Word: sylvesterisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶|Jackson Kemper (1789-1870) son of a customs receiver for New York City. He lived in Philadelphia with his first wife, and in Norwalk, Conn, with his second, but he loved the Western frontier. He became the first missionary bishop of the Episcopal Church, with jurisdiction over Missouri and...
But this week, as he unpacked a new shipment of 22,000 tiles for the church, scowling at each damaged tile through his steel-rimmed glasses, he had a more immediate project in mind. For designing the church (without fee), French Architect Robert Erell, a Protestant, was awarded the Order...
Three NBC shows last week had to get out of town. The migratory programs were Today, Home and Tonight. The stimulus to move was provided by NBC President Sylvester ("Pat") Weaver, who thinks that the TV tendency to originate everything from Manhattan or Hollywood may eventually get the industry in...
The most exciting television performance of 1954 may have taken place behind, rather than in front of, the TV cameras-in the office of NBC's president and thinker-in-chief Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver Jr. A lanky, ingratiating man of 45 who towers (6 ft. 4 in.) above...
Another important guest belonged to Comic Steve Allen, who had a televised talk with his boss, glib NBC President Sylvester (Pat) Weaver. Said Weaver, defending the network's heavily publicized "spectaculars" (color TV extravaganzas): "I have never met anybody who saw-that is to say, any just plain person...