Word: sarnoff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your story on RCA [Feb. 9], you refer to "the awkward ousting of the son of the company's founder." The implication is that David Sarnoff was the founder of the Radio Corporation of America. RCA was started in 1919 by General Electric Co. GE was soon joined in this venture by Westinghouse Electric Corp. and A T& T. Owen D. Young, an officer of GE, was named the first chairman of the board of RCA, and E.J. Nally was the first president...
Midway into the second stanza, Dartmouth's leading scorer, Claudia Sarnoff, found herself alone in front after a centering pass from a pileup in the corner. But Tate came out to cut off the angle with surveyor's accuracy, forcing Sarnoff's bullet to bounce wide off the right post...
...minutes into the game, one of these Dartmouth breakaways put the puck in front of the net. A mad scramble ensued and the puck flew towards the inside of the left post. When it emerged, Dartmouth's Claudia Sarnoff sent it right back in for the first goal of the game...
...Valente affair is another in a long string of embarrassments for the company since 1968, when NBC Founder Da vid Sarnoff handed his firm over to Son Bobby. Bobby Sarnoff, an erratic administrator, plunged the firm into computers, where it eventually had to write off a $490 million pretax loss. Sarnoff s successor, Anthony L. Conrad, resigned in 1976 after informing the board of directors that he had not filed income tax returns for five years...