Word: weaverization
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...Hyatt he got his nickname Buck after the baseball player named Buck Weaver who with seven others was involved in a national scandal over the selling out of the 1919 World Series...
...over himself and his ideas with the same technique he uses on the public-a steady flow of booklets, memos and "Thought Starters" (little Aesop-like homilies pointing up sound sales morals) circulated within the organization. Pretty far down the line on GM's organizational chart, Buck Weaver gets only about $20,000 a year salary...
Arriving at the GM Building about nine, Weaver lopes down the long corridor with a mess of manila folders under his arm, a cigaret stub in his nervous mouth. To preserve his more-or-less professorial role in a high-pressure company, he dresses with studied informality-slouch hat, tweedy, sloppy suit. He is short, bowlegged, has Clark Gable ears and hair cropped short because it tends to be kinky...
...right eye since birth). Likable and expansive, he talks incessantly, wrinkles his nose when amused, which is often. Though his job is listening to the public, he is a poor listener personally. Visitors have a hard time getting a word in edgewise but rarely mind because the Weaver conversation is equipped not only with a store of fresh ideas but with an incredible volume of Negro stories which he tells in a nasal Georgia drawl...
...order to keep his creative faculties unsullied by routine, Weaver leaves management of his cluttered office to two young assistants-La Verne N. Laseau and A. Marsden Thompson. Rather a diligent extrovert in his writings, he assumes such pen-names as Fargan Hathway, makes a point of quoting Baltasar y Morales Gracián, a 17th Century Spanish Jesuit. Buck Weaver's screwiest activities are occasional booklets he prints at his own expense. He justifies them as outlets for his inhibitions, as surface rashes on his emotional ego. Sample paragraph based on Olive Schreiner story of the "Hunter...