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...business. Reason: labor trouble. L.P.A., set up in 1949 with money from the C.I.O., A.F.L. and some independent unions to counteract the Communist-line Federated Press, recently laid off one man from its Washington staff to keep down its $5,000-a-year deficit. But the C.I.O. Newspaper Guild, which represents L.P.A.'s employees, said no. The hard-pressed L.P.A. was forced to rehire the employee and pay him more than $2,500 in back wages. When L.P.A. could not meet its weekly payroll as a result, the entire staff went on strike and threw a picket line around...
...labor contracts, has been loudly crying crisis. Last week Guy Nunn, a radio commentator sponsored by Reuther's United Automobile Workers, spoke of "bread lines," "soup kitchens," and "long lines of unemployed" in Detroit. Pressed to point them out, Nunn could find only one-at the Capuchin Charity Guild, where for years the monks have given daily handouts for anyone who shows...
...Mutton tumbled and broke her left ankle. At her side, bearing up nobly, Rubi was consoled a bit on hearing that the Dominican Republic had reinstalled him at his Paris diplomatic post, which had been yanked out from under him last month. To cheer Porfirio further, the Custom Tailors Guild of America announced that he had beaten out President Eisenhower in a poll of its members to choose America's best-dressed man. Said a Guild official: "Whatever else may be said about him, Mr. Rubirosa is, indeed, perfection itself in sartorial matters . . . The nation's men could...
Even the Literary Guild, customarily little interested in unknown novelists, chose three first novels in 1953, and two were good. Stephania, a story of difficult and subtle relationships among patients in a Swedish hospital, was the surprising work of Ilona Karmel, a Polish graduate of Nazi concentration camps who wrote an adopted English that was both expert and moving. The other was Helen Fowler's The Intruder, an Australian novel about a mind-sick veteran and the family of his dead buddy. Another notable first was Mr. Nicholas, a whiplash dissection of a tyrannical London father by young...
...full-length coats, they now emphasize smaller pieces, such as stoles, short jackets and neckpieces, which can be worn on warm days. They have also put fur to work in earrings, cuff links, sweaters and even bow ties. Said Executive Secretary Irving Genfan of the New York Master Furriers Guild: "We're putting fur on everything except...