Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congratulations," said a well-wisher last week to NBC's newly appointed vice president for television programming. "You mean condolences," replied Emanuel ("Manie") Sacks, a short, dark man of 52 with a talent for finding talent. Sacks was only half kidding. With the possible exception of watching the screen all day long, no task in TV is tougher than figuring out how to keep it filled. One of the big challenges facing Sacks and his fellow programmers on the other networks : the current season has turned into a big Unspectacular, and so far there is little...
...Talent Guy." Though he is the key man charged with producing the answer, Manie (pronounced Manny) Sacks has never created any entertainment in his life, once told an interviewer: "I am strictly a no-talent guy myself." But he probably can commandeer more live talent than anybody in broadcasting. Born and educated in Philadelphia, Manie, who looks like a rough draft of Frank Sinatra, learned show business as an actors' agent (show biz lingo: "flesh peddler") for the Music Corp. of America, then took over bookings for Columbia Records. In that job, he successfully persuaded Dinah Shore, Sinatra, Benny...
Long an NBC vice president without portfolio, Sacks comes to his new job with frank qualms: "I didn't know I was competent for it." But he plans to do what he does best: woo plenty of new talent (including idea men), and sign up the most promising to long-term contracts. He believes that TV was not meant to be a mere exhibitor of old movies. Says Programmer Sacks: "Our job is creating. If you don't create, you might as well close shop...
...modern businessman. But most of the N.A.M.'s attention was devoted to such perennial targets as union activity ("encroachment on individual rights") and big government ("The termites of welfare statism eat out the foundations of our society"). When it came to exploring the new dimensions, most of the talent was imported...
...Author West's own family background shows remarkable similarities: she was, like the narrator of her novel, the third daughter of an ex-concert pianist and an itinerant journalist with a talent for money troubles...