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These setbacks come as policy feuds within the organization have boiled into the open. In December more than 80% of 160 Newspaper Guild members signed a petition demanding the ouster of Rhoda H. Karpatkin as executive director of Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of the magazine. The protesters were incensed over what they considered Karpatkin's shaky financial judgment. Their demand, however, was firmly rebuffed...
...guild petition reflected the division that has bedeviled Consumers Union for about a decade. On one side are the so-called toaster testers, who want the organization to stick to evaluating products. On the other are the activists, who have pushed Consumers Union into new directions that include opening three public advocacy offices and launching Penny Power, a magazine aimed at elementary school children. The testers blame the expansions for much of the organization's $5.7 million deficit...
Some family reunions turn into harpoon fests. That is precisely what happens in this seriocomic British play that is having its U.S. premiere under the auspices of the Philadelphia Drama Guild at the Annenberg Center's Zellerbach Theater. All the characters are moving targets, and the barbs are fast, furious and maliciously funny. Bernard (Joseph Maher), the father and pivotal figure of the play, is in a double state of decline: carking middle age and advancing penury...
...member of the group that organized the protest--the Yale Law School chapter of the national lawyer's guild--said Harry Wellington, dean of the law school, told the guild they would face recriminations if the panel was disrupted...
...become a stage and screen director, a pioneering television producer and, during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency, the first White House TV adviser; of cancer; in New York City. Flippant comedy roles on Broadway propelled him to Hollywood, where he became president of the Screen Actors Guild in 1935. In 1950 he launched Robert Montgomery Presents, one of TV's first major dramatic series, and kept it going for seven seasons...