Word: file
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four years ago, TV Playwright Rod Serling made his reputation with Patterns, a cliche-ridden but highly effective drama about a ruthless power struggle inside Big Business. Last week, as if to even things up, Playwright Serling took on Big Labor. The Rank and File (on CBS's Playhouse 99) sprawled across two decades of picket lines and meeting halls, was less neatly patterned than Patterns, with its close-order action around the directors' table. But, because exectuive suites have become a show-business commonplace, while the union local is still relatively fresh territory, The Rank and File...
Boss Jimmy Hoffa, Director Frank Schaffner left little doubt about whom he had in mind. Among other coincidences, the chairman of the Senate committee is gruff and dry-throated (Arkansas' Senator McClellan), the Senate's counsel boyish and shock-haired (Robert Kennedy). The Rank and File had more than its share of walking, talking cliches, was clearly less concerned with presenting moving characters than with characterizing a movement. But if nothing else, it succeeded in dramatizing the breathtaking reversal of political fortunes that transformed, in one generation, yesterday's picket-line victims into today's labor...
...Rank and File marked another reversal: Playwright Serling's departure from live TV drama. At 34 the author of more than 100 TV plays, he has been one of the most voluble defenders of the serious playwright's place in TV. But disillusioned Writer Serling announced last week that next season his world belongs to the series, has signed on to write a weekly half-hour science-fiction show called The Twilight Zone...
...Arkansas Democratic Senator John McClellan and added to the Kennedy bill midway through Senate debate on the measure as a floor amendment. In a private analysis circulated to the council members, A.F.L.-C.I.O. lawyers pointed out that "arguing against these rights [free speech, the right of rank-and-file union members to bring court action against their leaders, etc.] is like arguing in favor of sin." But the bill of rights was in fact "an invitation to litigation, a fertile source of conflict between federal and state law, an improper interference . . . with legitimate union activities, and a threat of probably...
...interrelationship of Greek, Hebrew, Moslem and Christian pholosophies. All 12 volumes have been written, five have already been published and two more are almost realy for the printer. Wolfson writes all his manuscripts out in longhand ("I'm old fashioned") and then puts them away in the huge file cabinets that adorn his study. When the rough draft of the entire series was written, Wolfson began the slow process of revising each manuscript, some of which he claims not to have looked at in over ten years. But all the rough drafts will eventually be reworked and published...