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...ITU members, said Brown, were violating their contract with the Sun by refusing to cross the picket line. "The Newspaper Guild," he complained in a telegram to his Baltimore local, "has taken an uncompromising position in its negotiations with management," a surprising comment from the boss of a union whose New York local had pre cipitated a 114-day New York news paper strike two years ago that helped kill one paper. "Members of Baltimore Typographical Union," Brown went on to say, "owe their first loyalty to the ITU. Any member returning to work under the current contract would...
Although no other publishers announced plans to reopen, they left the door open. The Publishers Association of New York City issued a statement saying merely that Mrs. Schiff's decision "does not affect the firm determination of other publishers to press for a satisfactory settlement" with the ITU...
...last fortnight, Cartoonist Batchelor, whose personal driving record is well-nigh unblemished, finished the 1,001st contribution to his crusade, drove out for a weekend at his country home in Connecticut. There, behind the wheel of his 1950 Jaguar sedan (Conn, license ITU-for Inviting the Undertaker), with his wife at his side. Cartoonist Batchelor ran head-on into real-life inspiration for his 1,002nd traffic cartoon...
...chos of his southern frontier district have a saying: "He can wait like an Indian and plan like a Jesuit." This week Vargas issued no victory cries, no bright new programs. He didn't say a single word. He remained at his bare ranch house at Itu, occasionally went out to putter in his garden...
Hundreds of queremistas were waiting for Vargas at the São Paulo airport when he flew in from Itu, with Adhemar at his side. "He's our little father," cackled a toothless old woman. It took 20 minutes for the police to get Getulio to a car and on his way to the chartreuse-and-blue Palacio dos Campos Eliseos, where São Paulo's great and near-great waited. (Amid the music and toasts, Adhemar had a happy thought for the future: "He'll stay [in the presidency] five years, and then it will...