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...week's developments: ¶ The Theatre Guild got a well-pedicured toehold in the medium. The first of six Guild-NBC productions, a full-dress treatment of John Ferguson* was presented over NBC. Each play would require four weeks of production, unmentionable costs (mostly paid by NBC). Said Guildsman Lawrence Langner: "We want to communicate culture, not nonsense; to elevate television from the saloon to the living room...
...Allentown and other Pennsylvania towns, C.I.O. electioneers began ringing doorbells, collecting funds, shipping in union-supplied campaign material for congressional Candidate Phil Storch, an ex-reporter and Newspaper Guildsman on the Allentown Call. Candidate Storch got a formal endorsement from C.I.O. President Phil Murray...
When the Record died, Guildsman Evans took his idea to Harry Saylor, who had been the Record's editor. Saylor was enthusiastic...
...Guildsman Murray, "economy" was not the issue, since the three Washington PMers had been offered the same salary to work in the New York office. Ingersoll had insisted, to outsiders, that he was purging his staff of Communist-liners. But Murray, who became National Guild president in 1941 on a drive-the-Commies-out platform (and whose politics is several degrees to starboard of Ingersoll's), guessed that he had not followed Ingersoll's party line enthusiastically enough. Said he last week: "I'm going to take PM's prospectus, particularly that part about...
Reflection of Mirror atmosphere in recent months was the case of a regular Guildsman who wrote a sympathetic article on the anti-Communist best seller Out of the Night. Next day as he seated himself at the copy desk, a fellow writer held aloft a sheet of copy paper for him to read. On it was scrawled in big letters...