Word: musically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three years, ever since he took over the local Philadelphia show that grew into ABC's American Bandstand, Dick Clark has found plenty of bread in the oven. Among the loaves: three other ABC shows, an advice-to-teeners column in This Week magazine, interests in record-and music-publishing companies and other items, all adding up to an estimated annual income of $500,000. In the general uproar about payola, the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight last week inevitably got around to Dick Clark, the nation's most powerful disk jockey...
...with sweetness and light. Though often attractive, the abbey scenes come off too pretty; though sometimes fetching, the children's scenes come off too cute. Even Mary Martin, however deft, comes off a little too lovable. The milk of human kindness is not enough for The Sound of Music. It insists on the syrup, till even the Nazis seem mere bad goblins in a fairy tale...
...into a June-moon landscape, an all-church-bells-and-wedding-bells kind of world. In spite of a triangular love story, there is not one tantrum; in spite of seven Trapp children, not one brat. Surely even an unexceptionable family show can be more fun: The Sound of Music ends by making its warmheartedness as cloying as a lollipop, as trying as a lisp...
...Magazine Concept." For having broken a station rule against editorializing, Newscaster Legoff was promptly fired. His dismissal was scarcely an adequate answer to his argument, but answers did come from all sides. No one maintained that TV or the pop music business had a monopoly on shady practices; as the Christian Century pointed out, neither the press nor other media could afford to feel complacent...
...there has been no testimony; two committee investigators have merely talked to Clark about his business affairs. But even before the subcommittee took a hand, ABC confronted him with a significant decision: he must get rid of his outside music interests or else quit TV. The companies involved: Swan Records, Sea Lark Enterprises, January Music, Arch Music. (Entrepreneur Clark also has an interest in Drexel Productions, a TV packaging firm, and may have connections with Jamie Records, other record companies, a talent agency, a record-pressing plant, and a production company named Clarkfeld.) Faced with the ABC ultimatum, Clark decided...