Word: produc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decade ago, TV Producer-Perform er David Susskind was generating some bright cultural rays with quality net work dramas and a provocative new talk show, Open End. At the same time, California Industrialist Norton W. Simon, president of Hunt Foods & In dustries', was making commercial his tory by buying up one new company after another. Since then, Susskind has been putting somewhat less emphasis on culture, and Simon has become in creasingly interested in it. Stung by a number of critically acclaimed produc tions that proved to be financial flops, Susskind has expanded into bread-and-butter situation shows...
...impedes synthesis of vitamin D, which prevents rickets and is manufactured from the sun's rays by the body. As early man migrated out of the tropical sun-into the green jungle, north to less torrid zones-light skin thereupon conferred an advantage by admitting more vitamin D-produc-ing sunlight. And the lottery of evolution, patiently awaiting the appropriate mutation, then fixed this advantage into place. Thus, over the centuries, environmental factors were producing genetic changes...
Time of Decision. But the year off seems to have been a time of decision for Gleason. Late in 1958, he took on a role as a serious actor - in a television produc tion of Saroyan's The Time of Your Life. To nearly everybody's astonishment, he was enormously impressive. Then Producer David Merrick asked him to play the blissfully besotted Uncle Sid in Take Me Along-the musical version of Eugene O'Neill's Ah! Wilderness. His collision with Merrick, whose ego matches his. was Homeric. "What's the highest straight salary ever...