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A.F.L.'s Johnny, who dominates West Coast shipping (C.I.O. dominates the East) watched all this with interest. A.F.L.'s seamen's unions have enjoyed a slightly higher wage scale than the Communist-dominated C.I.O. maritime union. But this boost put C.I.O. out ahead. The A.F.L. bosses howled for a boost too. They threatened to strike. They ordered occasional work stoppages so everyone would get the idea...
...strikers were about 12,000 A.F.L. truck drivers who work for general hauling contractors. Out in sympathy were some 15,000 drivers in nearby New Jersey cities. The issue: a demand for a 30% pay increase (present scale...
...only is conchophily a rare passion, but membership in the British Snail-Watching Society is rigorously limited to those devotees who take snails with high seriousness. "Lying in the grass, just watching, is not sufficient," says Heaton. The complete conchophilist must know snails in their nocturnal ramblings-as they scale the Himalayas of a graveled garden walk, patiently penetrate the jungles of a zinnia border, or chew the bloom off prize winning Gloire de Dijon roses...
Movie background music has come a long way since the days when a loud chord went with a slammed door, a descending scale with a man falling downstairs. Whether it has gone far enough to be music in its own right, few music critics are willing to assert. But last week two scores by Hollywood's No. 1 sound-track composer, Miklos Rozsa, were fast-moving items. His Spellbound Concerto, adapted from his Oscar-winning music for Spellbound, had sold 100,000 sets at $4 each; his Lost Weekend music was one of Victor's top ten "semi...
Author Cecil considers Hardy "the last English writer to be built on the grand Shakespearean scale." Readers, argues Cecil, may be overcritical of Hardy's often cumbersome, melodramatic writing if they fail to grasp that his work was modeled on the Elizabethan drama-on the wild and stormy tragedy of King Lear and The Duchess of Malfi rather than on he carefully constructed novel form of a Tolstoy or a Jane Austen. They may also become impatient with his pessimism if they do not realize that, unlike his great Elizabethan predecessors, Hardy was a reluctant atheist...