Word: davids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...workers in U.S. steel mills want their union (membership: 1,250,000) to push for higher wages? Yes, of course, says the United Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald, getting ready to call a strike when present contracts run out in early summer. No, says doorbell-ringing Pollster Samuel Lubell, after interviewing steelworkers in ten cities around the U.S. "Of the steelworkers interviewed," reports Lubell this week for United Feature Syndicate, "five of every six are against further wage hikes...
...trouble with television." says TV Producer-Performer David Susskind, "is that nobody aspires to anything but money." (Personally, he ekes out his $100,000-a-year salary and expenses from his own package firm and draws an extra $100,000 from the annual profits.) The networks, he complains, are copycats, scorning new ideas in a race for the bandwagon. (But his own firm, Talent Associates, Ltd., has made its reputation with such tried old "original" offerings as The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Swiss Family Robinson and A Tale of Two Cities...
Happily for television, while David Susskind (rhymes with bus mind) talks and talks and talks, he is far too busy to listen to himself. He goes right on producing adaptations while claiming to prefer originals, bolsters his shows with big-name stars (a technique he says he deplores), and brightens a commendable number of evenings with some of the best, most tastefully produced shows television has to offer. Last week, while he prepared his own Open End talk show for New York's gabby Channel 13 and juggled projects that will keep him busy from Broadway to Hollywood well...
Frenetic & Familiar. Susskind's frenetic pursuit of both the television dollar and television quality has left many a competitor gasping in his wake. "Oh, I like David all right," says a Broadway pal, "but he's a Harvard version of What Makes Sammy Run?." The observation is unfair. Dave Susskind (5 ft. 9 in. by his own measurement) may not only be taller than Sammy, but he dresses more stylishly and talks in round, mellifluous tones. The observation is also chronologically inaccurate. David was running fast before he joined the Ivy League-fast enough to have married pretty...
...Crimson will nevertheless be hard put to come out on top tomorrow. Starters Shag Shaunessey, Ted Frembgen, and David Kiely will all be absent due to the general examination...