Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...labor contracts, has been loudly crying crisis. Last week Guy Nunn, a radio commentator sponsored by Reuther's United Automobile Workers, spoke of "bread lines," "soup kitchens," and "long lines of unemployed" in Detroit. Pressed to point them out, Nunn could find only one-at the Capuchin Charity Guild, where for years the monks have given daily handouts for anyone who shows...
...Mutton tumbled and broke her left ankle. At her side, bearing up nobly, Rubi was consoled a bit on hearing that the Dominican Republic had reinstalled him at his Paris diplomatic post, which had been yanked out from under him last month. To cheer Porfirio further, the Custom Tailors Guild of America announced that he had beaten out President Eisenhower in a poll of its members to choose America's best-dressed man. Said a Guild official: "Whatever else may be said about him, Mr. Rubirosa is, indeed, perfection itself in sartorial matters . . . The nation's men could...
Even the Literary Guild, customarily little interested in unknown novelists, chose three first novels in 1953, and two were good. Stephania, a story of difficult and subtle relationships among patients in a Swedish hospital, was the surprising work of Ilona Karmel, a Polish graduate of Nazi concentration camps who wrote an adopted English that was both expert and moving. The other was Helen Fowler's The Intruder, an Australian novel about a mind-sick veteran and the family of his dead buddy. Another notable first was Mr. Nicholas, a whiplash dissection of a tyrannical London father by young...
United States Steel Hour (alt. Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC-TV) comes to TV loaded with talent. Sponsored by U.S. Steel, produced by the Theatre Guild, directed by Alex Segal (who established his reputation with Pulitzer Prize Playhouse and last year's Celanese Theater), the Steel Hour's first two shows have had competent acting, adult themes and an intellectual daring not common in television. The first play, P.O.W., dealt convincingly with a group of U.S. ex-prisoners returned from Korea to an Army hospital. The second, based on a 1941 Broadway play by Sophie Treadwell. examined racial...
...full-length coats, they now emphasize smaller pieces, such as stoles, short jackets and neckpieces, which can be worn on warm days. They have also put fur to work in earrings, cuff links, sweaters and even bow ties. Said Executive Secretary Irving Genfan of the New York Master Furriers Guild: "We're putting fur on everything except...