Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guild, only four months old, is the creation of 49-year-old Trumpeter Cecil F. Read. In 1956 Read led a revolt of Hollywood's Local 47, A.F.M. He protested the handling of the Music Performance Trust Funds, which collect phonograph-record and TV movie music royalties to use for unemployment benefits for the entire A.F.M. membership. Read complained that although performances by the 15,000 Hollywood musicians provide the Trust Funds with more than 50% of their revenues, only 4% of the revenues ever gets back to Local 47. Expelled from the A.F.M.. Trumpeter Read recruited musicians...
...Read's first post-victory job will be to sit down with studio representatives to work out a new contract for settling the five-month-old strike called against major motion picture companies by the A.F.M. over royalties on films released to TV. His second job: to call elections contesting the A.F.M.'s authority in the lucrative fields of live television and recordings. Petrillo's successor. Herman D. Kenin, predicted "catastrophe" for the Musicians Guild-brave talk to conceal the fact that Kenin's federation had suffered one of the rare setbacks in its 62-year...
...program's chief architect is C. Douglas Dillon, 48, onetime chairman of Dillon, Read & Co., investment bankers, who was promoted fortnight ago to the rank of U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. Dillon's first objective: an increase in the reserves of the International Monetary Fund, which have not been raised generally since the fund was created in 1944, although inflation and rising world trade have cut in half the fund's effectiveness in keeping world currencies in balance. Although the fund squeaked through the currency crisis at the time of Suez, many fear that...
...quack, "a kind of super-pragmatist," tells Patient Horner: "It would not be well in your case to believe in God. Religion will only make you despondent. But until we work out something for you it will be useful to subscribe to some philosophy. Why don't you read Sartre and become an existentialist? . . . Study the World Almanac: it is to be your breviary for a while...
...tower cell of a saintly but simple character - the bellringer of Saint-Sulpice Church - where they dine and talk about theology. It all sounds very dull, and Durtal is not far off the mark when he confides that his book about Gilles de Rais will be "as tedious to read as to write." But Durtal's affair with the seductive Hyacinthe - widow of a manufacturer of chasubles and wife of an au thor of religious biographies - might be enough to put Là-Bas off the public shelves of most libraries. It is she who leads Durtal into...