Word: weaver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cover story on Ed Sullivan and the frenetic television industry would make a book too. It was gathered by a dozen reporters and researchers-all of whom were so busy that some interviews were literally conducted on the run. Best break came when NBC's hyperbolic President Pat Weaver invited Correspondent Don Connery to ride home with him to Sands Point, L.I. On the way, Weaver's rented Cadillac blew a tire; in trying to change it, the chauffeur broke his jack. Weaver telephoned for another rented Cadillac, which took them to Sands Point, where Weaver, talking volubly...
...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...
...rival's strong shows. Ed Sullivan's show, since it begins at 8 o'clock, has long been the key to Sunday evening dominance. In succession, NBC has challenged it with the Philco TV Playhouse, the Lambs Club Show and the Comedy Hour. NBC's Weaver is as baffled as everyone else by the riddle of Sullivan's popularity. Currently, he subscribes to the theory that Ed has never lost his appeal because he didn't have any to start with. Says Weaver: "He doesn't do anything on a stage...
...each night viewers must make the decision whether to watch Robert Montgomery Presents, or Studio One, I Love Lucy or Medic, Disneyland or Arthur Godfrey, George Gobel or Gunsmoke. Shrewd Pat Weaver made these decisions even more difficult by spotting his 90-minute Spectaculars in places calculated to do the most audience harm to rival CBS. This year, NBC is back with 47 more Spectaculars, and CBS is replying in kind. Some TV families, rent with quarrels about which show to turn to, have ended in the divorce court...
Such good will paid off. Into Hospitality House, to mix with Westinghouse's Vice President for Atomics Charles Weaver and its top-drawer salesmen, swarmed representatives of 26 nations. Every prospect who looked good or even hopeful got a handsomely bound prospectus with pictures and detailed sketches of the reactor. When the time came to close the first sale, Scientist Weaver and Salesman de Cubas met with Fiat President Vittorio Valletta and signed...