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Donying reports of a trade war, Frank M. Folsom, president of the Radio Corporation of America, introduced a new-type long-playing record last Tuesday that plunged the record industry into hopeless confusion. Columbia, ballyhooing an entire symphony on one record at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute, was given a sudden slap in the face by RCA, which claims its speed of 45 r.p.m. is the best for "completely distortion-free music of unprecedented brilliance and clarity of tone...
Radio. Directors of RCA promoted Frank M. Folsom, 54, from executive vice president to president, on the say-so of Chairman David Sarnoff, who has been doubling as president. A merchandising expert for over 30 years, Folsom was once a vice president of Montgomery Ward, served as assistant chief of Navy procurement for nearly two years during World War II, and joined RCA in 1944. Folsom, who will share top responsibility with Sarnoff (still chief executive officer), was full of beans about television. Said he: "Television is ... two years ahead of the most optimistic post-war forecasts . . . Today there...
Participants in a discussion of "What's Happening to Our Family System?" will include: Carle C. Zimmerman, associate professor of Sociology, Joseph K. Folsom, professor at Vassar College, and Dr. Carl Binger '10. Clyde Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology, will moderate...
Zimmerman will interpret the direction of social change as related to a gradual breakdown of the family system. Professor Folsom expressed a totally different opinion in the July 26 issue of Life when he stated that the direction of the family system is toward greater adaptability in a scientific...
From New York's Thomas E. Dewey: "The name of Connie Mack stands for what is best in our national game . . ." From South Carolina's J. Strom Thurmond: "Yours is a record which has no equal..." From Alabama's James Folsom: "Your life has been an inspiration . . ." From Louisiana's Earl K. Long: "America is all the richer for people like...