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Othello (by William Shakespeare; produced by The Theater Guild) gave Broadway its first powerful drama in months, its first Negro Othello in history. Playing the noble, credulous Moor was Paul Robeson, who played him 13 years ago in London, a year ago in Cambridge (Mass.) and Princeton (TIME...
...Dodd gets $50 a day for regular hours, extra for overtime. As his movie job is only intermittent and his parish salary is $175 a month, Dodd feels he can pocket the extra cash. He is one of the few clergymen who holds a card in the Screen Actors Guild...
...Achieved a Literary Guild selection with his best-selling Battle for the Solomons...
...throw a party. This is Booker T. Washington Day." There really is no such thing, but the energized reporters called every politician they knew, gravely informed them that Booker T. Washington Day was passing uncelebrated. (They explained to doubters that Booker T. was the "founder of the American Newspaper Guild.") By mid-afternoon 64 quarts of assorted liquor, one case of champagne, scores of politicos, plain-clothes men and plain people had arrived. The party was a magnificent success...
...world wars (he is now with OWI, soon returns to New York City's PM). Working on many papers and on many big stories, he has seen the news paper profession change gradually under the impact of powerful influences: the Depression, the rise of the American Newspaper Guild, the invasion of city rooms by women, the development of news magazines, the counterpull of radio, the expansion of government information agencies. The change he believes most important is the shift in emphasis from factual, objective news reporting to a standard of mixing opinion with fact to approximate full truth. Says...