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Please print more of Eric Johnston's faces (TIME, April 9). He is the greatest jollier in this hemisphere. . . . His face is beautiful as a heavenly angel's and when he turns on his smile it would set the heart of a wooden Indian on fire-which would ruin the Indian. Look how he slipped the leading halters on to Phil Murray and Bill Green, and made them drink too. So, for him they both swore that black was white! Anyhow, he got them to agree for once. Please do print more of his faces...
Sporadic Shakespeare Festivals at Stratford go back as far as 1769. Since becoming an annual tradition, they have not only given the Bard perhaps his fullest hearing anywhere, but have taxed the talents of actors such as Sarah Bernhardt (as Hamlet), Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, and Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. And they have meant pageantry as well as playacting...
Glittering Mr. Johnston smoothly turned away any suggestions that the ultimate aim of the new board is to replace the War Labor Board. But both labor & management were well aware that the group, if it is to be anything more than a sounding board for pious platitudes, will have to take a hand in the shaping of any national labor policy by Congress...
...Washington's Chamber of Commerce Building, in the eye-winking glare of flash bulbs, three men signed their names to what may be a historic document. The men: U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Eric Johnston, C.I.O. President Philip Murray and A.F. of L. President William Green. The document: a labor-management charter for industrial peace in the postwar world...
...long as the N.A.M. and its approximate 12,500 businessmen withheld its support of the charter, its effectiveness was hobbled. But Johnston, Murray et al. have a sound reason for hoping that N.A.M., at least, will soon stop sulking and join them. It is the same reason that induced them to put their heads together. Unless business and labor resolve their quarrels, they are keenly aware that the Federal Government might step in with controls which would strait-jacket both...