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When that schedule bites the dust, maybe NBC's beleaguered Fred Silverman will at last rise from defeat and give network programming the jolt it so desperately needs...
...school. "Fortunately," he says, "the judge dismissed my case. But not without proclaiming that 'this doesn't mean the court thinks there is anything noble about the press.' " Ignoring that wisdom, Thomas came to TIME shortly after receiving his J.D. in 1977, joining Reporter-Researcher Raissa Silverman in the magazine's Law section. This fall Thomas will move to TIME'S Washington bureau to cover what Correspondent Brew calls "the most underreported branch of Government - the Judiciary." Says former Defendant Thomas of his new assignment: "The subject is not exactly unfamiliar...
...Silverman's magic finally fails him, the mourning in television land will be decidedly restrained. "This is the most unforgiving medium in the history of Western man," says another former NBC vice president. "It makes its own heroes, and then if they don't keep delivering, it murders them...
...husband. Pfeiffer then worked as a top-drawer consultant to several major companies, including NBC. Last fall, in a surprise move, she became the $225,000-a-year (plus up to $200,000 a year in bonuses) chairman of NBC, responsible to the network's new president, Fred Silverman...
Much of the current gallows humor at NBC eddies around the relationship of Silverman and Pfeiffer, a.k.a. "the Odd Couple" and "Mr. Tough and Mrs. Clean." By most standards, the two top executives are indeed mismatched. Silverman is rumpled and raffish, a volatile high roller, known for his seat-of-the-pants decisions on programming. Pfeiffer is formal and controlled, a superb administrator, known for her idealism and belief in "high programming standards." Where Silverman's language is direct and often unprintable, Pfeiffer's fluctuates between girls' school ("Oh gosh, gee whiz") and "high...