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...idea, but last week, at a National Education Association teachers' conference at Durham, N.H., some 500 of them came right out in the open. Why not pare vacation down to one month and keep the public schools open all year around. It would be one way to boost the salary of teachers, who now generally get paid for only nine months of work. The nation's 25 million public-school kids, it was admitted, would possibly need a bit of persuading...
Technically, what Harry Bridges' I.L.W.U. and the seven stevedoring companies were fighting over was a simple matter of dollars & cents. The stevedores wanted a pay boost of 32? an hour to $1.72, which they said would bring their wages closer to those paid on the mainland (West Coast longshoremen now earn $1.82 an hour). Management had offered, and then withdrawn, a raise of 12? an hour, refused to arbitrate. Harry Bridges' noisy West Coast mouthpieces,* sent to Hawaii for the negotiations, argued that a refusal to arbitrate proved that Hawaii's business interests were out to push...
...late Gertrude Stein was talking (in 1939) about a dapper British baronet who also happened to be an artist and close friend of hers: Sir Francis Cyril Rose. Coming from the shrewd old observer who had "discovered" Picasso, Stein's praise was a big boost for Rose's last London exhibition ten years ago; but not even Stein could then make Rose's work smell sweet to British critics. Last week things were different: Rose's new show at London's plush little Gimpel Fils Gallery had blossomed into a triumph...
...Trans-ocean Air Lines pilot circling 5,000 feet above the Radio City studio. (His thought was a commercial plug for the company.) These feats, Dunninger solemnly avers, were accomplished for the entertainment of TV audiences without the use of "supernatural powers." But they have given an almost supernatural boost to his Bigelow Show* (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., NBCTV) rocketing it from 19th to second place in the current Hooperatings...
...more than 1,000 sprawled under the sky in 45 states, and, with at least 100 more on the way, the sky seemed to be the limit. Last week, while indoor exhibitors gloomed over a 20% drop from last year's box-office take, Variety reported a 10% boost in drive-in business...