Word: sarnoffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smuggle cultural and educational tidbits into the network's TV schedule. Says Taylor: "We all have on our consciences the power of the medium at our disposal. The ideas don't come from a few people off in a corner-they start at the top with General Sarnoff and go down to every single TV producer...
...David Sarnoff...
Militant feminists who make a habit of storming the annual meetings of big corporations to demand the election of a woman director usually get nothing but a polite brush-off. But when the demand was raised at RCA's meeting last May, Chairman David Sarnoff, who never underestimates the power of a woman, had a ready answer: RCA's subsidiary, NBC, had already named Mrs. Mildred McAfee Horton, ex-Wellesley president, ex-WAVE Commander, to its board. Moreover, said Sarnoff, she had proved so valuable that RCA would name her to its own board at the first opportunity...
...David Sarnoff, board chairman of Radio Corporation of America, celebrated his 45th anniversary in radio last week and told his research scientists what new inventions he would like to see them develop in the next five years: ¶ A device to amplify light the way a loudspeaker amplifies sound, to make television pictures both bigger and brighter without reducing their quality. Suggested name: "Magnalux." ¶ A way to record television programs on inexpensive tape. Suggested name: "Videograph." ¶ An electronic air conditioner with no motor, pump or other moving parts. Specifications: cheap, noiseless, and small enough to be used...
...office boy (1930-36) to General Sarnoff . . . I remember well his prediction in those days of an individual "wearing on his person a miniature radio receiving set-each assigned his own frequency"-so many years ahead of Dick Tracy...