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...public use, trumpeted Colorado's Democratic Senator Edwin C. Johnson last week, but "powerful interests" (i.e., set manufacturers) are delaying it until the market is saturated with black & white receivers. Before Johnson could draw breath, both CBS and RCA were making their answers. RCA's David Sarnoff said that his company was doing "everything we know how to advance color TV for the home . . . I don't know to whom Senator Johnson refers . . ." Added CBS, whose noncompatible* system was approved by FCC 2½ years ago (TIME, Oct. 23, 1950): the fault lies with the Government, which...
Robert W. Sarnoff '39, of N.B.C., spoke on "Television." "This is an exciting, challenging field with tremendous opportunity for great rewards," he said...
...Pentagon Jungle." The Sarnoff Commission's recommendations were the outcome of four months of bitter experience in what the report called "the Pentagon jungle." Established by Harry Truman's Defense Secretary Robert Abercrombie Lovett last October, the commission soon reached the conclusion that the armed services were trying to smother it with irrelevant data. Said Sarnoff: "The commission has received tons of information and not an ounce of interpretation . . . Cooperation from the services boils down to furnishing the commission with voluminous, lengthy and complicated documents . . . which leave the reader with a greater sense of bewilderment than...
Much of the time Sarnoff carried on the commission's work almost singlehanded. Some of the other commissioners did not come to any meetings. In late December, a little more than a month after the commission had begun work, one of its eleven members,* Businessman Robert W. Johnson, board chairman of Johnson & Johnson (surgical dressings, baby products), resigned because his health would not stand the strain. Included in the commission's final report last week was Johnson's parting shot-a memo in which he rated the services "in terms of cooperation toward manpower savings." His ratings...
Honored with medallions for helping to promote good will and understanding among Protestants, Catholics and Jews were Theatrical Producer John Golden, Publishers William Randolph Hearst Jr., Walter D. Fuller and Jack R. Howard, Comedian Danny Kaye, RCA's Chairman David Sarnoff (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), 20th Century-Fox's President Spyros P. Skouras. Also present at the ceremonies, sponsored in Manhattan during Brotherhood Week by the National Conference of Christians and Jews: Alben W. Barkley and wife Jane...