Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week in New York's Astor Hotel, 275 delegates to the Guild's 26th annual convention gathered to measure improvements in the reporter's lot since those unorganized and impoverished days. By bread-and-butter standards, the improvements are impressive. Now 30,857 strong (about half editorial, half other categories), the Guild guarantees today's journeyman reporter a good minimum wage-$157.10 a week on the New York Daily News, $136 on the Los Angeles Herald-Express, $105 on the Indianapolis Times. And his security is as thoroughly bolted as any blue-collar compositor...
...Astor last week, conventioneers nominated New York Post Librarian Arthur Rosenstock, 56, to replace outgoing International President Joseph F. Collis, assistant managing editor of the Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) Record, reset their sights on a membership goal of 50,000, a minimum wage of $200 for experienced newsmen, and listened to a barrage of speeches by outside labor leaders, including one by Francis G. Barrett, New York local president of the International Typographical Union, urging one big union for all newspaper employees-editorial, mechanical, printing, etc. But hardly a word was heard about perfecting the reporter's craft, a function...
Born in 1904 to a New York socialite family of Swiss origin, Columbus came to his specialty by a combination of inheritance and intellectual curiosity. The family vocation was banking, but its avocation was sailing. His great-uncle, C. Oliver Iselin, was four times a defender of the America's Cup. ("He could afford it -he married two rich women," says Columbus.) His father, Lewis Iselin, sailed less gaudily but no less enthusiastically, racing Star boats on Long Island Sound...
Fels's hard-won conclusion: "Bennington College is a small, rural, private, experimental, women's college of high quality which emphasizes the development of the individual. It shares the cultural advantages of New York, Boston and Montreal. Its hill is moderately high. From it, on a clear day, you can just see, beyond the toilet paper factory, the historic Walloomsac River flowing northward away from Williamstown, where there is a small, rural, private, experimental college* of high quality for well-rounded...
...scene last week was The Embers in Manhattan, but it could have been anywhere along the big-time jazz belt that stretches from New York to Chicago's London House to The Sands in Las Vegas. Slowly the tide of conversation washes back through the murky rooms, slowly Jonah works his muted way through the numbers his fans want to hear-Rose Room, 76 Trombones, Too Close for Comfort, and his signature, Mack the Knife. Throughout, Jonah juggles the symbols of his success-the bagful of mutes through which he makes his trumpet whisper and wail, growl, shiver...