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...STAN KOROTKIN Brooklyn...
...then tried to strike Douglas' plants at Santa Monica and El Segundo, demanding a blanket 9?-an-hour increase. Douglas offered 5?, and 13,000 El Segundo workers walked out. But at the main Santa Monica plant, Douglas' more experienced workers refused to let Local Union President Stan Decker stampede them, met to ballot on a strike. During the day, they had heard the plant loudspeaker repeat a telegram from Defense Secretary Robert...
Lovett ("Any stoppage of production . . . would have most serious consequences for our national defense"). When Union Boss Decker tried to hurry the vote, one member cried: "This ain't the night shift, Stan, they're the working boys." Cried another: "What about what Lovett said?" And another: "What about the boys in Korea?" In a secret ballot, the workers accepted Douglas' 5? offer, repudiated their union leaders...
Soapy's old Princeton buddy Stan Backus is a solid Republican, but last week he voiced a kind of pathetic bipartisan concern about the prodigy. "Today, when the class of '33 gets together, we talk about Soap," said Backus. "He's the guy who has done the most and gone the farthest. But I've stopped trying to explain him to my friends. For a while I would stand up for him and make excuses for his actions. But I can't any more. It's strange. We always looked to Soapy for ideals...
...Wiley Sings Irving Berlin and Vincent Youmans (with Stan Freeman and Cy Walter, duo-pianists; 2 Columbia LPs). Another longtimer, Songstress Wiley has a husky voice that breathes wistfully of the '20s. Her style is confidential; she picks the songs, both gay (Rise 'n Shine, Some Sunny Day) and melancholy (Suppertime, Time on My Hands), that are best suited to her voice...