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Jacqueline Leonhard's first efforts to do something about all this got short shrift from her male colleagues. They not only kept voting her down ("My friends began calling me Four-to-One"), they once even walked out on her and held a caucus in the men's room. "It just burned me up," says she. "I told them that if they ever tried that again, I was going to walk right into the men's room myself and join the meeting." From that day on, the board began to realize that nothing was likely to stop...
...Prof. Levin's introductory remarks ("bridge the gap between drama on the page and drama on the stage"), they must have expected a firsthand account of the problems of directing and staging some of the best movies and plays of recent years. Instead they were treated to a public shrift and absolution. Interspiced with a running account of the intellectual woes of one of the top paid directors of show business...
...Short Shrift for Plea...
Last week Cleveland's Federal Judge Emerich B. Freed gave the defense short shrift. He could "not conceive" that freedom of the press was even involved in the case. The Horvitz brothers, he found, had made a "bold, relentless and predatory" attempt to establish a monopoly, had rejected advertising "solely ... to force these advertisers not to [use] an available mode of communication." Judge Freed found the Horvitz brothers, Business Manager D. P. Self, Editor Frank Maloy and the Journal guilty of a civil violation of the Sherman Act. In announcing that he would restrain the from rejecting advertising...
Travis denied the charges, declared that the hearing was a "kangaroo court." But C.I.O. President Philip Murray gave him short shrift. He threw Mine-Mill out of the C.I.O. and, after similar bills of particulars, threw out the Office and Professional Workers, the Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers, the Public Workers. With the big United Electrical Workers and the Farm Equipment Workers already purged (TIME, Nov. 14), Murray had only a few more corners to clean: Harry Bridges' Longshoremen's union, the Marine Cooks' & Stewards', the Fishermen, the Fur and Leather Workers, the Furniture Workers...