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LAW IN THE NEWS
Long-Term Contracts
Can Be Confining
By PHIL YEAGEK
and JOHN STARK
The long-term, high-pay con
tract makes important news
frequently. Not long ago, for
example, Miss Imogene Coca,
television commedienne, relin
quished her tie-up with the Na
tional Broadcasting Co.
NBC, it is reported, was guar
anteeing Miss Coca SIOO,OOO per
year for the next nine years for
her exclusive services.
Last year it was Jackie Glea
son. another TV luminary, who
concluded a 15-year deal with
the Columbia Broadcasting
System that was reputed to in
volve between sll million and
sl< million over that span.
■lt is difficult for most of us
ordinary mortals to understand
why the beneficiaries of such luc
rative contracts sometimes want
to ditch them. But they often 1
do.
Often Troublesome
Contracts of this sort have,
historically, caused a lot of
trouble—particularly when they
are held by men or women whose
services depend a great deal upon
their popularity with the public.
The public is fickle: popularity
wanes or waxes: the "star”
chafes at the legal restrictions
binding his talent: then one side
or the other wants out.
There is nothing illegal, how
ever, about tying up a per
former’s services, whether or not
they are rendered. That is. such
contracts may be enforced nega
tively. While no one can be
forced to give personal per
formance, since that would
amount to involuntary servitude,
he can be kept from providing
comparable services anywhere
else.
Some years ago this happened
to a well-known opera star who
decided she didn’t want to sing
TODAY IN MEDICINE
Ford, Once 'Nemesis/
Turns Hospital Santa
By JOHN McKELWAY
(Christmas, they say, is for little children. This, then, is ’
a Christmas story for little children, among others.)
Once upon a time, in the City of Washington, there was a
vacant lot that rested all alone in the middle of a block. Other
wise, the block was filled with red row houses.
Then, one day, it came to pass that a young hospital grew
up on the vacant lot. The hospital was a pretty young thing for
those days She had 14 floors, 300 beds and a brand-new boiler.
Everybody was proud of her. l
She helped children with tummy
aches and older people who had
this or that patched up or re
moved.
The hospital was very happy.
The people who made a lot of
money usually left some of it
to the hospital when they passed;
on. She was very comfortable
and it felt good helping people
and reducing, when she could,
the pain of their troubles.
But there was one thing that,
irritated the young lady. Next
door there lived a little, noisy i
Model T car. The Model T used
to make loud noises .hen it
started up and went by. Its
cranky horn would disturb the
hospital. It might be said the
two never really got along.
Sign Requests Quiet
Finally, the hospital, which
was kind by nature but could
get mad if pushed far enough,',
got mad at the Model T. She
put out a sign on the sidewalk.
The sign had big black letters
and said “QUIET.” Though the
sign didn't say so. it was meant
for the young automobile.
But being as young as the hos
pital—but not as responsible—.
the car felt gay most of the time.
And when he saw the sign he
took one look and backfired and
tooted his horn anyway.
As the years went by, the little]
car—which now was much larger!
and heavier—got under the hos-l
pital’s skin. But. as a matter!
of fact, the hospital was finding
many more things were getting
under her skin. She had less and
less time; she was always busy;
her nurses would get mad and
her doctors would storm down
the hall. And one time a patient
complained about a bill. And
the people who made money were
leaving it all to something called
the Government when they
passed on.
One night the hospital looked
around. It looked down the block
and found the row houses gone
and big office buildings in their
place. And she looked at herself
and found she was old and worn
out. Her boiler was rusty; every
body who worked at the hospital
wanted more money, the doctors
wanted more equipment and
they said they couldn’t even find
a parking place when they came
to call on her.
Hat Passed for Funds
So the hospital decided she
would build, but she didn’t have
any money. So she passed the
bat and people gave—but not
all the people. All she was able
to do was fix the boiler.
About that time, here came the
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for the company that had her
; under contract.
Ballplayers, Too
Larry Lajoie, great second
baseman for the Cleveland In
dians, had a similar experience
when he wanted to switch ball
clubs. In both cases the prin
cipals were prevented from per
forming for other employers.
