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...York State Athletic Commissioner Julius Helfand won a clear-cut decision in his fight to disband the Boxing Managers Guild (TIME, Dec. 26). James Dougan Norris, president of the International Boxing Club, announced that he could no longer deal with guild managers, and the guild began to come apart at the seams. One after another, managers who wanted to go on making a living in the boxing racket resigned. By playing ball with Helfand, Norris had put himself back in an old and profitable position-once more he is boss of boxing...
...works." Fra Angelico found himself besieged with requests as his style became more widely known and admired. Contemporary accounts describe his reaction-he simply referred his patrons to the prior of his monastery, saying for himself: "True riches consist in being contented with little." Florence's prosperous Guild of Flaxworkers took a more businesslike attitude. Their contract specified that their three-paneled painting be done "inside and out with gold, blue and silver of the best and finest." In payment they offered Fra Angelico "one hundred and ninety gold florins for the whole and for his craftsmanship...
Last week they learned how wrong they were. After spending a few more weeks studying their empty testimony, Lawyer Helfand threw a massive book at every single member of the Managers' Guild. In round and rolling phrases that are seldom heard over coffee and bagels on Jacobs' Beach, he accused the guild of engaging in "vague and shadowy" activities, of actions that were at once "malevolent, monopolistic, flagrant, shocking, vicious, arbitrary and illegal, absolute and autocratic, underhanded and dishonest." Guild members, said Helfand, had consorted with "the sinister and shadowy figure of the notorious Frankie Carbo,"and, what...
...sudden, guild spokesmen started talking tough, made noises as if they would fight back in the courts. International Boxing Club President James D. Norris wondered out loud just how he would promote more fights in New York without the guild to do business with. But onetime Assistant District Attorney Helfand is too good a lawyer to make a move that the courts are likely to overrule. The odds are that the Managers' Guild is dead. If its members want to stick with boxing, they will have to mend their ways and operate on their own. But, said one guildsman...
...since a prolonged strike of the New York Newspaper Guild drove the Brooklyn Eagle out of business nine months ago, have almost 3,000,000 borough-proud Brooklynites had a daily newspaper they could call their own. Last week the Brooklyn Daily, after five modest years as a neighborhood paper, took on new staffers and features (including some from the Eagle), and expanded to fill a borough-wide role. But it promptly ran into labor trouble. The independent Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union called a boycott to force the new paper to break its distribution contracts and to employ...