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...find out who we really hate." For years he has kidded General David Sarnoff, who takes both his brigadier's star and position as RCA board chairman with great seriousness. But even Sarnoff chuckles when Hope whips out with: "When I started with the NBC network, he was using the enlisted-men's washroom." And he has certainly had the last say on the progress of television. After Newton Mi-now's 1961 complaint that TV was a "vast wasteland," Hope measured television's subsequent progress and concluded: "Mr. Newton Minow is a man of high...
...families now own an automobile, and one in five families has at least two; in 1917 only 5% had a car. Only 1% of U.S. farms was electrified in 1917; today more than 99% of farms and all other homes have Edison's bulb, not to mention Sarnoff's tube...
Understandably, "the General"-as old Reservist Sarnoff has been known at RCA ever since he was given a World War II promotion to brigadier general-has interested himself in his son's career. But Bob had to work his way up, starting 19 years ago as a TV time salesman for the NBC network, an RCA subsidiary...
Attending to Business. In earlier days, the younger Sarnoff's successive promotions were greeted in expected fashion. Wags suggested that his theme song ought to be Somebody Up There Likes Me. He made headlines in 1950 when, after a divorce, he married Felicia Schiff Warburg, member of one of New York's leading banking families. Nowadays, however, even the old skeptics admit that Bob Sarnoff has attended strictly to business. Over the years, his authority and judgment have been reflected more and more in the complex decisions that are of vital concern to the mammoth corporation. Though...
With these myriad activities, it is small wonder that the company Bob Sarnoff will take over recently reported third-quarter figures that should gladden the heart of any stockholder: sales stood at a record $804 million and earnings at a record $37.3 million...