Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bronstein stopped lending money by 1950, but by then the bloom was off the peach. "Heywood Broun put me out of business when he organized the Newspaper Guild," he says. "When the boys began making enough money to tide them over from one payday to the next, there was no more need for my services...
That Kisser. The fight for parts went on, and in fighting for himself, Bill found himself fighting for others. He was elected a vice president of the Screen Actors' Guild, and slugged it out with the big studios in many a negotiation, with quick wit and a sharp mind that grew more analytical the more it saw of Hollywood. At the same time, Bill came to understand the problems of the big executives, and to wish a little wistfully sometimes that they were his to solve. Force of Arms, Submarine Command, Boots Malone-his face, though it was slowly...
...handling the difficult Bach vocal line. He is accompanied by a small Baroque orchestra, and the combination is probably quite close to the music's original sound. The recording is difficult to appreciate on the first hearing, but the result is a wonderful kind of impersonal exaltation. (Bach Guild...
...York State Athletic Commissioner Julius Helfand won a clear-cut decision in his fight to disband the Boxing Managers Guild (TIME, Dec. 26). James Dougan Norris, president of the International Boxing Club, announced that he could no longer deal with guild managers, and the guild began to come apart at the seams. One after another, managers who wanted to go on making a living in the boxing racket resigned. By playing ball with Helfand, Norris had put himself back in an old and profitable position-once more he is boss of boxing...
...brother, can squeeze out this sort of dialogue as fluently as any large-sized tube. To his gift of the gab, Alec adds a bird's-eye view of life: his new novel is fairly crammed to the horizons with ever-speaking likenesses. The book is a Literary Guild selection for January, has been condensed, serialized, and bought for the movies...