Word: sylvesterisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he started writing "Dream Street," a once-a-week Broadway column, for the New York Daily News in 1951, Drama Critic Robert M. (for McPhierson) Sylvester saw little future for Broadway columnists. The migration to the suburbs, he reasoned, was not only killing off nightclubs but the demand for...
But the 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...
NBC's 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...
To face the Soviet statesman, CBS lined up three topflight Washington correspondents : Arthur Sylvester of the Newark News, James Reston of the New York Times and James Shepley of TIME. Meanwhile, Molotov laid down a condition for his appearance. Refusing to be freely questioned by the reporters, he demanded that...
NBC's suave, articulate President Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver Jr. likes to wrap his fancier TV ideas in even fancier clouds of philosophy. Last week in Manhattan, Weaver rose before a roomful of reporters to announce a new idea. "How wonderful it would be," he wistfully began, "if everybody...