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...Freimann (pronounced Fry-man), who heads up a trim management team with an average age in the low 40s, emigrated from Hungary as a boy, lived in Chicago, quit trade school after two years and, at 19, talked his way into the chief engineer's job at the Lyradion Co., one of the early makers of radio-phonographs. "In those days," says Freimann, "the only people who knew anything about radio were kids." Freimann eventually formed his own Electro-Acoustic Products Co., where his chief supplier of loudspeakers was a struggling outfit named Magnavox. After the two companies merged...
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