Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson's two goals and turned in solid line play. Sophomore John Mudd, at outside left, worked well with Bernheim in moving the ball down-field and playmaking. Mudd scored the other Harvard goal on a penalty shot. Steve Rhoades, who alternated with Mudd, did not show the talent he exhibited in Monday's scrimmage with...
...jury had oversold their favorites. Morandi, who specializes in painting bottles, was a disarmingly quiet candidate, and his countrymen are inclined to be as modest about their moderns as they are proud of their old masters. More important: no still-life painter now working has a subtler talent for arrangement, texture and tone. Morandi's still lifes carry forward the great traditions of Cézanne...
...show boosted Revlon sales 50% in one year, but things got worse in the advertising end. Norman claims that Revson refused to pay him the standard 15% fee (some $150,000 yearly) on talent used on the show. Revson's brother Martin, the only Revson who would comment last week, insists that the Norman agency was dropped because it began handling a rival show, The Big Surprise. Snapped Martin: "Norman is just a mere infant, that's all. He should shut up." Whatever the truth, Charlie Revson and Norman did not get along. "Revson has good ad sense...
...opened the door to all the many pay-TV systems now being developed instead of okaying only one or two, as telecasters had expected. Each system thus will scramble to sign up stations for its service and to corner the limited supply of performing talent and first-run movies. This may pinch the viewer; since his set can be adjusted to receive only one pay system, it will be blacked out of the good shows on the other systems. The sweaty competition will also spur attempts by the established free TV networks to muscle out the pay-TV upstarts...
...powerful TV networks will wage the strongest campaign against the pay system. So will their admen and the moviehouse operators, who stand to lose business. They argue that pay TV will drain the free networks of talent, penalize the majority in favor of the minority that would be able to pay for a better show. Cracked CBS President Frank Stanton: "Television could not long remain half free and half...