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Patiently, but with mounting irritation, Hearst executives denied the rumor every time it popped up, finally exploded last week when the American Newspaper Guild, recirculating the rumor, all but buried the Journal-American. In an article in the Guild Reporter, the Guild's International Executive Board asked U.S. Department of Justice trustbusters to investigate "with zeal a reported arrangement between Hearst and Scripps-Howard news, paper chains to carve up their markets." Continued the Guildsmen: "Now more than 600,000 subscribers of the Hearst Journal-American . . . may soon be deprived of their favorite newspaper, despite denials. The Hearst Journal...
Almost nothing is known of Brueghel's life. He became a member of the Antwerp artists' guild in 1551, traveled through Italy the next year. He first supported himself by making sketches for popular engravings, blossomed into genius in the last decade of his life, and died in 1569, before his 45th birthday. He left a wife and two sons. He was self-possessed, a habitual stroller and something of a practical joker; that about completes the record. Brueghel doubtless kept off the center of the stage on purpose: one sees better from the wings...
...Harvard Opera Guild will perform The Abduction from the Seraglio in February as its fourth major production, Davis L. Kennedy '60, production manager of the Guild, announced last night...
...addition, the Guild will present Menotti's The Telephone as a fall workshop, Kennedy added. Casting for both productions will start Sunday and continue through Tuesday...
Died. Theresa Helburn, 72, tiny (5 ft.), hard-driving director (one of six) of the Theatre Guild since its founding in 1919. co-director after 1939, who gave up middling playwriting and dramatic criticism to rescue the Broadway stage from commercial mediocrity in the 1920s by tenaciously putting on demanding works by such authors as G. B. Shaw, Eugene O'Neill, Robert Sherwood and William Inge, was the first to pair Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne on the stage (The Guardsman, 1924); of a heart attack"; in Norwalk, Conn. The Theatre Guild never recaptured its glories...