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Frazee is sitting tight on his insistence that Free Press pressmen get time and a half for rolling the Sunday edition. To the publishers, the demand seems ; outrageous. No morning paper in the country pays that bonus, and the morning Free Press is loath to set a precedent. The union demand is loosely based ! on what is called a "double shift," common enough on evening papers with Sunday editions, where pressmen must roll both the Saturday and the Sunday paper on the same...
...LeRoy-up to a point. Trouble was, the director of the Community Relations Service will receive only $22,500 a year, while Collins, as president of the National Association of Broadcasters since 1961, has been getting $75,000 in annual salary plus a $12,500-a-year living allowance. Loath to give up such a job, Collins suggested that he merely take a year's leave of absence from the N.A.B., with some compensatory financial arrangement. As it happens, Collins has not been a particularly popular N.A.B. president (a recent motion to oust him lost only...
...years, Baker played at a Long Island nightclub called the Cork 'n Bib. He was-cursed with a sleepy drummer, an eccentric pianist, and the abiding worry that he may have to speak to Manhattan from the suburbs for some time to come: New York City is notoriously loath to permit ex-addicts the "cabaret card" they need to perform in its nightclubs. But the welcome Chet won was as enthusiastic as it was deserved. He looked pained when he played and downright wounded when he sang, but his music had a bright, aggressive gusto to it that made...
What saddens some Germans even more than the traffic is the news that more than 200 of the ancient dwellings in Heidelberg's Altstadt-the "Old Town" where generations of Heidelberg students loved to stroll-are near collapse from neglect and fungus rot. Loath to destroy the Altstadt (and along with it a lucrative tourist trade), Heidelbergers are equally reluctant to try to raise the $50 million needed to restore the buildings...
...Lewisohn concert series has fulfilled that function with zeal and occasional distinction. Of late, the masses seem to be flocking to the concrete-tiered stadium with somewhat less enthusiasm, and several topflight performers (Rubinstein, Isaac Stern and others) now shun it. For one thing, these and other artists are loath to face the New York critics under less than ideal conditions (too little rehearsal time, bad weather, bad acoustics). Concerts have dwindled from 65 in 1939 to 24 in 1962, attendance from 375,500 in 1939 to 194,500 in 1962, while the cost of the cheapest tickets has gone...