Word: succession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within the next month, therefore, the Western allies should present to the Soviet Union a step-by-step proposal which first leads to limitation then reduction of forces in both Germanies and finally to free elections and reunification. A proposal which demands more faces no chance of success; a plan which concedes more might lead to disaster...
...handsome, gregarious "King of Torts" smiled benignly at the one-legged skeleton beside him and happily explained the secrets of his success. "The ingredients of a trial lawyer," said Melvin M. (for Mouron) Belli in San Francisco last week, "are imagination and initiative. You need a feeling for the plaintiff, the desire to do him some good and to stick with him through thick and thin, and the guts to do just that when everyone is criticizing you." Belli paused thoughtfully, added: "And a little law will help...
Anna Lucasta (Longridge; United Artists), in the course of its on-again, off-again success story, has suffered more color changes than a traffic light. As first written, back in 1936, Anna was a backstreets melodrama in which Playwright Philip Yordan rummaged among some white trash in a small town. The principal characters were poor Poles, and the heroine was described by one playgoer as "a sort of squarehead Camille." When the play, as written, failed to get a Broadway opening, Playwright Yordan remaindered the rights to the American Negro Theater. The white trash became black trash, and caught fire...
...army private, that he drank, ran up heavy debts and asserted (falsely) that Benedict Arnold was his grandfather. Poe was a poet and a born soldier of misfortune -ill-armed against the world. Life was a bad dream to him; he is remembered today not for his success in coming to terms with it but for the fantasies and fictions that celebrated his defeat...
...Playwright Rod (Patterns) Serling, who has often brooded about the problems of money and success in the business world, broods about the problems of money and success in the writing trade. With Art Carney, Katharine Bard, Jack Klugman, Bonita Granville...