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DIED. ROBERT SARNOFF, 78, second-generation chief of RCA; in New York City. In the 1950s and '60s, Sarnoff preened the company's NBC subsidiary into the peacock network, introducing color and expanding news. When the conglomerate he built suffered from sprawl, G.E. snatched...
...members of the Joint Committee for the University are Candace Corvery, associate vice president for human resources, Karen Davis, director of administrative management at the Medical School, Timothy R. Manning, director of labor relations, Richard S. Rosenbloom, Sarnoff professor of business administration and Eleanor G. Shore, a member of the faculty at the Medical school...
...stayed with his employer only three years before striking out on his own. After hooking up with a cash-strapped O-ring manufacturer in New Jersey, he was fortuitously introduced to a group of investors that included Baron Edmund de Rothschild and RCA's David Sarnoff. They put about $1 million into his company, but after growing nervous about Vesco's grandiose expansion plans, they allowed him to buy them out for only $12,500 (all except Rothschild, who stayed in and after 18 months made a profit of more than $1 million on his $250,000 investment...
Around the office, he is known as one of the most dependable and unflappable correspondents in the bureau. Like Clinton, he is married to a successful lawyer -- Ann Olivarius, now president of the Sarnoff Endowment for Cardiovascular Science -- whom he met at Yale. Balancing the demands of his beat and the needs of his growing family (a third child is due in January) may be the real test of his diplomatic skills...
Richard S. Rosenbloom '54, chair of Hillel's board of directors, said that Hillel's current building will become a part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Rosenbloom, also the Sarnoff professor of Business Administration, said the University has considered using the basement of the new building as housing for WHRB...