Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Normally the cowpokes on Warner Bros.' crowded TV range pursue their separate villains, but last week they all ganged up on a common enemy-Warner Bros. Encouraged by a withering denunciation of the studio by the Screen Actors Guild, the cowpokes drew a bead on 1) highhanded Studio Boss Jack L. Warner, who spends much of his time commuting between Las Vegas and the Riviera; and 2) William T. Orr, Warner's son-in-law and the studio's hard-driving TV chief. The cowboys' beef: the usual Warner Bros, contract, which binds screen hopefuls...
Winthrop: Freshman Glee Club; Glee Club; Freshman Crew; J. V. Crew; Gilbert and Sullivan Players; Harvard Opera Guild; Spee Club; Krockodiloes, Business Manager; Hasty Pudding Club, Vice-President...
...Francisco the youthful (ten years old) advertising firm of Guild, Bascom & Bonfigli fearlessly accepted a new account: for a 15% fee, G.B.& B. agreed to handle all of the Democratic Party's advertising and pressagentry during the 1960 national campaign. The California firm's acceptance marked the end of a long search by National Democratic Chairman Paul Butler, who had already been turned down by major ad agencies in Manhattan -because, so he said, they were fearful of offending big Republican customers...
Patiently, but with mounting irritation, Hearst executives denied the rumor every time it popped up, finally exploded last week when the American Newspaper Guild, recirculating the rumor, all but buried the Journal-American. In an article in the Guild Reporter, the Guild's International Executive Board asked U.S. Department of Justice trustbusters to investigate "with zeal a reported arrangement between Hearst and Scripps-Howard news, paper chains to carve up their markets." Continued the Guildsmen: "Now more than 600,000 subscribers of the Hearst Journal-American . . . may soon be deprived of their favorite newspaper, despite denials. The Hearst Journal...
Moving swiftly, Journal-American Publisher Joseph Kingsbury Smith had a $3,100,000 libel suit filed against the Guild. "Deliberate malice or shocking irresponsibility," said Smith of the article. "It is idiotic to think that the management of the Journal-American would be planning to suspend publication...