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...leering title, bales of advance ballyhoo and the promise that it would expose the really "in" people in swinging London, this novel about a public relations man with an identity problem seems headed for bestsellerdom. A first printing of 40,000 copies has been ordered, the Literary Guild has snatched it up, paperback rights have been sold for six figures, and Paramount plans to film it. But nothing swings all that much in the book...
...surprise." Whether or not the selection was "depressing" is a matter of opinion, but if your man knew his stuff, he would hardly have found the outcome a surprise. For the past 16 years the Best Director award has gone to that director who has won the Director's Guild award. Zinnemann was thus the obvious favorite. Also, for 13 out of the past 14 years, the Best Picture has been Best Directed (the exception was the selection of Around the World in 80 Days when George Stevens won the Oscar for directing Giant, 1956). Since Paul Scofield...
Bitterness was the problem. Bargaining sessions produced only fits of temper. Negotiations were derailed at one critical point when the crusty publisher of the papers, Paul Block Jr., denounced the Newspaper Guild for taking scholarship money from the CIA. The only bright spot was a remarkably professional daily paper that the unions put out on a collection of antiquated presses; it reached a circulation of 80,-000 and was actually making money. Agreement, when it came, was a result less of bargaining than of mutual wearing-down. It reportedly provided for a two-year contract and a $21 raise...
...also disclosed last week that CIA has been pumping money into international labor organizations, which have set themselves the laudable task of bringing fair labor standards and union democracy to underdeveloped nations. Among the labor groups identified as agency dependents was the international division of the American Newspaper Guild. Oddly enough, press pundits could not seem to raise the same kind of uproar over CIA involvement in their own union as they did over its supposed subversion of youth...
...C.I.A. has had in fomenting revolution and penetrating governments abroad, it obviously lacked the understanding of political relationships in this country to realize that sooner or later its operations would be disclosed. As a result, American students traveling abroad, the international operations of every group from the Newspaper Guild to the Y.W.C.A., will be suspect...