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...this is only the beginning. In his 20th-floor office on Manhattan's Madison Avenue, CBS President Frank Stanton (Ph.D. in Psychology, Ohio State '35) cries: "Not even the sky is the limit. The potentials of television are as big as the potentials of American society-and I do not feel like setting a limit on that." In Rockefeller Center, NBC President Pat Weaver (Phi Beta Kappa, Dartmouth '30) grows ever more expansive: "Television is as big as all outdoors. The whole country can visit the Vatican and La Scala at once. Our horizons are boundless...
...need for writers of quality is matched by an even greater need for writers without it (to feed the insatiable electronic monster). At the summit of the giant networks, the executives sound very much alike. Says CBS's President Frank Stanton: "This is the time for 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...
...know the man [Carbo] nor do I know who he knows or what he does. What I do know is that I had contemplated this move for two or three years because of increasing outside activities." Rebellious Captive. Other retiring directors had even less to say. For the record, Stanton Griffis, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Spain, was in Paris. Investment Banker Jansen Noyes and Motor Millionaire Walter P. Chrysler Jr. were "out of town." Financier William M. Greve, a man who temporarily gave up his U.S. citizenship in the 1930s, then returned home hurriedly from Liechtenstein just two jumps ahead...
Your accusation that Stanton's group has "deliberately caused the unemployment of 18,000 workers" achieves the result you desire in portraying the textile manufacturers as a vicious, irresponsible bunch. You might reflect that the workers themselves (or their union) are 50 percent to blame...
...Stanton's claims of unequal competition, moreover, are belied by the fact that similar strikes in Maine and New Hampshire have been settled. His argument smacks of economic fallacy, for other New England mills operate maintaining the $1.09 1/2 basis rate...