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...BERT LAHR EMORY SCOTT LAND ARTHUR B. LANGLIE LEONARD LARSON ANDREA MEAD LAWRENCE BOBBY LAYNE LYMAN L. LEMNITZER WILLIAM J. LEVITT DAVID LILIENTHAL WALTER LIPPMANN CLARENCE C. LITTLE HENRY CABOT LODGE RAYMOND LOEWY GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA VINCE LOMBARDI JOE LOUIS ROBERT LOVETT ROBERT E. LUSK
Among entertainers and the arts: Bob Hope, Danny Kaye, Rex Harrison, Helen Hayes, Ginger Rogers, Jack Paar, Leontyne Price, Bert Lahr, John Gunther, Edward Hopper, Minoru Yamasaki...
...with their reputations somewhat brightened: New York's Mayor Wagner and veteran Labor Arbitrator Theodore E. Kheel. The goats were more numerous, but in a well-documented. 20,000-word postmortem. Times Labor Reporter A. H. Raskin narrowed the field to the two chief negotiators: Printers Union Leader Bert Powers and Times Vice President Amory H. Bradford...
Just two weeks before, the strike had also seemed at an end, but Bert Powers' striking printers kept it going by thumbing down a package deal of $12.63 a week. And why not? On the job, the top day scale was $141 per week; for not working, they were getting an average of $121 a week in strike benefits and unemployment insurance (both tax free). But the parent International Typographical Union put the heat on the printers by hinting it would cut off their benefits, and when the printers met again last week, the contract was approved...
Just when Manhattan's marathon newspaper strike seemed about to end last week, members of the International Typographical Union unexpectedly turned their backs on Local Boss Bert Powers' recommendation and Mayor Wagner's proposed $12.63 settlement. 1,621 to 1,557. Prodded by the mayor, the printers agreed to take another vote this week. If they change their minds and approve the contract, the striking photoengravers will be the last to ratify a contract in the record 15-week shutdown...