Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enough to pay the stereotypers their highest scale anywhere in the U.S. (duplicated only in Detroit). In exchange, the paper asked the union to relinquish its uneconomic control over "base," the metal blocks on which engravings are laid. As it has been, a composing-room hand must take base blocks back to the stereotype department to be trimmed, even though he could easily trim them himself...
Fearful that the change might make less work for stereotypers, Leroy J. Selby, president of St. Louis Stereotypers Union No. 8, objected: "We have had these working conditions for over 35 years, and the publisher is trying to take them away." The walkout of his tiny local threw 3,000 out of work and left St. Louis without a daily newspaper...
Italy's 15 million fumetti fans-readers of the photographic romance magazines that take their name from the dialogue balloons-usually go for soap-opera plots. But last winter a Milan fumetto entrepreneur, Pino Vignal, scored a modest inaugural success -80,000 copies-with a fumetto magazine based on the Bible...
...this changed the A.M.A.'s public posture, it did not change the minds of some A.M.A. bigwigs. Los Angeles' Dr. E. Vincent Askey, newly chosen presidentelect (to take office in 1960, succeeding Florida's Dr. Louis M. Orr), insisted after the vote that just as inviolable as the patient's right to choose his physician is his right to reject one. To Dr. Askey, the freedom to choose a closed panel is no freedom...
...Take a Chance. Bach came to his eminence-he got nothing more material out of it than $758 a month-by love and toil. Born in Hollywood, the son of a building contractor, he started as a carpenter. Hating it, he wangled a job as a "second cameraman" errand boy at the old Fox movie studios. In 1925, hunting security (he has a wife and four children), Bach tried to peddle himself to seven Los Angeles high schools as a photography teacher. He was coldly turned down everywhere except at Fremont High. "I'll take a chance," the principal...