Word: sarnoff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...December, he traveled to New Jersey to lecture before Sun Oil executives on his book. Richard S. Rusenbloom, Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration and Aberhathy's member from the carry, said I saw him on the youth of December He talked about work we would do together in January...
...television movie of Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song demonstrated, the networks will take the occasional chance. Whatever else may have been wrong with The Executioner's Song, and there was plenty, it did not suffer from a failure of nerve. Did General Sarnoff ever believe his network would show a psycho jailbird decking a girlfriend when she refused to have anal intercourse? The ultimate point of watching Gary Gilmore (Tommy Lee Jones) get ready to face the firing squad may have been right at the end of the rifle barrels, but it would be nice...
Hastily created in 1928 from the remnants of the Keith-Orpheum theater chain by RCA Founder David Sarnoff and Joseph P. Kennedy, tiny RKO became the studio mouse that roared like MGM's lion. RKO produced the first Technicolor feature, Becky Sharp, starring Frances Dee, now 74 (and in a bit part, a then unknown 23-year-old actress, Pat Ryan, later Pat Nixon), Citizen Kane and the nine best Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers pictures. Last week the final vestiges of the studio-30 years' worth of scripts, musical scores and papers-were donated to the film...
...experiment began because Roosevelt was angered at being embarrassingly misquoted after a private meeting with some Senators. White House Stenographer Henry Kannee suggested that such talks be recorded. The technology of bug ging was still in its infancy, but David Sarnoff, then president of RCA, donated to Roosevelt an experimental device similar to machines used in making sound films. The microphone was hidden in Roosevelt's desk lamp, and it could be switched on or off by a button in a drawer. Roosevelt used the machine between August and November mainly to record 14 press conferences, where no direct...
...time, David Sarnoff's title was commercial manager. He did not become president until...