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...many non-union printers are either workers who lack enough skill to qualify for a union, or workers who have so much skill that they can command better wages in the open market than the union can negotiate. So, it seems difficult to compare wages for printers of fairly uniform skill levels to wages of non-union printers whose wages and skill levels range from one extreme to the other...
...there is one area in which admiration for Adams' work is universal: his command of tonal range on his prints. "The negative is the score," he says, "the print is the performance." Ad ams can do things with a print that are the despair of professional developers: his ability to bring out every nuance of tone within a shadow, gray overlapping black, so that each detail of form is both implicit and simultaneously present, is astounding. The difference of quality be tween an Adams print and one made by a studio from an Adams negative is just as evident...
Died. Donald Crisp, 93, Hollywood character actor for more than half a century; in Van Nuys, Calif. Crisp made his movie debut in 1906 doing muta-scopes (still pictures flipped before the viewer's eye). Second in command to Director D.W. Griffith on The Birth of a Nation (1915), Crisp directed the film's battle scenes and played the part of General Grant. In 1941 he earned an Oscar for portraying Mr. Morgan in How Green Was My Valley, his 135th film, then went on to make some 300 more movies. He appeared as Elizabeth Taylor...
...climbed Avital, one of three hills west of Quneitra, and looked across the flat plain that is Syria. It was easy to feel in the pit of your stomach why the hills mean so much to the Israelis. They command the entire plain. Suddenly, as if to confirm our musings, there were bursts of dirty smoke followed by bangs. The Syrian guns were at work, and the Israelis fired back. "It is an artillery war," explained an Israeli colonel...