Top Items About Salaries
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Anecdotes | Rags to Riches | Many star athletes from impoverished backgrounds have great difficulty adjusting to superstar salaries. "Fernando... | Anonymous | 216 | |
| Trivia | Angry Tired Teachers rock on! | In 2007, a group of musically-gifted Bay Area educators formed a rock band called the Angry Tired Teachers. Song... | root | 127 | |
| Trivia | Studies link beauty and success | One of the leading students of beauty and success is Daniel Hamermesh of the University of | root | 72 | |
| Anecdotes | Gershwin & Stravinsky: Music Lessons | George Gershwin once considered taking lessons from Igor Stravinsky. "How much will you charge to come over and give... | Anonymous | 54 | |
| Jokes | Alan King: Hotel Gradus | The legendary comedian Alan King was fired from one of his earliest jobs, at the Hotel Gradus in the Catskills. His... | Anonymous | 52 | |
| Anecdotes | The Guardsman | Shortly after their appearance in MGM`s The Guardsman, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne were asked by a reporter... | Anonymous | 51 | |
| Trivia | World's richest badminton coach | In 2007, the Sultan of Brunei paid his badminton coach the equivalent of $2.5-million. | root | 47 | |
| Anecdotes | Babe Ruth: Contract | One day at the height of the Great Depression, Babe Ruth was asked to take a pay cut. He refused, holding out for the... | Anonymous | 43 | |
| Anecdotes | Less Than Zeppo? | While the Marx Brothers were working on Broadway, Zeppo, the straight man (and thus the most disposable), decided to quit... | Anonymous | 38 | |
| Anecdotes | Back in the Cold Days? | Superstar salaries have not always been super. In 1933, after beating the New York Giants in the first East-West... | Anonymous | 38 |
