Word: fill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thought I was going to have to think of some inanity to fill this column this week; but no, in fact there are some interesting things to do. No fooling...
Paley had other announcements. Next April, he said, he himself would give up his post as CBS's chief executive officer, though he would remain as chairman. To fill Taylor's job, he named John D. Backe, 44, the president of CBS's publishing division. Then, as if to calm ruffled nerves, came a flood of impressive figures. CBS's third-quarter profits rose to a record $40.8 million on sales of $525 million. That was a big jump from the same period last year, when the company earned $29.1 million on revenues of $461 million...
King's Wrath. Another apparent irritant to Paley came in 1973 when Taylor hired an International Paper executive, presumably to fill his shoes when he stepped into Paley's. Says former CBS Programming Chief Michael Dann: "There is no such thing as power politics at CBS. Power rests with the throne and Mr. Paley is the king." Adds Dann: "When the old man gets mad, he gets mad. And when he gets mad, he lets go his wrath." A board member puts it another way: "CBS is the house that Paley built, and he simply didn...
...most players also felt that it would be a mistake to make any absolute decrees, because there may be years when Harvard simply cannot fill its trombone, or tuba, or bass sections. "If Harvard recruited more musicians--and offered them more here--that problem wouldn't arise," one violinist said...
...conductor of the orchestra, James D. Yannatos, defends his policy by claiming that there just aren't enough competent musicians at Harvard to fill an orchestra--or rather, to fill two orchestras, since Yannatos is nervously aware of competition from the Bach Society...