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...Franklin Anderson is lean and hard, chocolate-browned by the sun and wind. His farm is his pride, and rightly. He has no debts; his house, unlike the typical Kansas brown frame, is a cheery, red-roofed, red-shuttered white stucco behind a spic-&-span white picket fence. Frank Anderson is a successful...
...impressed and worried Hollywood was the way Sorrell dodged the jurisdictional trouble which turned C.S.U.'s strike a year ago into a shambles (TIME, Oct. 22). At one point it looked as if the A.F.L.'s International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees would cross Sorrell's picket lines and either 1) break the strike or 2) force the studios to shut down to avoid picket-line bloodshed...
...soft coal strike ended, the hard coal strike began. As usual, there were no picket lines; the strikers loafed, gardened, or drank up available beer in taverns. Would the whole pattern be repeated again? There was one consolation. The soft coal strike was the big strike. The hard coal strike was the little...
Next day, out on bond, the strikers returned. Boomed union president Paul Silver: "We will picket employers where we find them-at their plants, their homes, or on their Miami Beach vacations." But the police came back...
...minutes the delegates whooped, rang bells, filled the air with paper showers and snake-danced around the dingy hall. They sang Solidarity Forever and On the Picket Line while Convention Secretary Lou Goldblatt banged on a grand piano...