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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many RCA pros bet that steady John Burns would wilt in the brightly lit world of entertainment. Instead, Burns outshone the lights. He boosted RCA's non-entertainment business by more than 30%, directed the company to new areas and products. Under Burns, RCA brought out its stereo tape...
British audiences were, titillated early this year by a new film farce called The Captain's Table, which chronicled the social perils of a luxury-liner captain adrift in a sea of calculating female passengers. Last week all England was agog over a real-life-setting of The Captain...
IN an age of increasing specialization, many U.S. companies dream of a Renaissance-type man, skilled and versatile, who can command all the specialties in a smooth, rhythmic whole.
Few men come closer to that dream than a onetime teacher named John Lawrence Burns, 50, president of the huge ($1.2 billion a year), kaleidoscopic Radio Corp. of America. Spectacled, stocky John Burns not only runs the biggest U.S. entertainment company, but a sprawling complex that is intimately involved in...
BURNS believes that corporate versatility is the key to progress and profits, plans to make RCA even more versatile. Within a year RCA will bring out a "hear-see" stereo-TV attachment that will run video tapes, e.g., Hamlet, on regular TV sets, bring ex-Teacher Burns closer to his...