Word: sarnoffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RUSSELL SAGE: THE MONEY KING by Paul Sarnoff. 398 pages. Obolensky...
...consumptive neurotic who was once led by a doctor from a board of directors' meeting in raving hysteria. These great robber barons all had the stuff of celebrity, and all of them have already been documented to death. But not Russell Sage, who was, according to Biographer Paul Sarnoff, more powerful than them all and as eccentric...
...year career he cleaned up in everything from lead mines to trotting tracks, ruled a vast network of railroads that spread from Ohio to the West Coast, established himself as the man who banked the robber barons, eventually scrambled to the top of a $100 million heap. Sarnoff also makes it clear, sometimes inadvertently, that Sage was a liar, a swindler, and a vivid illustration of that cliché about the desire for money being the root of all evil...
BETHANY COLLEGE (W. Va.) Robert W. Sarnoff, P.S.D., chairman of the board of NBC. You have provided the world's most distinguished baby sitter in millions of homes...
...parent company, the Radio Corporation of America, color it green. Under the prod of Board Chairman David Sarnoff, 74, the company sank $130 million into color TV before getting a penny out. Now RCA manufactures most color-television tubes, licenses the rest. With an estimated 3,000,000 color sets (which start at about $380) now in use in the U.S., and with the new NBC schedule as a come-on, the number is expected to jump...