As a rule, however, such con
tracts are limited to a particular
type of service. In other words,
if Miss Coca wanted to quit NBC
to open an antique shop or if
Mr. Gleason wanted to quit CBS
to become a dentist, there would
be nothing to stop them (except
a possible damage suit if the
networks felt so inclined). But
“entertaining” for another boss
would be taboo without the con
sent of the other contracting
party.
TH# nut article in this itriti will ap
pear Wednesday.
,!
!little car again. He had moved
out in the Northwest section and
he had changed. He was all
flashy now, side pants and
chrome. He slid by noiselessly
and when he came by the hos
pital he grinned and blew his
horn again—but now it was a
blast. As the hospital watched
him sjfeed down the street she
cried.
"Why can’t I advance as the
Model T has done?” she sobbed
to herself —somewhat surprised
jat her choioe of words.
Then one time, when Christ-;
mas was near—it was 1956
the hospital sat and stared at the
lovely blueprints of an out
patient clinic she was never to
have. And she heard the car
again.
She saw him coming down the
1 road and he was wearing a smile
—but a different smile from the
■ one he used to wear in the old
days.
And this time he turned up her
. driveway and stopped. He didn’t
; blow his horn.
j “What do you want?” the hos
pital asked him.
Henry Plays Sants
; "Nothing .. . nothing at all,”
I said the Model T, which was now
| a Thunderbird. And still smiling,
,|he opened his trunk and taking
! out a great bag similar to the
lone Santa carries, he dropped it
. on the doorstep of the hospital.
Then he sped away—and he
;;didn’t toot his horn.
| There in the bag, the hospital
; found, was a brand-new out
jj patient clinic, a new X-ray de
partment and a whole new surgl
, cal suite
I ‘Well, upon my word,” said the
, hospital, who was an old lady
j now, “just what I wanted.”
, And on a card inside the bag
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SCIENCE
CALENDAR
Science and technical society
meetings have been announced
for this week by the Joint
Committee on Press Relations
of the District of Columbia
Council of Engineering and
Architectural Societies and
the Washington Academy of
Sciences.
Tuesday
Washington Audio Society. 8
pm. meeting, National Bureau
of Standards.* “A Note On the
Use of the Case ode as a Low-
Noise Amplifier,” by H. Peter
Metslnger. Laboratory of Elec
tronic Engineering, and “A Low-
Distortion, Cable-Compensating
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GOING LIKE 60
Programs Set
For Holidays
At 2 o’clock on Wednesday at
ithe Cleveland Park Branch Li
brary the Going Like Sixty pro
. gram will be “The Festivals of
I New Year’s” and a new color
film, “The Spirit of Christmas.”
The new Going Like Sixty
programs for the new year at
Mt. Pleasant, Cleveland Park
' and South East Branch Libraries
; will be ready for distribution the
; first week in January. If you are
’ not on the list and want a pro
’ gram, phone United Community
' Services, and if you need a list
• of where all the Golden Age and
1 Super Sixty Clubs meet, ask for
that also.
’ All these forms of entertain
| ment cost only your carfare, and
! perhaps some are in your neigh
borhood and you will enjoy
walking to them.
(Prepared by the Committee on Aitnr.
United Community Service* )
Regional Center
Gives 1,568 Pints
Os Blood in Week i
The Washington Regional
Blood Center distributed 1,568
pints of the life-giving fluid last
! week.
In the District, 815 pints were
distributed: in Maryland, 192;
Virginia, 433: West Virginia, 68.
Sixty pints were distributed out
side the area.
Red Cross dohors may give
blood at Garfield Hospital daily
from 8 a.m. to 5 pm., Mondays
through Fridays; at Freedmen’s
I Hospital, 1-8 p.m.. Mondays
through Fridays, and on Sunday
' afternoons from 2-5 p.m.; at
1 Walter Reed Hospital, Mondays
; through Fridays. 9 am. to 4
p.m., and Tuesday evenings from
7 to 9 o'clock; the Washington
' Regional Blood Center, Tues
days through Friday. 9 a.m. to
5 p.m.
