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Bank vaults refused to lock. Long queues of customers logjammed the aisles of supermarkets behind silent cash registers, while clerks frantically tried to add up their checks with old-fashioned pencil and paper. When police ordered evacuation of the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind, 200 patients easily felt their way out of the pitch-black building, leading their helpless doctors and nurses...
Such backbiting has been going on since 1954. when Reporters Franken and Grove, both members of the American Newspaper Guild, a C.I.O. affiliate, offered their services-at $5 a week-as undercover editors of the C.I.O. News. The column "Checking the Press" had been introduced in 1950 with the News's hope that it would "succeed in forcing the daily papers to report the news that they now suppress...
...work in the factory, 16 years later was its general manager. The family firm still employs fewer than 100 workers, but Fritz Mueller has spread its name and fame by being a prodigious civic-affairs man-president of the Grand Rapids Furniture Makers Guild, the local United Hospital Fund, the Chamber of Commerce, and football-boosting member of the governing board of Michigan State University (he holds an honorary M.S.U. doctor of laws degree and a gold-engraved lifetime pass to all M.S.U. athletic events). But neither his conservatism nor his clubbiness prevented him from pulling out of the National...
THOMAS J. MURPHY Executive Vice President Newspaper Guild of New York New York City...
During its six years (146 shows) on TV, the Steel Hour (produced by the Theatre Guild) has pulled the same trick more often than its competitors like to remember. And more often than not, its secret has been good actors, live performances. Last week it was June Havoc as Momma, Edward Andrews as Dad, and Jane Withers as Momma's sister, who put a lively kick into Pink Burro. In the past, Tallulah Bankhead, Ethel Merman, Maurice Evans, Helen Hayes and Julie Harris handled similar chores. No one on the Steel Hour sees any reason to search...