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...production of The Student Prince went before the cameras after a two-year delay precipitated by the temperamental walkout of pudgy Tenor Mario Lanza. The film will star British Newcomer Edmund Purdon, no singer, who will act out the songs, with gestures, to the sound-track voice of Lanza, who recorded the songs before he left the studio. Said Actor Purdon: "When I first heard [Lanza's recording], I thought it was full of excesses and a bit hammy. He sings as if he were in perpetual ecstasy. Then I realized how good that is because it gives...
...walkout touched off a flurry of speculation about the real reasons behind it. Some cynics guessed that Big Bill wanted a free hand to go raiding. A more sinister explanation was that Hutcheson planned to join up with the Mine Workers' John L. Lewis to form the core of a new labor federation (dubbed the "Phantom Phederation" in labor shoptalk). Said a member of the executive committee: "I see the fine hand of John L. Lewis in this...
Whatever Hutcheson was up to, his walkout had an important result. It led to the election to the executive council of Dave Beck, tough, ambitious boss of the 1,400,000-strong International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers. When ist Vice President Bill Hutcheson departed, the twelve other v.p.s each moved up a notch, leaving a vacancy at the bottom. As head of the biggest A.F.L. union, Beck was an obvious choice. But the machinists' Al Hayes had been promised the next opening. Upshot: compromise. Beck became the 13th vice president, and Hayes' hopes were kept...
...walkout of the 500-man union began May 7 as protest against Yale's refusal to grant their four point program for a ten cents an hour across-the-board wage hike, double time for Sundays, union shop, and limitation of student employment...
Little disturbance was reported during the two-week walkout which involved power plant employees, the maintenance crew, and janitors and maids. Picketing was only partially effective, since delivery service employees refused to honor it. The only minor incident was the arrest of a picket for disturbing the peace as he tried to block deliveries to the power plant...