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...first proposed in my "Hollywood in Focus" column during the 1940s. As one of a dwindling minority of "moderates" among the Legion's lay consulters, I am somewhat loosely characterized in your otherwise excellent story. It is my position that, by faulty communications with Hollywood moviemakers and critical bias in favor of morally and ideologically debatable foreign films, the Legion has now reached the point of surrender to forces it was and is supposed to fight...
...thing to an academic 19th century historical painter that the avant-garde can boast. Back in the heyday of abstract expressionism, he did a takeoff on Emanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware, attempting, as he put it, "to paint its drama, pageantry, spectacle and absurdity without political bias...
...much that he applies for a job as a nanny? The male homosexual who would like to fit bras for a living? Hardly more farfetched is the case of two prostitutes, Jeanette McDonald and Hattie May Smith, who have appealed convictions in Oakland, Calif., on the grounds of sexual bias. They were discriminated against, say they, because the male customers who were with them when they were arrested were released without charge...
Since the law went into effect last July, 306 complaints of sex bias have been lodged with the commission. Typical was the case of a woman employed as an assembler in a California electronics plant. Although she holds a degree in electronics, she wrote, and could make from $1 to $3 an hour more as a technician, her employer refused to pro mote her on the convenient ground that she might have to lift something weighing more than 25 Ibs.- which would violate a California law that prohibits women workers from doing just that...
...help employers decide where sex ends and discrimination begins, the commission, chaired by Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., recently drew a set of guidelines defining unlawful sex bias. From now on, ruled the commission, it shall be unlawful...