Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver Jr., 44, was named National Broadcasting Co.'s president. A Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth, he became a boy wonder in advertising, was named advertising manager for American Tobacco Co. at 29. After two years' service in the Navy, he became a Young & Rubicam vice president at 40, joined NBC in 1949 as head of television. Sometimes called NBC's "thinker-in-chief," Pat Weaver thought up such programs as Your Show of Shows, Today. Already a legend in a legendary trade, Weaver talks in nonstop sentences, studs them with such phrases...
...author A. B. Groves examines two significant, apple-destroying fungi. Describing these diseases, he says, "Sooty Blotch appears as sootlike spots or blotches. Fly speck makes dark spots and looks something like fly specks." If more of Dr. Groves diagnoses were taken seriously, farmers would no longer need to wonder about those funny, black things on their apples...
...short, if the President's agricultural commission turns out any kind of farm program by January, it will have worked a wonder; if it turns out one that works without costing taxpayers billions, it will have performed a miracle...
SHORTAGE of titanium, the newest wonder metal for jet planes (TIME, June 15), is still so severe that Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott wants Congress to authorize a subsidy to the industry to help boost production immediately. Current production is only about 2,800 tons a year, and planned production of 25,000 tons by 1956 falls far short of needs. Talbott wants to subsidize the industry with Government-guaranteed loans, a rapid tax write-off, and Government contracts to buy all it can produce...
...Vincent ("Vinnie") Richards, 50, onetime wonder boy of tennis who teamed up with Bill Tilden to win the national doubles championship at the age of 15 and later won the national professional singles championship four times, was named vice president of Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp. Richards joined Dunlop in 1930, when the company first entered the tennis-equipment field...