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...sermon at the annual "Red Mass"* of the New York Guild of Catholic lawyers, the Rev. Laurence J. McGinley, S.J., president of Fordham University, attacked the "obsessive liberalism" of the present day-"that frightened and frantic pursuit of freedom alone and at all costs." Obsessive liberalism, he said, "not only seeks an excess of freedom but denies any function to authority save that which is temporary, remedial-and for others. It has made 'authoritarian' a bad word in the semantics of our day. It has proliferated committees in defense of every freedom, but none to uphold authority...
...shadow of his younger brother Evelyn, at last tasted fame and fortune. His new novel, Island in the Sun, to be published in January, has made an across-the-board clean sweep of U.S. literary jackpots: 1) the Ladies' Home Journal is serializing it; 2) the Literary Guild has chosen it; 3) the Reader's Digest Book Club will digest it; and 20th Century-Fox will film...
...TONTINE, by Thomas B. Costain (2 vols., 930 pp.; Doubleday; $5.95), is Author Costain's eighth novel, a Literary Guild choice for October, and may serve only one useful purpose: to popularize the fascinating gimmick referred to in the title. The tontine (rhymes with "on green"), a fad which keeps reappearing through history, combines the suspense of the $64,000 question with the finances of the pyramid club. In Costain's tontine, begun in England just after the Battle of Waterloo, people in each of eight age groups enter the setup at 100 guineas a head. The money...
...Hollywood, the Screen Actors Guild voted to end a twelve-day strike against the producers of filmed TV shows, accepted a new contract, including 1) raises in minimum pay from $70 a day to $80, 2) a graduated percentage of actors' minimum wages for the second through the sixth reruns of the original film. The Guild renounced rights to payments for more than six reruns on the sound assumption that not even long-suffering U.S. viewers will sit still and watch a seventh rerun of any filmed TV show...
Britain's gruff, Manhattan-born Sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein, 74, returned to his native island for a brief visit, sallied through an outdoor show of the Sculptors Guild with all the verve of a bull in a statuary shop. Suspiciously eying some nondescript, nonobjective works, Sir Jacob reissued one of his favorite dicta: "I don't like abstract art of any kind, by any artist. Imaginative realism is what I like, not photographic realism." Then he gazed skeptically at a welded bronze piece, managed to choke out a noncommittal "Novel." But it reminded him of the "stovepipes" turned...