Word: sarnoff
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James L. Whittenberger, associate professor of Physiology, heads the four-man team which has already made several significant contributions in the treatment of polio patients. The other members, also in the Physiology Department, are Dr. Harben J. Boutorline-Young, Dr. Benjamin G. Ferris, Jr. '40, and Dr. Stanley J. Sarnoff...
When FCC made its color TV decision in favor of CBS (TIME, Oct. 23), RCA's scrappy Board Chairman David Sarnoff apparently did not hear the bell ending the fight. Last month he won a temporary injunction restraining the FCC decision. Last week, still in there swinging, he personally ran a demonstration of RCA's improved color TV system in Washington. More than 100 newsmen and businessmen saw color pictures that were brighter, more stable and had much better definition than any RCA color previously shown...
None of the FCCommissioners was invited to the demonstration, explained Board Chairman David Sarnoff, because RCA is currently engaged in litigation with FCC. Though well satisfied with the success of the demonstration, RCA was not yet ready to estimate the costs of its new tricolor tube receivers. Said Executive Vice President C. B. Jolliffe: "We do not pretend that RCA color is perfect . . . The great virtue of this all-electronic system is that it offers opportunity for continuing improvements. It does not have the limitations inherent in incompatible [i.e., CBS] systems...
Then RCA counterattacked. RCA's Board Chairman David Sarnoff, no man to break away from any fight, denounced the FCC decision as "scientifically unsound and against the public interest," ordered battalions of RCA lawyers, publicity men and engineers into the fray. In Chicago, Sarnoff stopped the CBS victory march dead in its tracks by getting a federal court order suspending the FCC decision until three judges can pass on its merits (TIME, Nov. 27). In practice, this means that CBS may telecast in color, but only at its own expense. Until the court decides, no CBS color programs...
Almost without exception, the major TV manufacturers denounced the FCC decision in favor of CBS. Board Chairman David Sarnoff of RCA labeled it "scientifically unsound and against the public interest." TV Pioneer Allen B. Du Mont snorted: "The decision just says to hell with the people who already own television sets." Pilot Radio Corp. threatened federal court action against FCC because it had "exceeded its jurisdiction." The Radio-Television Manufacturers Association called a special closed meeting on color TV, refused admittance to a CBS representative...