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...lack of interest in some of the commercial aspects of radio may account for the fact that RCA's brilliant record in research and financing has not been equaled by its sales record-until recently. The man who has done much to eliminate this weakness is Frank M. Folsom, onetime vice president of Chicago's Goldblatt Bros, and Montgomery Ward, and chief of the procurement branch of the Navy during World War II, who joined RCA Victor...
...chairman, Sarnoff lets President Folsom handle most executive details. Folsom is thus the empire's only heir apparent, but at 57, he is close to Sarnoff's own age. There are a few able younger men coming up, but RCA's major weakness is lack of a solid second echelon of younger executives. Its size often makes it hard for RCA to turn fast enough to cope with the crack team of Paley and Frank Stanton at smaller...
...best-known wind tunnels are vast, bellowing monsters that soak up the local power supply and drive the neighbors nuts. Last week Dr. Richard G. Folsom of the University of California described a quieter and trickier tunnel. Built with Navy and Air Force funds, it is a stainless steel tube only 5 ft. long and 18 in. in diameter. Its purpose: to simulate aerodynamic conditions near the earth's outer frontier-the atmosphere 50 miles...
Marion B. Folsom M.B.A. '14 of Rochester, New York, is the only nominee this year who is not a College graduate. Although graduates of other colleges have been nominated and elected in the past, their number has been relatively small...
Last week, Dr. Willard F. Libby of the University of Chicago gave his decision on some charred bison bones sent to him by Dr. Elias Howard Sellards of Austin, Texas, who took them from a deposit full of distinctive Folsom artifacts. Dr. Libby measured the radioactivity of the carbon in the remains of the bones' organic material.* His conclusion: the bison died (and was probably cooked and eaten) about 10,000 years ago. Therefore, Folsom Man must have been a bison-chasing Texan at that remote period...