Word: succession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever territory his travelogues roamed, Douglas collected the awards and ratings that are the hallmarks of TV success. Eventually he was reminded that he had always wanted to make a show about success itself...
With wide-eyed envy, the first episode of Sweet Success reported the rise of Don Loper, a onetime ballet dancer, who gives up the stage for dress designing. To Producer Douglas, the critics' sneers seemed almost unAmerican. "Something's wrong in this country right now," says he. "With the beatniks and all, it seems fashionable to be a failure. In Sweet Success I'm going to show people who are successful because they worked hard, and people who live well because they enjoy...
Saccharine Sale. The fact that the critics find Success too saccharine bothers Douglas not a bit. He has sold it, and the big (6 ft. 2 in., 191 Ibs.), bass-voiced producer who acts as his own narrator is more than satisfied. "In this business," says he, "you gotta go, and you gotta go with what you've got." What Jack Douglas has got is a $50,000 salary, an additional $50,000 that he earns as a performer, and the proud knowledge that if "I really needed it, I could pay myself $250,000 a year without missing...
...most popular of the moderns, Kiyoshi Saito, 52, has achieved a success almost worthy of the top Ukiyo-e artists. In 1955 he exhibited 67 of his pieces in the U.S., in a grand gesture gave them all to the University of Michigan. In debt, like most of his contemporaries, to Western influence and a Western audience, Saito lately visited ancient Kyoto to recapture special Japanese qualities he feels his works lack, ruefully muses: "We have lost our Japanese origins. I keep on going to Kyoto to try to rediscover them." But to a Western eye, his origins are unmistakable...
...soul and accounting books. Burns worked up 100 monumental reports suggesting changes in RCA. To launch RCA in TV, Burns advised its National Broadcasting Co. to spend freely on a few outstanding shows and fill the other hours with low-budget shows; it proved to be NBC's success formula, set the pattern for other networks. So well did ex-Teacher Burns learn his RCA lessons that when the corporation in 1957 needed a president, it could find nobody who knew more about the company than Burns...