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When Robert Sarnoff succeeded his father as head of RCA Corp. in 1968, the family's continued dominance over the diversified electronics giant seemed all but assured. Last week, though, "Bobby" Sarnoff abruptly quit as chief executive because directors would not give him a raise. That left RCA without a Sarnoff at its head for the first time in its 45 years of existence. In a move that stunned New York's business community, RCA announced that Sarnoff, at the age of 57, also would step down as chairman, and even as a director...
TIME has learned that a few weeks ago Sarnoff, whose contract expires at year's end, indicated he wanted more money and intimated that he might resign if his demands were not met. In 1974 he was paid $326,000 in salary and earned deferred incentive awards totaling $157,000. After making his wishes known, he left New York on a business-and-pleasure trip, touring the Far East and stopping in Australia, where his wife was singing. He returned to New York a few days before last week's regular board meeting. While he was away...
Married. Anna Moffo, 39, veteran soprano of New York's Metropolitan Opera and occasional nonsinging movie actress; and Robert W. Sarnoff, 56, board chairman and chief executive officer of RCA; she for the second time, he for the third; in Manhattan...
...technology now attained such mass and momentum that humans no longer can control it?" Sarnoff asked. "Has management become so bureaucratized and impersonal that it no longer works?" These are among the questions the program would attempt to answer, he said...
...chairs will be named in honor of David Sarnoff, who served as manager and then chairman of the board of RCA from its founding in 1919 until...