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...nearly three hours, she emerged with Powers to announce that she would immediately begin calling some-but not all-of her 1,183 employees back to work under the old contracts. But it might not be that easy to get back in print on the cheap; the American Newspaper Guild advised its members to report for work, whether they were asked to or not. To rumors that Dolly already had a separate secret deal with Powers, she replied: "I have no agreement with Mr. Powers about a new contract. We will accept or reject any new settlement as it comes...
...Reporter, in the meantime, has run up a deficit of more than $536,000 despite the fact that it can get away with penny-pinching salaries, since 132 of its 283 employees still draw strike benefits from the I.T.U. and the Stereotypers' Union; the American Newspaper Guild shelled out $250,000 in benefits before cutting them...
Author W. C. Heinz, 48, is a former Manhattan sportswriter whose two previous books were about boxing. A Literary Guild selection for March, The Surgeon presumably reflects a doctor's-eye view of the profession, since the author's foreword expresses his debt to a dozen men who cannot be named "because of the anonymity which the medical profession prefers to impose upon its members...
...CONTRACT EXPIRATION : Powers demands that the expiration date of the Big Six be changed from Dec. 7 to Oct. 31. "This," he says, "is the most important issue of all right now." As it happens, Oct. 31 is the expiration date for the contract now held by the Newspaper Guild, biggest (8,500 New York members) but weakest of the ten newspaper unions. That date is one of the Guild's few real power levers: it comes just a few days before national, state and local elections, when readership interest is at a peak; moreover, it marks the beginning...
...Perry showed Lisa and David to Frank Perry, 32, her second husband and formerly an associate producer at New York's Theater Guild. He decided the story had high dramatic possibilities but realized that it would never work as a play, being far too fragmentary in its details, too much a series of swift sketches covering a full year in time. It should do beautifully as a movie. But who would write the script? Who would direct? They looked at each other...