Word: patly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writers. I think they're going to inherit the earth." Then he adds: "Mass circulation is the important thing, and you pay a price for it. But formula shows often have a professional quality that so-called quality shows wish they had." NBC's President Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver Jr. readily recognizes the reality of quality shows, but is just as quick to embrace the routine for commercial purposes...
...refugee program was disjointed originally by a Senate tug of war. At first the bill, called the Emergency Migration Act, was intended largely for people from Southern Europe barred by the low quotas of the McCarran-Walter Act, the basic U.S. immigration law. Nevada's late Senator Pat McCarran managed to change much of the content, as well as the title. As passed, the act was an administrative monstrosity which Congress assigned to the State Department's Security Chief, Scott McLeod. There was no staff, no office space, not even a desk for the program, but McLeod came...
...parting pat on the back for retiring President Henry Wriston of Brown University (TIME, April 11), John D. Rockefeller Jr., '97, announced that he was supplementing his June gift of $1,000,000 to the university with $4,000,000 more-he largest single gift Brown has ever received. Commented well-contented Henry Wriston: "A gift of these dimensions, completely unrestricted as it is . . . is evidence that the days of significant philanthropy are not over...
...chief idea man, President Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver, with his customary leaning to hyperbole, last month promised that he would wrap up the world and deliver it in a super-spectacular package to U.S. televiewers (TIME, June 13). Last week he delivered. The package was not quite as spectacular as promised, but Wide, Wide World, seen on NBC-TV's Producer's Showcase, was nonetheless a brilliant demonstration of how far and fast TV can travel. It was easily the most rewarding show of the week...
...Washington, D.C." She visits her husband's ancestral plantation, Peckerwood, meets his evil-tempered old mother, and trails a fox hunt in her hus band's Duesenberg. "I just hope I won't be sick when they kill that poor little fox," she confides to nephew Pat. Poor Auntie Mame has "never fully mastered the automobile." As the hounds come yelping down the road, the Duesenberg lurches forward, and Auntie Mame is in at the kill: "The fox lay dead under...