Incredulous

In its strike against the Brooklyn Eagle, the New York Newspaper Guild refuses to say die. Even though the paper was put out of business by the strike and its equipment sold at public auction (TIME, May 23), union pickets still parade outside the Eagle building, as they have every day since the strike closed down the paper nearly five months ago. Said a Guild announcement last week: "The Newspaper Guild believes . . . that the Brooklyn Eagle is not dead [because the] publisher may still have secret plans to go back into business." Next day Eagle Publisher Frank D. Schroth made an announcement of his own: he has taken a job on the New York Daily News helping the paper boost its Brooklyn circulation.

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