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...cameras-in the office of NBC's president and thinker-in-chief Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver Jr. A lanky, ingratiating man of 45 who towers (6 ft. 4 in.) above his L-shaped desk. Weaver talks in a cascade of nonstop sentences that sometimes sound like high-flown doubletalk. Sample: "Speaking communications-wise, you believe that in order to have pride and the creative restlessness, your social responsibility as management is to see that every opportunity is used to expose people to things in which they have expressed no interest, but in which, you as an information optimist...
...embodied no high-flown phrases. One of the four founding fathers, a tailor, admitted frankly that "the idea of my making a lot of new friends-who presumably would be working overtime to get people to come and have their clothes made at my place-struck me as a pretty good proposition." As the club has expanded to include some 390,000 members in 89 countries, the underlying principle is still the same one of friendship and understanding...
What will Perlman do with the Central? Disregarding for the moment Young's high-flown proposals, such as the lightweight Train X, roller bearings and refrigerated cars, he says he will first "spend six months getting acquainted Those present: Allan P. Kirby, Young's side, kick and president of Alleghany Corp.; Earl E. T. Smith, New York Stock Exchange member and former husband of a descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt; Dr. R. Walter Graham, Baltimore physician; William Landers of Utica, retired Central engineer; D. E. Taylor, president of West India Fruit and Steamship Co. of Norfolk, Va.; Frederick Lewisohn...
Thou Swell (Beryl Booker Trio; Discovery). Slightly nervous but mighty high-flown ivory-tickling on another Rodgers & Hart oldie, with firm drum and bass support by an all-girl combo...
Died. Irene Temple Bailey, 84, prolific, bestselling writer of high-flown romance (e.g., Wallflowers, Little Girl Lost); in Washington...