Word: sylvesterisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
Pusey will join with Dr. Sylvester B. Kelley, president of the 25th Reunion class (Class of 1929) in extending greetings to the Medical school alumni at the close of the meeting.
¶ Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver Jr., 44, was named National Broadcasting Co.'s president. A Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth, he became a boy wonder in advertising, was named advertising manager for American Tobacco Co. at 29. After two years' service in the Navy, he became a Young...