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...while Joe was an ardent proselytizer for the Newspaper Guild, until he decided that Communists had infiltrated the union. Also, as he began to gain a reputation as a long-winded but conscientious political writer, he began to feel uppity about being lumped with clerks, office boys and stenographers in one union. He quit. The individualist Ball emerged in full flower...
...something had to be done, most Americans agreed. There was no consolation to be drawn from the fact that unions, in exercising their power, might also destroy themselves, as in the case of the recent 87-day strike of the Newspaper Guild against J. David Stern's Camden Courier and Post and Philadelphia Record. A disgusted Stem sold his papers; 580 strikers were left high...
...Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). Barrie's What Every Woman Knows, with Helen Hayes...
...structural, for its owners are 172 key employees. In salary and dividends, they draw up to $50,000 a year. Even one of its police reporters, William Moorhead, is a country-clubbing capitalist. During the depression, the Star laid off no one, cut no salaries. The American Newspaper Guild has never made much headway on its staff. Staunchly Republican, the Star makes a point of getting along with the right kind of Democrats, like Roy Roberts' sometime poker and drinking companion, Harry Truman...
...Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, with Clifton Webb, Mildred Natwick, Peggy Wood, Leonora Corbett...