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Solid, Seasoned Staff. Finding space for the columnists is one thing; filling the news hole is something else again. During the long strike, some of the Trib's best reporters found other work. The American Newspaper Guild's demand for strict seniority forced Conniff to dump some promising youngsters and keep some tired old hands. "We have a solid, seasoned staff," he says when what he means is that the paper is stuck with 40 reporters who are 60 or older. In the confusion of matching personnel demands, Conniff ended up with six more copyreaders than he needs...
...three weeks when boilermakers and shipwrights clashed over who should trace a pencil line around a plastic pattern. Almost every skilled craft worker in Britain still demands and gets a "mate" to carry his tools and do his lifting and fetching for him-a medieval hangover from the guild apprentice system. A Vickers' shipyard, for example, has an electrician who earns $56 a week chiefly for replacing about 30 light bulbs a day in the sockets of portable lights. He has an assistant who earns $40 a week for handing him the bulbs...
Offscreen, Heston is president of the Screen Actors Guild and a frequent industry spokesman. He has made four tours from Nigeria to Australia for the State Department. Last week he spent two days in Washington testifying before a Senate subcommittee on community-antenna television. As early as 1961, when most of his colleagues were ignoring the Negro revolution, Heston joined a civil rights demonstration in Oklahoma City. In 1963 he publicly attacked Hollywood's "sorry record" of discrimination...
...negotiations between the New York news papers and the unions were immeasurably complicated last week when the U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan upheld an N.L.R.B. order forcing members of the New York Publishers Association to break ranks and bargain individually with the printers' union. While the Newspaper Guild's editorial employees have long dealt with each paper separately, the publishers have withstood the nine contentious craft unions largely by managing to bargain on a collective basis...
...winners get no pay, only transitory glory. As Mack says, "People get enough of a thrill just showing off." Of course, the American Guild of Variety Artists estimates that 40% of its members got their start on the Amateur Hour. Some of the richest of them flunked their first test. One night 81 years ago, the audience awarded first prize to a South American who played the laurel leaf, while voting down another contestant, Ann-Margret. And in 1953, a swivel-hipped lad named Elvis Presley didn't get past the first audition...