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...Harvard Opera Guild has shown good sense in choosing three short operas for its spring presentation. Not only are the works interesting and unusual, but they are within the range of a student group whereas some of the more familiar "Grand Operas...
Warren, who is a professor in the English department at Yale University, and also teaches in the drama school received the Pulitzer prize for his novel "All the King's Men," in 1946; and the Screen Writers Guild award for his motion picture adaptation...
...years has been sensitive, white-haired Thomas F. Murphy, editorial-page editor of the Democratic evening Times (circ. 57,429). A Timesman for 60 of his 77 years, fighting Tom Murphy is a staunch unionist; in 1904 he helped found the Newswriters Union, a forerunner of the American Newspaper Guild. But in recent years, as labor goons and commissars pushed their thumbs deeper into Scranton's economic windpipe, old Tom hammered tirelessly at union despotism...
...G.P.s have averaged only $6,221 a year from N.H.S. (for cruelly long hours, including night calls); most pick up a few hundred more in special fees or by working for industry. Last summer the powerful British Medical Association and its trade-union shadow, the British Medical Guild, decided that something must be done. They drummed up doctors' indignation, presented the government with a demand for a 24% across-the-board increase. Trying to check Britain's wage-price spiral, the government flatly refused...
...Indeed? Up to the stage trotted Jesse Lasky Jr., an officer of the Screen Writers' Guild. The academy had asked Lasky to pick up Rich's Oscar after someone claiming he was Rich phoned to say that he had to sit up with his sick wife. But neither Lasky nor anyone else had ever heard of Rich-except Frank King, producer of the award-winning story of a boy whose pet bull is spared in the bull ring because of its gallant fight. King says he knows Rich all right, met him in Europe in 1952 and bought...