Bloodmobiles are scheduled to
make the following visits in the
coming week, starting at 10 a.m.,
unless otherwise indicated:
Tu««d»»—District of Columbia Chap
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iroom 2MI. 9:30 am to 3:31) pm;
Alexandria Chapter. Chapter hotua, tul
. Duke afreet. Alexandria. Va.
Wednesday District of Columbia
1 Chapter: Pentaaon. room 4A 75ti. Fair
ifax County: Episcopal Church. Hern
don. Va.
Thursday—Fairfax County- Fort Bel
votr. Va Building KN.'M. 9:30 am. to
■ 3:30 pm ; Prince Georges County: Fed
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eraohtc. Sultland. Md . 9:30 am. to
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Friday—Fairfax County: Lorton Re
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i Ali Khan Gems Stolen
NICE, France, Dec. 24 UP).—
' Police reported today a thief
-.broke into the villa of Ali Khan
yesterday and stole jewels and
cash valued at *1,300. The
Moslem prince was away at the
time,
were the words: “Merry Christ
, mas, Henry.”
! With a tear in her eye. the old
; lady walked out to the street and
t took the “QUIET” sign down.
For a minute, she thought she
: heard bells—not a horn—in the
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To Keep Peace
In Near East
Continued From First Page
ous Arab leaders” have begun to
realize that they must live with
Israel. They may even be willing
I to make some sacrifice to do It.
i But when It comes to cases, the
i most substantial sacrifice any;
• Arab leader will admit being
: ready to make is giving up his
• determination to destroy Israel
- altogether.
j Formula Is Difficult
[ It is clear enough that Col.
Nasser, in conversation with
Western ambassadors, has taken
a more moderate line In recent!
weeks than has been reflected!
In the official Egyptian radio and!
, press. Nevertheless, it is hard
, to escape the impression that
what the Arabs might accept as
a reasonable settlement would
stop well short of anything even
remotely acceptable to Israel. j
British Prime Minister Eden’s
■ hope for a compromise on the
- question of Israel’s frontiers finds!
f little encouragement here. The
r suggestion that Col. Nasser might;
, be ready to yield on his demand
that Israel be confined to the!
t boundaries laid down by the
t United Nations in 1947 is firmly
i rejected by well-informed Egypt-!
s ians. From all appearances, the
: gerrymandering division of Pal
: estine recommended by the U. N.
• before the fighting started—and
’ which now would require Israel
t to give up nearly one-third of its!
1 territory—remains Egypt’s ba.4ic
r price for a settlement.
This in itself, the Egyptians
. argue, represents a tremendous
1 concession on their part, beyond
. which they cannot go. It is quite
i wrong, you are told, to look fori
a compromise between the 1947
an< * P re sent boundary
The compromise should be drawn
rather between the present line
and the original Arab demand—
that Israel should not exist at all.
The fact that these same U. N.
resolutions were denounced by
the Arab states in 1947. and that
an * ttack was launched forth
-1 on the new st «te, makes no
( difference. Neither does the re
t j? ln< * er that both Jordan and
Esypt have extended their own
territory as the result of the war
by assimilating part of what the
u. N. planned as a separate Arab
; state in Palestine. That Israel
holds its present boundary be
, F aus ? of military action started
oy the Arabs apparently makes
its acceptance all the more in-,
tolerable. As one Egyptian put
it simply: “If Israel really wants
peace, she had better forget she
' won that war."
i Million Refugees a Problem
I Tb* Egyptian position on thei
i other main stumbling block to
i a settlement Is hardly more
. promising. The fate of nearly
i 1 million Arab refugees, held In
camps close to the Israeli fron
tier, is linked firmly to the de-|
, mand for a radical border ad- 1
' ‘Justment.
Here again a kind of com
. promise has been made. “Seri
: ous Arabs” in private conversa- !
tions no longer argue that all of
, these refugees should be re
! turned to Israel. Indeed, they
admit that most of them, if
i offered the opportunity to return
; to their former homes, would
> refuse if it meant submitting to!
