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...himself transferred to Long Island, at a $10 cut in pay, so that he could go to night school, where he finished a three-year electrical engineering course in twelve months. When his big chance came, he was ready for it: he was an operator in the Marconi wireless station, atop John Wanamaker's Manhattan store, on the night of April 14, 1912, when he picked up a message from the S.S. Titanic: "Ran into iceberg. Sinking fast." For three days & nights, the nation waited breathlessly while Sarnoff, going without sleep, provided its only news of the disaster...
Sarnoff notes that the Titanic disaster "brought radio (and incidentally me) to the front." As a result of the disaster, Congress passed a law requiring every ship with more than 50 passengers to carry wireless. American Marconi set up a school to fill the sudden demand for operators; Sarnoff became an instructor at the school, rapidly moved up the ladder to commercial manager...
...determined to end the British wireless monopoly. At Government urging, General Electric's Vice President Owen D. Young got G.E., Westinghouse, United Fruit and A.T. & T. to pool all their wireless patents and jointly organize RCA. It took over American Marconi-and Sarnoff. As RCA's chairman, Young was so impressed with Sarnoff's vision and knowledge of wireless theory and practice that he made him general manager...
...like Henry Fonda) enacts the life of Russia's scientist. Popov, in the U.S.S.R.'s campaign to claim all the inventions of the past half-century, is the man who invented the radio. In the picture, Popov triumphs, despite the conniving of an "Italo-British adventurer" named Marconi "who, while still inexperienced in scientific matters, was nevertheless an aggressive grabber of other people's ideas and inventions...
Married. Sacha Guitry, 64, France's jack-of-all-theatrics, wartime favorite of the Nazis, but officially cleared of collaboration charges; and Leading Lady Ecaterina ("Lana") Marconi, 26; he for the fifth time, she for the first; in Paris...