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Programming, which owes more to water divining than logical analysis, is a team game. Last spring Pierce hired away from CBS its programming chief, Fred Silverman, the most experienced and successful tactician in the business. Ironically, it was Silverman who set up the CBS schedule against which ABC has done so well. It is too early to judge Silverman's real influence on programming. It was he who spotted the series potential of Laverne and Shirley, the two brewery workers on Happy Days, and suggested The Bionic Woman spinoff. Silverman's impact on ABC itself is obvious. Already...
...wrestlers from last year with poor records, Bill Haley and Mitch Silverman, failed to return this year. Bob Cusumono, a talented grappler who made a habit of running out of gas in the late minutes of his matches, quit the team too: George Baker (142 lbs.), who was 13-2 as a sophomore, left the squad last year. He returned this season, but the layoff showed, as he struggled to a 5-8 record...
...Silverman said that Ford's behavior "resembles" that of patients Silverman has treated for "heading-for-a-fall syndrome." Silverman said there is "a likelihood that something more serious will happen" to such patients...
...syndrome "could even lead a person to get involved in situations where usual precautions are not taken--including overexposure to the likelihood of an assassin's bullet," Silverman said...
Although he refused comment on Ford's adequacy for his job, Silverman said he was "worried about the presidency...