Soprano Margaret Truman estimated that her 1950 earnings from concerts, radio and records might come to $75,000, but expenses would "cut my gross income in half." Also, she told the Saturday Evening Post, "there is a little man with a big book down at the Internal Revenue officebut who am I to gripe about taxes?"
James J. ("Big Jim") Jeffries, 75, heavyweight champ who was knocked flat in 1910 by Jack Johnson, the first Negro champ, observed that the fight game has become so sissified that "I'd rather see a wrestling match ....
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