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...C.I.O. were to announce that it would admit no reporters to its conventions unless they belonged to its American Newspaper Guild, the U.S. press would unquestionably set up a yell that could be heard in the farthest recesses of the New York Times library. The British press was audible last week, for an equivalent reason. Beginning its 76th convention at Blackpool, Lancashire, the British Trades Union Congress announced that it would admit to its press tables only reporters holding membership in the National Union of Journalists. Object: to high-pressure more newsmen into militant N.U.J. (A smaller, rival union...
...CAUSED ME MUCH EMBARRASSMENT AND DISCOMFORT. WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO PUBLISH THIS TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THIS DISPARAGEMENT APPLIED ONLY TO ONE MAN, WHOSE NAME AND ADDRESS I WILL SUPPLY AT THE DROP OF A HAT, AND DID NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE SCREEN DIRECTORS' GUILD...
...Catholic Evidence Guild was founded in London in 1918. Its famed British leaders were Frank J. Sheed, Catholic publisher, and his wife, Author Maisie Ward (Gilbert Keith Chesterton, TIME, Oct. 11). First meetings were held in London's catholic Hyde Park, where they continued daily until World War II began. Britain's 500 Guild speakers still average over 100 meetings a week...
Produced with skill, staged with originality, and played with a rare combination of power and understanding, the Theatre Guild's current production of Shakespeare's "Othello" must go down on every theatre goer's list as a masterpiece of writing, directing, and acting...
...which, at a generous estimate, he could have bought in the open market for $50,000. What he bought was Green Dolphin Street, by Britain's lushly lyrical Elizabeth Goudge 13th City of Bells; The Castle on the Hill). It was already the September choice of the Literary Guild. Flushed with good fortune, Publishers Coward-McCann (who got a $25,000 pourboire from Mr. Mayer) promptly prepared to increase the $10,000 they had already earmarked for advertising a book that looked like a sure bestseller...