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...already has more acts going than the Ed Sullivan Show. Beyond its established operations in radio and TV, phonograph records and technological R. & D., it has 1) a quartet of companies that make drums, banjos, electric guitars, violin strings and other musical gear, 2) a pair of small Los Angeles producers of educational films, 3) Creative Playthings, a Princeton, N.J. maker of instructional toys and 4) the New York Yankees, who have been teaching the first baseman's trade to their brawny but brittle superstar, ex-Outfielder Mickey Mantle, in order to preserve his ailing legs-and possibly...
Years ago, when he taught himself his trade by beating out rhythms to accompany phonograph records, he even refrained from watching himself in the mirror as most conductors do. He was worried that he, like so many others, might "become entranced with myself...
...when the earth passes through Saturn's equatorial plane and astronomers can get an edge-on view of the rings, their glow practically disappears. In place of their familiar, disklike shape, the rings appear as a faint, straight line, much like the side view of a phonograph record held flat at eye level...
...countries on doing business with all three companies. The action against Coca-Cola came in retaliation for the granting of an Israeli bottling franchise to Manhattan Banker Abraham Feinberg, who is also president of the Israel Development Corp., which promotes Bonds for Israel. RCA angered the Arabs by allowing phonograph records to be pressed in Israel. The move against Ford resulted from a licensing agreement allowing an Israeli firm, Palestine Automobile Corp. Ltd., to assemble British and American Ford trucks and tractors for the Israeli market...
Always focusing ahead, Sarnoff conceived the radio phonograph, negotiated the acquisition of the Victor Talking Machine Co., then immersed himself in developing Vladimir Zworykin's miraculous iconoscope for commercial television. The vision became a reality at the 1939 World's Fair, when, in the first public demonstration of TV, Sarnoff himself intoned from the screen...