Word: weaver
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Robert C. Weaver, 53, administrator of the U.S. Housing and Home Finance Agency. At the age of 32, Harvard-educated Sociologist Weaver was a top strategist in the so-called Black Cabinet of the Roosevelt era-the able squad of Negro intellectuals who held administrative jobs in the New Deal. Since F.D.R.'s day, Weaver has been a teacher and writer (The Negro Ghetto, Negro Labor: a National Problem}, a highly regarded housing expert, and a spokesman on civil rights problems (he is board chairman of the N.A.A.C.P.). Kennedy plucked him from his $22,500-a-year...
...Quicker Solution. In some areas, a quicker solution is being used: the conversion of old hotels. Oldsters like them because they are conveniently near bustling business districts. Two old hotel chains-the MacArthur with 15 hotels, and the Weaver with 21-have united to form a chain throughout the South and the Midwest, called Senior Citizens Hotels Inc. They are converting several floors of each hotel for retirement living. There is a recreation room and kitchen, ramps instead of stairways where possible. Rents range from $35 a month for a room without meals to $125 for a bath and three...
...MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, at the Colonial, through Saturday, Oct. 8, produced by the American Shakespeare are Festival Acting Company, staring Bert Lahr as Bottom, the Weaver...
...mess of colossal proportions," wrote Crosby, recalling better days under the "visionary" regime of Pat Weaver and citing the network's decline in quality during the gradual transition from good dramatic shows like Philco Playhouse to dreary series like Riverboat. Moreover, said Crosby, the network profits were falling off sharply. And in five years, by the ratings, it had sunk from the No. 1 to the No. 3 network...
Calling Crosby's column "vindictive" and "distorted," Sarnoff, Kintner & Co. objected that he is "not informed, hates television, and uses his column as a springboard to bounce quips off." He was unfair, they said, to compare today's programing with the show spectrum of the Weaver era, since ABC had meanwhile emerged as a third major network, and it was competitively necessary to match its frank and potent mediocrities. What really bothered the NBC brass was not Crosby's charge of mediocrity but his suggestion that the network is not making money. As part of the parent...