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Earlier this month the unions were stunned to discover that apparently they did not. A cost of living increase of 1 % that was due failed to show up in 1977's first paychecks. The local unit of the Newspaper Guild, which represents some 65 of the affected workers, called a quick meeting and won permission from the guild's Baltimore-Washington chapter to hold a strike vote last week...
...less talented, in a man's profession. Men did not make the Bayeux tapestry, or embroider the gold-worked opus Anglicanum chasubles that were among the supreme glories of medieval art. By the late 15th century one artist in every four on the rolls of the painters' guild of Bruges was a woman. But names, patchy attributions and lost works do not make up a history. That had to wait until the 1960s, when a scattered interest in the subject was crystallized by the feminist movement. Here, beneath the surface of existing reference books, was a lost culture...
Quincy House Cinems Guild...
...last night's keynote speech, David W. Rintels '59, president of the Writer's Guild of America, said television devotes too much attention to sex and violence during family viewing hours...
Died. Dalton Trumbo, 70, prolific screenwriter and one of the Hollywood Ten who refused to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947; of heart failure; in Los Angeles. Because he would not say whether he was or ever had been a member of the Screen Writers' Guild or of the Communist Party, Trumbo served ten months in prison and was blacklisted for 13 years by Hollywood. Under pseudonyms he wrote some 30 scripts, including The Brave One, which won "Robert Rich" an Academy Award in 1957. In 1960 Trumbo wrote Exodus under his own name, following...