. the jurisdiction of the Israeli
government. 1
At the same time, they reject
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the suggestion that this same
homeless horde could be reset
tled elsewhere In the Arab world
—say In Syria where large tracts
are blng reclaimed for farming,
or Iraq where land and oppor
tunity far exceed population.
The solution, they say, Is to wait
until Israel accepts the 1947
frontier, at which time the refu- 1
gees can be resettled In the land
thus restored to Its rightful
Arab owners.
J It Is clear enough that if the
odds on an agreement are any
thing like even, these Arab de
mands will have to be radically
modified in the course of nego
tiation, if not abandoned alto
gether. Quite apart from what
the Israelis might accept, they
do not correspond even approxi
mately with the kind of a settle
ment which the Western powers
seem to have In mind.
Proposals Discussed
Although its exact terms are
still carefully swathed In diplo
matic wrappings, several fea
tures of a compromise solution
being peddled by the allies are
openly discussed here. Among
them: An adjustment of Israel’s
southwest border with Egypt
through which the Israelis would
give up a strip “several miles
wide” of still largely undeveloped
Negev desert region.
In addition. Israel’s blockaded
port on the Gulf of Aqaba would
be “internaitonallzed” possibly
under U. N. control and Egypt
would be given a free land link
with its neighboring Arab states
to the north. Beyond this, other
minor border adjustments would
i made to "rationalize” the
truce line where villages have
been cut off from their fields,
orange groves and the like.
It could be, of course, that
Ambassadors are told one thing
and newspaper reporters an
: other. At any rate, this re
porter was told with emphasis
ijthat Egypt would prefer 50 years
of the present situation rather
than accept such settlement.:
■ Much as he may want peace.
■ it seems. Col, Nasser could never
1 afford to have it on these terms.
Undoubtedly, a settlement
! with Israel would improve
Egypt’s relations with the West,
help to free Egypt from the
burden of military dictatorship
and open up new horizons for
social and economic progress.
But there are some disadvan
tages, too. In a position of grow
ing strength, with both East and
West competing to co-operate
■with him. it would not be un
natural for Col. Nasser to be
lieve that time is on his side.
As long as the struggle with
Israel provides the real cement
of the Arab League, solidifies
Egypt's position of Arab leader
ship and bolsters the internal
security of the regime, peace
,with Israel may seem something
of a mixed blessing.
Such reflections, of course, do
not jibe very well with the cur
rent mood of hopefulness in
Washington and London. There
is an atmosphere of optimism
here too. based on the belief that
Egypt, now for the first time,
seems willing to consider the
possibility of some kind of set
tlement with Israel. But given
.the basic attitudes which still
! prevail and the terms which
Egypt demands, perhaps a little
realism Is no crime, either.
Spy Ring Broken
Eight persons, including six
Royal Pakistani Air Force per
sonnel, have been arrested In
Karachi, charged with illegal
spying. Vital information on
Pakistan’s armed forces was be
ing supplied to the Indian High
Commissioner there, it was al
leged. I
THC WEEK IN RELIGION
Russian Clerics End
Cool Visit to Canada
By Ralifloui Neva Scrrlea
Archbishop Boris, Exarch ot the Moscow Patriarch for North
and South America, has returned to Russia after a two-week
visit to Canada.
He headed a three-man delegation that toured several cities
under the auspices of the United Church of Canada. The other
members were Archpriest Constantin Ruzhltsky, rector of the
Moscow Theological Seminary, |
and Anatole Gorbachev, a lay
man described as an inspector of
the seminary.
The archbishop, who has had
his troubles with our State De-{
partment, did not find the going
1 entirely smooth in Canada.
That country has many Russian
exiles, particularly from the
, Ukraine where both the Catholic
'. and Orthodox Churches have
. been severely persecuted. And
i they were not particularly sym
, pathetic to statements by Boris
that religious freedom exists in
! Russia.
The Russian delegation had
lan odd flavor from the start. It!
; originally was to have been a
four-man group. But. without 1
■explanation, Bishop Paladeus of
1 Volynsk and Rovensk failed to
I appear.
