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Predictably, the president of the printers' union, Bertram Powers, hailed the decision because, as he delicately put it, "it will enable us to meet the particular problems of the individual publisher." Just as predictably, John J. Gaherin, president of the Publishers Association -an organization whose very existence is threatened by the ruling-announced plans for an appeal, perhaps to the U.S. Supreme Court, which can accept or reject the case as it pleases. Though it was a unanimous 3-to-0 opinion, the lower-court judges were frankly uneasy. "I fear," wrote Judge Irving R. Kaufman, "that our decision...
Some elements in Sklar's play transcend the form. His composite town of Leucadia presents a number of convincing Southern characters including a chilling deputy sheriff (perfectly portrayed by Roger W. Loomis) and a hopelessly lost, despicable belle (also well acted, by Susan Bertram...
...forced integration came last week in Albany. By a 41-to-19 vote, the New York state senate approved a bill that in effect sought to ban bussing. Supporters of the bill called the vote a victory for the "neighborhood school concept." But Brooklyn's Negro Assemblyman Bertram Baker, chairman of the Education Committee, who bottled up a similar bill previously, pronounced that the senate version "does not have a ghost of a chance" of getting to the assembly floor for a vote...
...Massachusetts-born Robert Preston guides a tour through Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin and Michigan in this series of specials on regions of the U.S. Some of the scheduled participants: Jazzman Dave Brubeck, Green Bay Packers Coach Vince Lombardi, Repertory Theater Head Tyrone Guthrie and Architect Bertram Goldberg...
...similar misapprehension about the nature of a character seems to underlie Natalie Bider's Diana, the chaste teenager with whom Bertram thinks he is sleeping (while in fact Helen has substituted herself.) Diana's shift from a scatterbrained ingenue to a wordly wise young woman seems less the product of growth than of failure to choose one consistent interpretation of the role...