Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while Joe was an ardent proselytizer for the Newspaper Guild, until he decided that Communists had infiltrated the union. Also, as he began to gain a reputation as a long-winded but conscientious political writer, he began to feel uppity about being lumped with clerks, office boys and stenographers in one union. He quit. The individualist Ball emerged in full flower...
...structural, for its owners are 172 key employees. In salary and dividends, they draw up to $50,000 a year. Even one of its police reporters, William Moorhead, is a country-clubbing capitalist. During the depression, the Star laid off no one, cut no salaries. The American Newspaper Guild has never made much headway on its staff. Staunchly Republican, the Star makes a point of getting along with the right kind of Democrats, like Roy Roberts' sometime poker and drinking companion, Harry Truman...
...Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, with Clifton Webb, Mildred Natwick, Peggy Wood, Leonora Corbett...
...Guild is dying out, and many of his old gaffers with it, but Chet has enough material in Three Rivers to last his lifetime. "There'll always be somebody to write about," he says. "Like Ossy Poe, who just died the other day. Only man in the world that liked horseradish on his doughnuts in the morning...
...Only other Book-of-the-Month selection from a U.S. university press: Wa-Kon-tah (Oklahoma), co-choice for November 1939. The Literary Guild has never picked a university press book. * Not to be confused with Iowa Poet Paul Engle (American Song, West of Midnight...