People: People, Jun. 8, 1942

For Services Rendered

Censored this year was SEC's annual announcement of the nation's best-salaried men & women. Not in the running were the salaries of executives in war industries (including Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Grace, who last year ranked No. 2) for fear they might give away war secrets.

Listed at the top of 1941's best-paid:*

>Cinemagnate Louis B. Mayer, $704,425.60. (He was tops for the second year running.) >Cinedoodle Dandy James Cagney, $362,500.

>Cinemactor Clark Gable, $357,500.

>Cinemagnate Nicholas M. Schenck, $334,204.54.

>American Tobacco's George Washington Hill, $288,144.

>Cinemactress Bette Davis, $271,083.

>Cineproducer Darryl Zanuck, $260,000....

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