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...R.C.A.'s President David Sarnoff, who, along with the East Side's Alfred Emanuel Smith, addressed an anniversary meeting...
...with eight business leaders (including Eric A. Johnston, Benjamin F. Fairless, David Sarnoff) whose advice he will henceforth seek from time to time on postwar economic problems. Among the subjects he recommended to their study: reconversion, the future of U.S. synthetic-rubber plants, how to dispose of materials and plants owned by the Government...
...also had, among its vivacious, fun-loving cast, two of the most personable and best-equipped fledgling divas that U.S. opera has turned up this season. One, Brooklyn-born Dorothy Sarnoff (no relation to RCA's President David Sarnoff), got her first break as a finalist in last year's Metropolitan Opera auditions of the air. As Rosalinda, she showed that she is ready for bigger things than operetta. The other, blue-eyed Philadelphia-born Virginia MacWatters, a protégé of famed Soprano Lotte Lehmann, tossed off her tricky coloratura arias with the ease and precision...
...testimony before the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee, Fly indicated that the Sanders Bill would hamstring reform, and declared, "If you want to turn this vast industry over to a couple of men in New York [presumably RCA President David Sarnoff and CBS President William Paley] you can go ahead...
Last week R.K.O. had a new alumnus: its president, George Schaefer. ex-general manager of United Artists, ex-sales vice president of Paramount, resigned. Mr. Schaefer was pushed into R.K.O. in 1938 by Rockefeller Center (alias Nelson Rockefeller) and R.C.A. (alias David Sarnoff), which were both stuck with large R.K.O. holdings. The choice of a salesman to lick production and financial problems roused grave misgivings in Floyd Odium, whose Atlas Corp. was up to its ears in R.K.O. stock too, and Mr. Odium turned out to be right: the studio mess at R.K.O. was too much for able Salesman Schaefer...