Word: succession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opening the program with Everybody Loves Saturday Night, Lomax rambled through a couple of Great Lakes ballads, and Range of the Buffalo, displaying the charm which contributed to his success as a folksong collector for the Library of Congress...
...trademark as his lopsided smile. A onetime United Press staffer, he began doing TV newscasts in Washington in 1943, when there were only a few hundred sets in the city ("I had a chance to learn while nobody was watching"), and still claims to be astonished at his own success ("TV grew up, and I happened to be standing there''). He does some specials in addition to the show with Huntley, writes all of his own material, remembers when TV brought him $60 a week, now collects $75,000 a year...
Whitehead's decision to get out of the world race was dictated partly by an arterial condition in his legs that makes it painful for him to move, partly by success -his 1956 book, The FBI Story, was a bestseller. But more important was a desire to go back home. He left the A.P. in 1956 to become the New York Herald Tribune's Washington bureau chief, quit in 1957 and toured the world gathering material for a book on international crime, finally realized that where he really wanted to be was back in Knoxville...
...success of Treasury Secretary Anderson's magic fives caused many private money authorities to think that the worst pinch in the money market may be over and rates may level off. While Anderson will be competing with the heavy seasonal demand by business for funds to finance the building of Christmas inventories, the fact that the issue was so heavily oversubscribed suggests that the 5% note was anything but a one-shot wonder...
Fighting back, Fonda hires assassins, one of whom kills the other. He also fends off a blackmailer who wants enough money to live for three days like an American tourist. Thus the film alternates between unsuccessful farce and success-formula soap opera, but it never quite lives up to its pressagentry as "twists of tender pathos sublimated by laughter before the pathos can descend to bathos." The Man Who Understood Women is bathos cubed...