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...behind the News). Last month the News roused its reporters' wrath with an internal memo announcing that the "product" would henceforth stress stories about "Detroit and its horrors that are discussed at suburban cocktail parties." The subscription drive has met with similar hostility. Complained a Newspaper Guild officer: "That's just not our role. The obvious answer to the circulation problem is to put out a better newspaper and cut out the garbage like that memo." Countered Managing Editor Burdett Stoddard: "My daughters thought it was a good idea. They're trying to get something for their...
...there are signs that this trend may eventually be reversed. The growing demand for closer regulation of the medical profession, particularly the new emphasis upon credentials from training schools, attended only by men, has already begun to reduce the practice of female doctors and midwives. In England, where guild pressure to regulate the crafts has been strong for over a century, almost no skilled trades remain open to women...
Another advantage is that it gives wider exposure to one of Shakespeare's supreme achievements. It was exactly 30 years ago that I was bowled over by the Theatre Guild's production of the play--with Henry Daniell's penetrating Leontes, Jessie Royce Landis's imposing Hermione, and Florence Reed's unsurpassable Paulina--and I've been in love with it ever since. But productions remain exceedingly rare, and the work has garnered a great deal of badmouthing from scholars and critics, largely on the grounds that the play is different from others they know and admire...
...owners in the microcosm of one large firm. Associate Editor Peter Stoler has won a Special Achievement award from the Sigma Delta Chi Deadline Club for the cover story "Hypertension: Conquering the Quiet Killer." Three other TIME staffers and contributors last week received Page One awards from the Newspaper Guild of New York. They are: Associate Editor Burton Pines, for a report on the growing conflict between rich and poor nations; Photographer Dirck Halstead, for his color treatment of new international beauties; and Photographer Ken Regan, for his color photos of Boxer Chuck Wepner. The Newspaper Guild of New York...
Last week the Newspaper Guild of New York called a strike against Time Inc., the first in the company's 54-year history. During negotiations Time Inc. had already reached agreement with the Guild on many benefits and improvements, but several major issues remain in dispute. The company regrets the strike action because it considered its contract proposals fair and generous. Throughout the strike, Time Inc will continue to publish, on the usual schedule, all its magazines-TIME, FORTUNE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, PEOPLE, MONEY -as well as TIME-LIFE Books...