Word: contract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tape & Technicians. The strikers professed to be uninterested in CBS's offer of a $185.50 weekly minimum wage unless it was accompanied by a tighter job-security clause in their new contract. But behind the talk of security was a looming new threat to their jobs: video tape, the electronic wonder that can record both TV's sounds and images on a magnetized plastic strip. Unlike film, such tape needs no processing, can reproduce what it has heard and seen-a second or a century later (TIME, Feb. 4, 1957). The reproduced image on the TV screen...
...generous man. Nothing is too much trouble or expense if it helps a promising young player. Despite his shyness, he is stubborn, determined, and has a strong sense of human dignity-including his own. "I will not be pushed about," he once announced politely but inflexibly during a contract negotiation, "like...
...recalls, "I said to myself, 'Who the hell is Willson?' It had been so long since I'd heard him on the radio I'd forgotten all about him. He played the show through for me the next day, and we signed a contract that night...
Meanwhile, all work remains stopped on the building project, as representatives of labor and contracting firms are still negotiating for a wage contract. As of yet, there is no indication of when the strike will...
Marquand-Type Society. While Wilson signed a more or less routine contract with his publisher Simon & Schuster, his royalties are above the 15% top writers receive, and certain unusual details are involved. The contract was negotiated and held by an intermediary group known as Ridge Press, in which Sloan Wilson is a minority stockholder. Head of Ridge Press is a pal of Wilson's, a onetime magazine (Argosy) executive named Jerry Mason, who acted as editor, designer and bargaining agent for the new book (Simon & Schuster handles printing, advertising and distribution). For Ridge Press, Mason kept full movie...