Word: proprietorships
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...such as Bonanza and Dragnet or low-IQ sitch-coms on the order of Beverly Hillbillies and Bewitched. The only steady programs that offer the hope of entertainment are Old Standbys Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Ed Sullivan and Dean Martin-and movies, for which TV can claim no creative proprietorship. The only spice in the schedules are the sporadic specials, many of which are first class; to their credit, the networks next season will produce 300 such programs, including two Truman Capote adaptations on ABC, and at least four newly commissioned works on CBS Playhouse. About half of the specials...
...Frontiersmen in the White House and the torpid bureaucracies. "The Presidential government, coming to Washington aglow with new ideas and a euphoric sense that it could not go wrong, promptly collided with the feudal barons of the permanent government, entrenched in their domains and fortified by their sense of proprietorship." The result, he said, was that the permanent government "began almost to function as a resistance movement, scattering to the Maquis to pick off the intruders...
Considerate in a Way. B.F.G.'s labor proprietorship is symbolized by its board of supervisors, which is headed by German Trade Union Federation Boss Ludwig Rosenberg, 61, one of the few Jews now in high positions in Germany, and studded with the names of other labor leaders. The bank is actually run by easygoing President Walter Hesselbach, a professional banker who has never worn a blue collar, usually arrives at work an hour late "so that I don't disturb my colleagues in their morning chat and coffee hour." Such considerate treatment by Hesselbach extends only...
...Motorola's shiny Franklin Park, Ill., headquarters, where even the chairman works in shirtsleeves, he sees division heads intermittently, allows them full rein to handle engineering, production and sales and make significant decisions. "The most important factor motivating a manager," says Galvin, "is his sense of proprietorship. The man who is given the greatest hand to determine his own destiny will try the hardest. It is fair to say that this is a rather different approach to management." It is also fair to say that Bob Galvin is a different sort of boss...
...Tammen, his partner, built the Post into the gaudiest and most successful daily west of the Mississippi. Before Mrs. Davis' outraged eyes, Outsider Newhouse had committed two unpardonable sins. One was to covet her father's paper, about which Mrs. Davis harbors a passionate sense of proprietorship. The other Newhouse sin was to buy his 15% from Helen's older sister, May Bonfils Stanton...