,000 to the $18,000-a-year pension which he is slated to receive at 60; 3) a royalty of $5 for each unit sold over 5,000 of a motorized wheelbarrow that Bell invented. The directors also set up a stock option plan for Bell to buy up to 50,000 shares of common at prices as low as half...
Glee Club activities reach the year's climax this week, as the College Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society join the Boston Symphony Orchestra in three appearances at Symphony Hall, beginning with the annual pension fund concert tomorrow night at 8:20 o'clock...
Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Johauncs Brahms' death, his "A German Requiem" will highlight the pension concert. Serge Koussevitsky will conduct the orchestra and chorus in the well-known work, which will feature James Pease and Frances Yeend in the baritono and zoprano roles...
...cleared his land, expanded his tiny holding into a sizable section and a half (960 acres). A few years ago he turned his farm over to his sons, now lives comfortably with the help of his old-age pension. In his time, the Ukrainians in Canada have increased to 325,000, the Dominion's sixth largest ethnic group. "I have no desire to return to the Ukraine, even to see it," he says. "My life in Canada has been too happy to want to return...