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Every Thursday night, as many as 150 alcoholics-on-the-mend line up for their shots of vitamin B12. The nerve-soothing vitamins are paid for partly by the Corktown Guild, whose members are mostly bartenders, and partly by the Corktown Coop, made up of men trying to rehabilitate themselves, who scavenge scrap to raise the money for their injections...
...Heroes. The Theatre Guild's President Lawrence Langner thinks that scripts cater to parochial Broadway tastes, insists that the rest of the nation is not so fond of rape, reefers and sodomy. His views won front-page attention in a recent issue of Variety under the banner: FOLKS DON'T DIG THAT FREUD. And Broadway Critic John Chapman has been offering a similar warning: the theater is in atrophy, he suggests, because it has lost faith in the spirit...
Management's showdown effort was costly. Before the strike, the morning Oregonian had a daily circulation of 242,035, the p.m. Journal, 188,677. Oregonian Publisher Michael J. Frey estimates that total circulation has dropped 70,000; the Portland Newspaper Guild's President Robert L. Shults has set the loss...
Benjamin B. Page '61, president of Gilbert and Sullivan Players, concurred in Henning's prediction. Gilbert and Sullivan, like the Opera Guild, is less concerned with workshops, he explained, and will simply ask for the stage when the HDC is not using it. "As long as they're reasonable, there is no reason why they should not be in charge," Page remarked...
What kind of market awaits U.S. retailers in the 1960s? A luxury market, bigger and fancier than anyone dreamed possible a few years ago, says Andrew Goodman, 52, boss of Manhattan's elegant Bergdorf Goodman specialty store. Said Goodman, in a speech to the Garment Salesmen's Guild in Manhattan last week: "No longer is good taste the exclusive property of the few or the rich. During the next decade, price will cease to be the major criterion for larger and larger sections of the population. The new criterion will be style and taste...