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...suave, articulate President Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver Jr. likes to wrap his fancier TV ideas in even fancier clouds of philosophy. Last week in Manhattan, Weaver rose before a roomful of reporters to announce a new idea. "How wonderful it would be," he wistfully began, "if everybody were rich." By the time he finished speaking, riches of a kind seemed within reach of anybody with the price of a television...
...privileged classes," Philosopher Weaver said, "pursue the better things in life." They get out and see the world. To the underprivileged who do not, Weaver proposes to bring Wide Wide World. It will be televised June 27 from 8 to 9:30 p.m., E.D.T., and at unspecified times thereafter...
Traveling Refreshment. The visit to Washington was not Home's first desertion of the $250,000 Manhattan studio built especially for the middle one of NBC's three big weekday "magazine" shows (the others: Today and Tonight). The idea for the exodus came from NBC President Pat Weaver, who decided that Home needed an occasional trip from New York to find "refreshment in ... the new ideas and new contacts that result from any physical change." Even more pertinent: an experimental trip to San Francisco last January boosted Home's A.R.B. audience rating in that city from...
Then Donahue persuaded Helen Weaver's family to offer $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the murderer, plastered the reward-offer story on the front page of the Press. It touched off a chain reaction of tips from underworld informers. First two tipsters said in affidavits that Harry Washburn, the son-in-law, had paid them a total of $750 to shoot not Helen Weaver but her husband. Police promptly arrested Washburn on the charge of murder...
Last week in San Angelo, the grand jury indicted Harry Washburn and Andrew Nelson, the ex-convict for the murder of Helen Weaver. Harry Weaver was free of suspicion, thanks to City Editor Donahue. Said he: "Jack Donahue helped tip the balance for me . . . He gave me strength at a time when I could not find the strength I needed in myself...