Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sometimes they need real help. Counselor Schulman will ask for a social worker to cope with an alcoholic father, arrange an appointment with the project psychologist for children whose lives are impossibly tangled, or give out small sums from project funds to help buy food. One measure of his success: not one of the project's teen-agers has been in real trouble; normally 10% would have become chronic troublemakers...
...made big money (more than $10,000 a script). Like Ernie, he fired his old agent, although the separation was more or less amicable. Unlike Ernie, he is still happily married. Perhaps like Ernie, he feels harried by having to live up in every script to his first big success. Says he: "One of the basic problems in this industry is that it never trains people for success. Suddenly everything's all whipped cream and marshmallows and mink coats and swimming pools. You can't throw this down a gut and expect ready digestion. But to Ernie Pandish...
...Variety added up the year's income for Hollywood's top ten film and theater companies, reported that while the combined gross came to a whopping $1,102,500,000 for 1958, business was still off $26 million from the previous year. Most surprising success of the moviemaking year: Columbia's Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, which cost a mere $660,000, has taken in $6,000,000 since it opened in December. ¶ For a cool $75,000, Harold Minsky's burlesque show (38 girls, three comedians) flew to Chicago from Las Vegas' swank Dunes...
This publishing success would not impress the Japanese. Each month 680 poetry magazines with a combined circulation of 240,000 are printed in Japan. Toyo Keizai, a sort of Japanese Wall Street Journal, runs a haiku assortment every week. Hototogisu (Cuckoo), a haiku magazine founded in 1897, claims a substantial though private monthly circulation of 20,000. Japan's 500,000 practicing poets can win prize money from most of the metropolitan newspapers and from the Emperor himself. They write in all the classic forms, but the simple 17-syllable haiku, usually arranged in a 5-7-5 pattern...
...cause of his success is not just his billing as "the poet the Princess reads" (Margaret does). It is simply that Britons of all classes think Betjeman one of the pleasantest men alive. He himself says that he cannot understand why people buy his verse ("I don't call it poetry"), and he describes himself as "a passionate observer of the second-rate." Actually, Betjeman observes a great deal more than the second-rate. He has a unique eye for the twilight of changing times, although he is one Englishman who looks neither back in anger nor forward...