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Giannini's Shrew was a joint enterprise for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the city's Music-Drama Guild, whose singers sang without pay. Shrew Katharina was sung by Dorothy Short, an insurance agent, Husband Petruchio by Robert Kircher, a professional trombone player. "The important thing," said Symphony Conductor Thor Johnson, "was to give all segments of the community a chance to take part...
...Richard Green, the Korean war was a bonanza. As manager of the Guild Products Corporation, an improvised firm with a rented plant in Newark, N.J., Green managed to get a $177,335 Government contract to make bandages of a type used by front-line medical corpsmen for emergency dressings and tourniquets...
Some of the Guild Products' output-earmarked for Marines in Korea-was up to specifications. But 15.000 of the company's bandages were made on defective machines, and were so cut that they would fall apart under the slightest strain. Navy inspectors were shown only good bandages. An indignant Guild Products foreman tipped off the FBI; if he had not done so, the faulty bandages would not have been discovered until they reached the Korean front...
...Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Somerset Maugham's Jane, with Edna Best, Michael Redgrave...
...Kiggins White switched from law to accounting because "an accountant who is lucky gets sent out on a variety of assignments and learns a lot." White got plenty of assignments. At 25, he was assistant to the president of the Union News Co.; at 30, treasurer of the Literary Guild; at 37, treasurer of Newsweek (then undergoing financial reorganization); at 38, treasurer...