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Annie's incorrigible tendency to climb soapboxes has earned her a host of real-life enemies to match those who pursue her on the funny page. She has been castigated by the pulpit, educators, the National Lawyers Guild, and the American Association of Advertising Agencies. In 1956, an episode that seemed to glorify hoodlumism drew such a loud chorus of protest that some 30 newspapers suspended the strip. The high crime rate in Little Orphan Annie periodically produces other defectors...
...annual dinner of the Writers' Guild of America is one of those har-de-har-har festivals like Washington's Gridiron Club and Manhattan's Circus Saints & Sinners meetings. This year the tone was set early when John Huston arose to accept an award for advancing "the literature of the motion picture through the years." He waved a bottle of champagne at the cheering masses, declaring that he was drinking to them all "from an overflowing cup, with an overflowing heart." Champagne foamed out of his glass and down over his dinner jacket like a cataract...
...Frederick J. Rogoish, from the Business Office of the New York Times, brought suit against the American Newspaper Guild to force it to recover strike-benefit payments. Rogoish argues that the Guild did not call the strike (it was led by typographers), and thus had no right to authorize strike benefits for idled Guildsmen-or to make him help support them with deductions from his paycheck. - Even though current contracts do not expire until March 1965, New York's Mayor Robert Wagner exhorted both publishers and union leaders to get together next week in an effort to avert another...
...nudity, fie, says Dana Andrews, 52, new president of the Screen Actors Guild. All this film nakedness is just a producer's gimmick to hypo the box office "by having performers do something they can't do on TV." Furthermore, he harrumphed, those high-priced nudenik stars (he means Carroll Baker) are putting all kinds of pressure on newcomers to follow suitless...
...churches seem to be finding solutions. Within the World Council, there is widespread debate about the need to forsake the traditional parish in favor of new forms of urban churchas-such as the "guild churches" of London, each of which ministers to a particular fragment of the city's population, or the Japanese cell churches that serve textile workers in Osaka and are run by ministers who also work as secretaries in the textile unions...