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Robert W. Sarnoff, L.H.D., president...
Everybody is getting into the act. Our cover subject for this week hazards: "General Sarnoff is really a corporal." And then again, the sculpture that Robert Berks did for our cover is bound to evoke an obvious if awful contribution from graffiti fanciers, and so we might as well be the first to say it: "Johnny Carson is a bust...
...Syndicated Columnist Ralph McGill watches "with great frequency." TV Chef Julia Child does her morning calisthenics by it. On the West Coast, Danny Kaye and Pat Brown are fans. In Manhattan, Today is one of the two programs (the other: the Huntley-Brinkley Report) that RCA Boss David Sarnoff watches regularly, and even William Paley, board chairman of rival CBS, is said to find Today irresistible...
...Actually, the first demonstration of TV by David Sarnoff [Oct. 7] was given in 1930. It was by closed circuit from the studios of RCA Photophone on the eleventh floor of 411 Fifth Avenue, to a Broadway theater packed with the press and theatrical, radio and movie world hierarchy. A young junior exec on the scene at the time, I was recruited to give a five-minute performance under green grease paint, but without rehearsal or direction. It was the golden opportunity for an aspiring actor, but I flunked it completely because of stage fright. Mr. Sarnoff kept...
Adviser to Presidents, U.S. Army brigadier general and chief communications aide to Dwight Eisenhower in Europe, Sarnoff, at 75, would be more than justified if he were to retire. But he remains "too fascinated with the fu ture." Although he has relinquished his title of chief executive officer...