Word: weaverization
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When NBC's Board Chairman Pat Weaver thought up the idea of Wide, Wide World, he planned to put TV cameras in diving bells, on skis and surfboards, atop mountains and deep in caverns. In a creative frenzy, he cried: "Let's get the Sadler's Wells Ballet to do an outside original in an exciting locale, like on a fleet of barges being towed around Manhattan, with the symphony orchestra on the first barge, and cameras with telescopic lenses spotted ashore to zoom in from the Empire State, the Statue of Liberty, the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge...
...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...
...Sullivan has been dishing it up medium to well done, with viewers taking avidly to his servings. This situation has understandably made NBC officials extremely unhappy; it has caused big executives to fear for their jobs, and even brought NBC's Chairman of the Board Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver himself into the fight. Weaver delivered a ukase: "Sunday at 8 must be licked." Last week...
Died. George Davis ("Buck") Weaver, 64, star third baseman for the old Chicago White Sox (1912-20), who was barred from baseball for "guilty knowledge" of the 1919 Black Sox scandal; of a heart attack; in Chicago. Weaver continually pleaded his innocence, spent his last years as a parimutuel clerk at local racetracks...
...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...