'j Last-Minute Substitution
. Archbishop Boris was not
■ scheduled as a member of the*
. delegation at all. The chairman'
I was supposed to have been
. Archbishop Nicolai of Krutitskyi
, and Kolomna, second-ranking
, Prelate of the Moscow Patriarch
ate. But Archbishop Boris was
substituted for him at the last
moment—also without explana
1, tion.
. The party arrived in Montreal
. from the Soviet Union on De
. cember 4. On November 13, our
. State Department canceled a
Ivisa1 visa 11 had issued 13 days earlier
to Archbishop Boris to enter the'
. United States. Perhaps Moscow
wanted the Archbishop to keep
; close to the United States—just!
Mn case the State Department
changed its mind. Or perhaps
; the Russians wanted to empha
- size the archbishop’s role as
! exarch for North an<j South
America.
The State Department refused
to permit Archbishop Boris to
! enter the United States for an!
| indefinite stay to exercise his
Phenix City, Ala.,
May Change Name
COLUMBUS. Ga., Dec. 24 UP).
, A move to change the name of
Phenix City, Ala., to just plain
may get underway in
No action has been taken on
1 the project, according to Otis
Tass. president of the Phenix!
City-Russell County Chamber of
Commerce.
But. he said, “there has been
a little discussion of it.”
t Mr Tass added. "I haven’t
! talked to enough people to find
out their feelings on the change.”
A number of sources have
recommended the change as a
means of ridding the town of
Its old reputation as a vice city.
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role as exarch, which would put
him at the head of an American
'church comprising a small group
.of Russian Orthodox parishes
■ that still recognize the authority
of the Moscow Patriarch.
Upon their arrival In Montreal
the three Russian churchmen
were faced with a group of more
than 100 Ukrainian and French
Canadian veterans who stam
peded the airport and attempted
to distribute pamphlets object
ing to the visit.
Cut Length of Visit
On the train from Montreal
to Toronto the delegation an
nounced to Dr. Ernest E. Long,
secretary of the United Church
of Canada, that they would have
to cut the visit from three weeks
to two.
In Toronto, two Ukrainian
Catholic priests, acting on the
authority of their bishop, wrote
to the United Church asking if.
they could meet the Russians
and discuss the case of Greek
Rite Catholic Archbishop Joseph
Slipyi of Lwow (Lemberg) and
seven bishops who are in Siber
ian prisons.
Archbishop Boris had suffered
a chill and could not see the
priests but sent word through a!
United Church official that he
would place the matter before
the Holy Synod of the Russian
Orthodox Church.
The two priests inclosed a
statement with their letter charg
ing that Father Ruzhltsky, a
> member of the delegation, was
one of the masterminds behind
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the abolition of the Ukrainian
Greek Rite Catholic Church.
This church was liquidated in
1946 and pressure was exerted
upon its clergy to renounce the
Pope and switch their allegiance
to Patriarch Alexei of Moscow.
This attempt reportedly failed.
Russian Tour Protested
Next stop for the three Rus
sians was Ottawa, where they
participated, among other ac
tivities, in services at United
Church congregations. Outside
16 united churches, pamphlets
! were distributed by Ukrainian
i Catholics, Orthodox Church
members and others protesting
the presence of the Russians in
the city.
1 “Do not believe the Commu
-1 nists' lies.” the pamphlets read.
“They have already pulled the
1 wool over the eyes of other na
-1 tions and are trying to do like
wise here.”
In Hamilton, Ontario, a
Ukrainian Orthodox priest
charged that the visit of the
Russian churchmen was little
more than a secret police proj
ect. “As far as we are concerned,’*
! he said, "they might just as well
! be Russian secret police in dis
’ guise.”
The Russian delegates then
took off for Edmonton, Alta.,
wheie Archbishop Boris told
; newsmen, in reply to a question,
that he is not a Communist. He
; said he had no complaints about
the system of government in
Russia since the revolution.
The Soviet prelate said he still
hoped to get into the United
States. He was quoted as telling
I reporters. “I believe in God and
the devil was never stronger
.. than God.”
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