Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Diamond is a practitioner of a medium which began fading before she started in it. (Demand for individual strippers remains high, however. There'll always be Elks convertions and nightclubs.) Most of the pros in the show seem to have been resurrected, or haven't admitted that the circuit ever stopped and still play the surviving houses here and there. But the good old days, like the beauty of the queens who reigned then, are gone forever, and she was never part of them...
First-Night Feeling. His secret is neither the fire of genius nor the flash of inspiration. Others may be more daring and original; they have streaked like comets across the screen and disappeared. Schaefer has lasted for 13 years and may go on for 13 more. For in a medium run by networks and advertising agencies, he has something more potent than mere brilliance: organization...
...McDonald: "I fought I told ya to wait in da car." He ran his luck through nearly 150 movie roles, but by 1941 gangster parts were declared bad for the image of a nation at war. As the clean-cut types moved in, Leonard moved out to the one medium where he could be heard but not seen: radio...
Just for laughs, Jack Benny, Judy Canova, Phil Harris all used him-usually as the voice of a sleazy racetrack tout. But Kiss-of-Death Leonard, as he was beginning to be called, soon found himself in still another dying medium. Radio was moribund, television was thriving and once again Leonard was jobless. He had no compunction about trying his hand at TV scriptwriting. "The minimum price in those days was $550 for a half-hour show," Leonard recalls. "No respectable writer would sell for that, but I would." Leonard was no Paddy Chayefsky, but he was cheap...
...bankers who bring off mergers stand to collect handsome fees: about 1 % of the purchase price on a huge deal or 3% on a medium-sized one. To earn this the broker contributes copiously of his savvy, research and time. The merger talks between American Home Products and Ekco Products (pots and pans) dragged on for five years, but were well worth the effort for the merger broker. On that $163 million deal, Lehman Bros, collected...