Word: silverman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even the instigators of the trend now feel that it has gone too far. "We've overextended ourselves in this form," says NBC Program Chief Lawrence White. As a result, notes Fred Silverman, CBS'S vice president of programming, there is a "public thirst for comedy" and for positive, nonviolent drama. Both executives agree with the president of ABC entertainment, Martin Starger, that "there's going to be a drift away from the law and order shows." If so, the drift will be so gradual as to be barely noticeable this year. Among the midseason replacements being...
...reflected this week in TIME'S Nation section, where most of the stories deal with some aspect of the growing scandal. The deluge of Watergate news in the past few months has been particularly trying for the Nation section's reporter-researchers, who, under Head Researcher Raissa Silverman, sort out the facts and keep our stories accurate...
Green was a blunt, unpretentious man. Sime Silverman, who founded the paper in 1905, hired Green in 1918; in 1933 Green began to edit the paper, was given a battered desk close to the window of Variety's office just off Manhattan's Times Square and never changed it. He was rarely without the bow tie and sleeve garters he affected to look like Sime. He seemed to know every entertainer, the famous and freakish alike. A walk down the street invariably involved dozens of exchanged greetings and many an impromptu conference. He found time to coauthor, with...
...fighters, working for promoter Sam Silverman, were George Green of the Bronx, N.Y., and Jose Pagan Rivera of Lowell. One member, dallying over his apertif, said the fight was a "smashing success." Rivera took the decision...
...Alley Cat, a Philadelphia-based maker of women's boutique and sportswear fashions, sold its entire output through a showroom in Manhattan. Since then, it has opened salesrooms in Dallas and Los Angeles; last year, only about 30% of its garments were sold in New York. Says Jerry Silverman, president of a Manhattan-based designer shop that counts Pat Nixon and her two daughters among its customers: "There is so much money in the hands of American women these days that dressmakers face the opportunity of a lifetime. But to get the business, you have...