Word: weaver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commonplace domestic predicament, NBC's Board Chairman Sylvester ("Pat") Weaver noted that the dress of his wife, exActress Elizabeth Inglis, was entirely unzipped in back, fumbled to rezip her, bungled the job. Tensely whispered Liz: "Why don't you put your arm around me?" Pat Weaver instantly did so. The main reason the incident proved embarrassing was that some 20 million TV fans were watching it on a rival network show, CBS's Person to Person...
...Weaver's Son. Dry, meticulous Guy Mollet, a dedicated antiCommunist, was elected Deputy from Pas-de-Calais department at the first postwar election. His father was a weaver who died early,, and his widowed mother worked as a concierge to give young Mollet enough schooling to qualify him as a professor of literature. An early and militant Socialist, the young professor was soon fired for political activity, became secretary of the CGT teachers' union. After serving gallantly in the Socialist underground. Mollet caught the eye of the aging Leon Blum, soon was secretary-general of the Socialist Party...
...years as president of the National Broadcasting Co., eupeptic Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver made the newspapers almost as often as NBC's program timetables. He pushed the so-called "magazine concept" of selling TV ad time to several sponsors per show, popularized the hour-and-a-half "spectacular" program, thought up NBC's Wide, Wide World and long-winded Monitor. But all this was not entirely to the liking of David Sarnoff, 64, board chairman of NBC's parent company, Radio Corp. of America. Madison Avenue gossiped that Pat Weaver was getting too much personal publicity...
...change apparently made Bob NBC's chief executive officer, the position that Weaver had once had. A native of Manhattan and a Harvard graduate ('39), Bob Sarnoff started to learn broadcasting as a Navy communications officer, later worked for the Des Moines Register and Look magazine, before he joined NBC as a time salesman in 1948. He proved a good salesman and capable administrator, was moved up to NBC vice president in 1951 and executive vice president...
...composer must be a weaver; his creations, like cloth, have warp and woof, and some degree of lightness or heaviness, thickness or thinness, to say nothing of color. Last evening's Paine Hall concert by the Cambridge Quartet and assisting artists offered a particularly fine chance to study musical texture, especially since the musicians included some of the College's best...