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...Scab!" went up as a nonstriking editorial or business staffer darted into the dark, gloomy recesses of the W-T & S. A picket dangled a SCAB sign over a nonstriker while a photographer snapped him for the strikers' daily, two-page Guild Telegram & Sun. After their stint, Joan and some other pickets fanned out to cover their regular W-T & S beats for the strikers' 15-minute daily "radio newspaper," Seven Star Final, on three New York stations five nights a week. Once a week, strikers dropped into headquarters, in a doll factory, to collect benefits...
...Mother's got to work," mused Dorothy Parker, speaking of herself. "Mother hasn't written anything since the New England Primer." Author Parker, 56, rhymester-wit of the '20s (Enough Rope), more recently a scenarist (The Fan), was back in Manhattan after a long stint in Hollywood ("Two years out there and you'd go anywhere") and a three-month vacation in the tiny Mexican village of Acapantzingo, where she found the Indians magnificent and the countryside "beautiful, terrifying. . . I felt that I could live and die there, but I realized that I was doing neither...
...Coach Stuffy McInnis, who got his first win over Yale. Godin, master throughout, gave up only three hits, and set a new strikeout record for the College, 319 for his three years. Godin broke his own mark of 307, fanning 12 in his nine inning stint...
Most of the minions of the local press, and for that matter most of the world at large thinks that the two week stint of the Harvard crew at Red Top, Conn, is something of a vacation in an exclusive country club, a vacation in which the only requirement of the oarsmen is that they keep things on the up and up by rowing a couple of miles each day. This impression is usually strengthened by a look at the facilities at Red Top, with its rolling lawn, eroquet field, and five shiny white buildings. Consequently, it is indeed unfortunate...
Slim, elegant Managing Director Pierre Brisson, 54, who joined Le Figaro in 1934 after a stint as drama critic for Le Temps, has found it easy to laugh off such attacks by the opposition. Since 1945 Le Figaro's circulation has doubled to 400,000. Not so funny, however, has been the opposition from another source-Le Figaro's owner, Mme. Yvonne Cotnareanu, former wife of the late Perfumer François Coty...