Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the Golden Gun, Fleming...
Every desert has its oasis. Television has George Schaefer. Now that Playhouse 90, the Alcoa Hour, Kraft Theater and Studio One have gone, Schaefer's Hallmark Hall of Fame is virtually the only greenery left. The other directors spawned in the golden days of live and tape television-Arthur Penn, Sidney Lumet, John Frankenheimer, et al.-have all gone to graze in the lusher pastures of Broadway or Hollywood. Only Schaefer still does business at the same old stand. For him 60 feet of studio space still offer acres of opportunity and fulfillment, as he proved with last week...
...what about The Kid Himself? Wolfe is 34 and the dirty golden thatch is beginning to recede. Speaking about some older writers on the Trib, he says, "They say those guys get paid off, but that's not it. They're old. They lose perspective. They get strangled synapses in the brain." Discussing one recent Tribune features star who got sacked, Wolfe laments, "He had a rugged drinking problem... Old men can't take that. Young men drink. Yes." Sometimes he talks rather wildly about looking forward to growing old, "Old men can really cut loose. You should see those...
Indeed not. The instinct for adventure and excitement remains. In Victorian England, with its relative wealth and opportunity for the leisured, complacent life, the compulsion for adventure was far from stifled; rather, it flared forth in a golden age of English exploration and mountaineering. Similarly, but even more so, many Americans of the 1960s refuse to react to prosperity as though it were the smoke from the poppy seed, and instead feel it as the thorn that goads them toward the bold, dangerous and somehow immensely satisfying fundamentals of existence...
...staffs of their own to search out possible merger mates. They also know that the cigarette manufacturers want to acquire food, beverage or candy firms as a hedge against the cancer scare; last week, for example, P. Lorillard (Kent, Old Gold) bought out San Francisco's Golden Nugget Sweets. They are aware that the oil companies yearn to buy into everything from fertilizers to polypropylene toys, and that the food companies are getting together with the beverage firms. National Biscuit, for example, has decided that things might go better with Coca-Cola; last week officials of the two companies...