Word: weaver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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 as against a critic or somebody that is looking at it with a special frame of reference, usually his own witticisms-that saw these shows in color with the limited number of sets available, who just didn't flip his lid, as we say at the high executive level...
...decide the game. John Schwab, the right guard, is the squad's captain and a member of last year's all-Mid-America conference team. Veterans Dick Spellmey (209) Pounds) and Stan Maschino (190) flank Schwab at center and right tackle. At left tackle will be senior Ron Weaver (208), while Bob Ripple, a 188 pound sophomore, is slated to start at left guard...
...calling that show Nails and Coffins. We were afraid the rating would be low, but we never dreamed it would be that low. The whole idea of spectaculars just isn't going to go-it's the most unfortunate name ever coined." NBC President Pat Weaver, creator and coiner of TV spectaculars, blamed the failure on timing: "It's hard to get word to the public about a one-shot show, particularly before the season really gets going. The great, lethargic American masses have lots of other things on their minds." Weaver was not disturbed...
...Tuneful. Both Medic and Satins and Spurs (telecast in color) proved first-rate. The spectacular (a word detested by everyone at NBC, except the publicity department and President Pat Weaver) was big and tuneful. The book (by William Friedberg and Producer Liebman) contained the usual musical-comedy eyewash: Betty Hutton was cast as an untutored cowgirl who comes to Manhattan, falls in love with a LIFE photographer, falls out of love, falls back in love again. But it was a fine vehicle for the Hutton bounce and enabled her to do her brash singing and dancing against a background...
BISHOP SANTE UBERTO BARBIERI, 52. Methodist of Buenos Aires also elected to the Council presidency. An Italian silk-weaver's son who started to read for the law while he rode about Brazil on a bony horse selling jewelry, Bishop Barbieri today heads a constituency half the size...