Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old son had been casually invited by his tennis instructor to join the famed West Side Tennis Club, scene of the biggest U.S. tournaments and within walking distance of Bunche's home. But when Ralph Bunche, a Negro, tried to arrange the light-skinned lad's membership with the club's president, a Manhattan public relations man named Wilfred Burglund, he got a blackball response: the biggest tennis club in the U.S.'s largest Negro community, the world's biggest Jewish community, excludes both Negroes and Jews. What's more, Burglund told Bunche...
...Oberlin College in Ohio, a new denomination of U.S. Protestantism was being born. The United Church of Christ began to come into being two years ago in Cleveland (TIME, July 1, 1957), when the General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches (membership: 1,401,565) agreed to merge with the Evangelical and Reformed Church (membership: 807,280). Working out an organic union between the two bodies is no simple matter; in Congregationalism each local church is entirely autonomous, whereas the Evangelical and Reformed Church is set up in the European tradition of pyramidal administrative authority. The first order of business...
...skilled in the ways of Kremlinfighting, is reputed to have saved Khrushchev's neck by rallying the 130-man committee and, in so doing, helping Khrushchev to defeat the Malenkov-Molotov-Kaganovich wing of the party. That was in June 1957; that same month Kozlov was awarded full membership in the Presidium. Less than a year later, Khrushchev made him First Deputy Premier, ranking him with the crafty Armenian First Deputy Anastas Mikoyan. But Khrushchev has admitted to friendly diplomats that Kozlov, not Mikoyan, is his choice for successor as Premier...
...Pains of Success. In some respects, success has proved more unsettling than growing pains. Triumphant in its drive for wages, the Guild today is a crusader lacking a crusade. Membership tends to be listless: last year the Portland (Ore.) local lowered its attendance quorum to 10% to get legislation out of indefinite hock. In the last twelve years the Guild has added only 6,560 new members, has made little or no effort to plaster the gaping holes in its ranks, e.g., such traditional holdouts as the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Milwaukee Journal, the Detroit News...
...Astor last week, conventioneers nominated New York Post Librarian Arthur Rosenstock, 56, to replace outgoing International President Joseph F. Collis, assistant managing editor of the Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) Record, reset their sights on a membership goal of 50,000, a minimum wage of $200 for experienced newsmen, and listened to a barrage of speeches by outside labor leaders, including one by Francis G. Barrett, New York local president of the International Typographical Union, urging one big union for all newspaper employees-editorial, mechanical, printing, etc. But hardly a word was heard about perfecting the reporter's craft, a function...