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...Polski jacked up its press run from 48,600 to 150,000 copies daily, wrapped an 18-page English section around its ten-page Polish editions. A pinch-hitting daily, the Detroit Reporter, was started by newsmen from the strikebound papers with $100 and blessings from the American Newspaper Guild and the Allied Printing Trades Council. At week's end it was printing 100,000 eight-page papers...
...returned with reticence is revealed in a series of woodcuts and engravings from the 15th and 16th centuries. Germany was barely touched by the Renaissance sun that burned in the south. In contrast to the freedom of the Italian artists, the Germans were still rigidly bound by the guild system. More important, they continued to develop the Northern, Medieval traditions, sloof to the revolution that had taken place across the Alps...
Married. Nancy Kelly, 34, actress of stage (The Bad Seed) and screen; and Warren Caro, 48, Theatre Guild executive; she for the third, he for the second time; in Manhattan...
...Prosperity-in-Hollywood note: as a result of increased TV film production, the Screen Actors' Guild has had the greatest rise in membership in its history: from 8,370 in 1954 to 9,832 this year, an increase of almost 20%. ¶ While the Roman Catholic bishops of the U.S. cracked down on "a rising tide of moral laxity in movies," and called for a revitalization of the aims and purposes of the National Legion of Decency, the Motion Picture Association vigorously protested to Congress that movie censorship had "seriously eroded" the constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression...
...achievement. The first full-scale exhibition of six centuries of German drawing ever put together in one show opened this week in Washington's National Gallery, first stop in a cross-country tour of four major U.S. cities. To show the whole range of German drawing, from medieval guild model books to 20th century Germany's Käthe Kollwitz, the West German government assembled 153 key works from 26 German museums and collectors. The result proves that though German artists rarely top the rich palettes of Italian painters or outdo the French in taste and elegance...