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...issues, private and public, find reconciliation in the climax as the com pany gives up and the workers win. The dice, without doubt, are loaded. Every boss who crosses the screen is either a sleek deceiver or a leering flunky, and the police are slavish doers of the corporate will. Nevertheless, the film, within the propagandistic limits it sets, is a work of vigorous art. It is crowded with grindingly effective scenes, through which the passion of social anger hisses in a hot wind; and truth and lies are driven before it like sand...
Second, the investigations under com- pulsion, in so far as they inquire into political beliefs and associations, contravene the First and Fifth Amendments, as well as the intent of the Constitution as a whole. As one who has pledged, and who gives unqualified loyalty to that Constitution. I must, therefore, do everything in my power to bring about the abolition of those investigations...
...alternately brusque and limpid Sonata for Piano Four Hands by Harold Shapero, a crisp woodwind Quartet in C by Arthur Berger, both of Brandeis University; a series of gay brevities called Music for a Farce by Author-Composer Paul (The Sheltering Sky) Bowles. All were recorded under the com posers' personal supervision, a sometimes questionable practice that here results in some good performances...
...good: stockholders eased him out last year as board chairman of both the Central of Georgia and Norfolk Southern. He is currently engaged in a fight with Frederic C. ("Buck") Dumaine Jr. for control of the New Haven (TIME, Feb. 15). Last week the Interstate Commerce Com mission issued a lengthy report on McGinnis' management of the Norfolk Southern which helped to explain his failure to hang on to his railroad jobs: ¶ Board Chairman McGinnis and three other top officials paid themselves "inordinate, extravagant and . . . wasteful" total salaries and fees, ranging from...
...teamsters 4% for their money. Explained "Banker" Beck: "We've got more than $29 million in the union kitty, and we're going to put it where it will provide the best return to serve the cause of responsible trade unionism ..." The Fruehauf deal, Beck believes, com bines good investment sense with good unionism. He likes the way Roy Fruehauf has fought for uniform truck and trailer size and weight regulations. Besides, the union is getting 4% for its money instead of the 2¼% it got when the money was in Government bonds...