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...American Newspaper Guild, which represents newsmen all over the U.S., has long contended that it would never force a wage increase that would put a paper out of business. Last week Brooklyn Eagle Publisher Frank D. Schroth was trying to put the Guild's contention to one of its rare tests. Four weeks ago the Guild struck the Eagle, and when mechanical-union employees refused to cross the picket line the paper was forced to suspend publication. The Guild demanded the same $5.80 package wage increase that staffers on Manhattan dailies got in the latest round of wage negotiations...
...ailing Eagle (circ. 124,817) offered only $2.40, insisted that it should not be classed with Manhattan papers and should not pay the same scale. Said Publisher Schroth last week: "It is financially impossible for the Brooklyn Eagle to meet the [Guild] demands and survive." Guildsmen, who still remember the bitter 14-week Eagle strike 17 years ago, contend that the Eagle has not proved it is unable to pay-i.e., by showing them the books. If the Eagle is not a New York paper, argued the Guild, why does it pay city-scale wages to its mechanical employees...
Pompey's Head is not nearly as good a book as the 1949 Marquand novel it parallels, but it is one of the big hits of the literary season. The movies (20th Century-Fox) have paid a $100,000 tribute to it, the Literary Guild is carrying it into hundreds of thousands of American living rooms, and for the sixth straight week it stands at the top of the fiction bestseller list...
...rickety old house applies to the government, waits 15 months while the application is processed through a dozen separate departments before reaching Crédit Foncier, the nationalized credit institution which may help them finance their project. Permission granted, the French couple then has to deal with the guild-conscious French architect and his seven fat handbooks entitled La Série Centrale des Architectes, which lay down exactly what may be done about building a house, in terms suitable for the age of Charlemagne. After the architect comes the French builder, a race apart from all others...
...part-time writer has become far more common than before. Says Novelist Merle Miller, president of the Authors' Guild: "In the igth century, the novelist turned out a book a year. He could make a living at it. Now a novelist writes a book every three years because he is doing things in between." Many writers teach, e.g., Lionel Trilling, Wallace Stegner, Katherine Anne Porter. Margaret Cousins, Karl Shapiro and John Crowe Ransom edit magazines. Some write for the movies, where it is easy to forget the novel-writing urge. By one estimate, just two Americans made a living...