Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shadow of his younger brother Evelyn, at last tasted fame and fortune. His new novel, Island in the Sun, to be published in January, has made an across-the-board clean sweep of U.S. literary jackpots: 1) the Ladies' Home Journal is serializing it; 2) the Literary Guild has chosen it; 3) the Reader's Digest Book Club will digest it; and 20th Century-Fox will film...
...TONTINE, by Thomas B. Costain (2 vols., 930 pp.; Doubleday; $5.95), is Author Costain's eighth novel, a Literary Guild choice for October, and may serve only one useful purpose: to popularize the fascinating gimmick referred to in the title. The tontine (rhymes with "on green"), a fad which keeps reappearing through history, combines the suspense of the $64,000 question with the finances of the pyramid club. In Costain's tontine, begun in England just after the Battle of Waterloo, people in each of eight age groups enter the setup at 100 guineas a head. The money...
...Hollywood, the Screen Actors Guild voted to end a twelve-day strike against the producers of filmed TV shows, accepted a new contract, including 1) raises in minimum pay from $70 a day to $80, 2) a graduated percentage of actors' minimum wages for the second through the sixth reruns of the original film. The Guild renounced rights to payments for more than six reruns on the sound assumption that not even long-suffering U.S. viewers will sit still and watch a seventh rerun of any filmed TV show...
Britain's gruff, Manhattan-born Sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein, 74, returned to his native island for a brief visit, sallied through an outdoor show of the Sculptors Guild with all the verve of a bull in a statuary shop. Suspiciously eying some nondescript, nonobjective works, Sir Jacob reissued one of his favorite dicta: "I don't like abstract art of any kind, by any artist. Imaginative realism is what I like, not photographic realism." Then he gazed skeptically at a welded bronze piece, managed to choke out a noncommittal "Novel." But it reminded him of the "stovepipes" turned...
...week's end Senator Eastland recessed his hearings, with words of praise for the "cooperation" of the newsmen. The New York Newspaper Guild then got into the act, announced that it will fight for the reinstatement of Gordon and Barnet. The-Guild will go along with newspapers that fire staffers who are-or have been-Communists within six months of being questioned by a legislative committee. But it contended that the Times and News could not, under their contracts with the Guild, discharge staffers for pleading the Fifth Amendment, thus "exercising a constitutional right...