Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trend, as most industry sources think it will, very few imitators can expect to gain the same instant acceptance. Much of that was obtained by close attention to programming-sensible scheduling against the competition and sharp promotion. In these areas even his competitors agree that Fred Silverman is a master. Says Mike Dann, former CBS program chief: "He is compulsive about spots and ads. You can add 15 to 20 share points to a show by good promotion." Silverman is no less punctilious about the refinements of scheduling. Says Dann: "Before I saw Charlie's Angels, I knew...
...implanted in his chest. "He is a child of broadcasting," says former CBS Executive Ethel Winant. Silverman's father was in television (he repaired them), and Fred was reared in Forest Hills, N.Y., on Howdy Doody and Clark Kent. He studied communications at Syracuse University and earned a master's degree at Ohio State. His thesis: a 400-page analysis of ABC programs from 1953 to 1959. After two years of scheduling movies for Chicago's WGN-TV, he showered network executives in New York with unsolicited letters, some of them assessing program lineups. CBS eventually took...
...keep track of housekeeping details and the transcendental homilies will take care of themselves. At home Hough's day still begins as it has for years, with a predawn walk to Edgartown's harbor light. Graham goes along but does not always agree to the route his master has chosen, and, like many Americans, has "a weakness for excavation." If in his daily round of mail and meals, of musings and memories, Hough feels a pronouncement coming on, he shares it. "A house needs its identity of habitation," he thinks on returning from the walk...
Hough moves with an essayist's grace from lemonade to his dislike of meetings, from Virginia Woolf to George Borrow. He is never sentimental, but he does not give up on old affections either. He is master of the splendidly abrupt transition: "In December 1971 I threw out all my city shirts, hoarded since 1926." Or: "Today Graham ate a whole banana." Or, with drastic irony: "Someone is sure to mention sex." Perhaps predictably Hough has it in for Sigmund Freud because he feels that the good doctor unwittingly damaged the possibilities of romance and encouraged the adoption...
...England, Fujita played a match on closed-circuit television against Tony Miles, 20, the first British chess grand master, winning two games out of three. In Pasadena, Calif., students at Caltech programmed a computer, named lago, to play against Fujita, who easily beat the machine. In Washington, B.C., however, the Japanese barber took a beating at the hands of Mark Weinberg, 30, a Government lawyer. "I took him apart," boasts Weinberg, adding: "I'm a lifelong chess player. When I saw this game, I said, 'Wow, this is great!' It is sort of addictive...