Word: weaverization
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...President left the grounds only to drive to church. He was up most mornings by 7:30, had eaten breakfast* and was in his small office above Golf Pro Ed Dudley's shop by 8 o'clock. There Ike worked with Secretaries Ann Whitman and Helen Weaver, received Washington reports delivered by his staff secretary, Colonel Andrew Jackson Goodpaster. Only top business got attention: routine matters were put aside until the return to Washington...
...term is drawing to a close. . . . The most-used numbers are on scraps of paper and on the backs of old lecture notes. Yes! I, along with the rest, will buy the CRIMSON Directory. But really, fellows, how soon is soon? Charles H. Weaver...
...breath. But he has proved, once more, his right to his job as linebacker. (On the other side of the field, Guard Dan Currie slams his 235 lbs. into a blocking dummy, drives the dummy and the scrub who is holding it a good five yards. Assistant Coach Doug Weaver looks pleased. The scrub looks startled. Currie looks down right awesome...
...immediate future. Weaver planned to sit back and "look at TV with an open mind, evaluate what I have done for NBC." Actually. Weaver has every reason to sit back for a while: he got a $200,000-plus settlement, but if he goes to work for a rival network before July 1, 1957, he must forfeit about one-fourth...
Just before Sarnoff took over as president. NBC had no TV shows in the top ten Trendex ratings, while CBS had nine. Sarnoff was determined to cut away at the TV fabric Weaver had woven, go after more so-called "bread-and-butter" programs. This month NBC has only two (sixth place and a tie for tenth) shows in the top ten. But TV ratings aside, rival network officials concede that Bob Sarnoff is a better administrator than Weaver, who had a penchant for endless interoffice memos. During Sarnoff's first six months in office...