Word: succession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Truth was that the rebels' only chance of success was the expectation that other areas all over Indonesia would unite with them in massive opposition to President Sukarno. The other areas held back. Even Sumatra itself proved no more united as an island than Indonesia is as a country...
...normal round of pre-Easter holy days and holidays will give him a natural assist in closing down the country. The rebel chieftain has long delayed his big move in the hope of winning over enough of organized labor, still officially pro-Batista, to ensure the strike's success. But now he faces another problem: if he postpones the big push again, his Havana network, which must lead the strike, may be fatally weakened by mass arrests and killings...
...Success on the Tundra. The man who built up the world's biggest nightclub is a 47-year-old Brooklynite named Ben Maksik, and he built it from a hot dog stand. When he was cleaned out of the real-estate business by the Depression, Maksik borrowed $200, slapped together a wooden frankfurters-and-Coke stand, gradually expanded it into a nightclub by acquiring a jukebox, liquor and cabaret licenses and a dance floor. Two and a half years ago he borrowed $1,000,000, built his present colossus. The logistics of its operation, he soon found, were staggering...
Despite his success on the Brooklyn tundra, Maksik is a chronic worrier who believes that sooner or later his storied "Child's with music and a minimum" is bound to go the way of all the big clubs. "I'm in this business 21 years, and everyone always calls me a success, but how come I'm always borrowing money?" To that, a former associate replies: "Ben ain't in this to look at pretty girls in tights; he don't do nothin' that don't make money." Whatever else...
Stage Struck (RKO Radio; Buena Vista) is a vigorous second blossoming, this time in hothouse Technicolors, of Morning Glory, the sentimental success of 1933. First time out, the blooming little idiot of the title role was portrayed by a young comer named Katharine Hepburn, and the performance won her an Oscar and made her a star. This time around, the stage-struck heroine is played by a young (19) comer named Susan Strasberg-well known on Broadway for her work in The Diary of Anne Frank-and the performance seems sure to win her Hollywood stardom...