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...Sewanee Military Academy, finished his schooling at the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. From college he went into the regular Army, was presently attached to the San Francisco staff of wealthy General Charles G. Morton, whose stepdaughter he married in 1923. Same year he met David Sarnoff who raved so much about radio's possibilities that Trammell asked...
...maximum strength for commercial transmission. Not so rapid was the progress of FCC's monopoly-investigating committee, first presided over by Chairman McNinch, later by fat-jowled, cautious Thaddeus Harold Brown, Republican wheel horse of the Commission. Starting in November 1938, with NBC's David Sarnoff as its first witness, the committee rambled on until the following May. Then it began to brood. Not until last week did it make known the results of its inquiry. They were enough to send a network tycoon gibbering to the hills...
...sucking oxygen and the windows curtained with frost, it nosed high enough over the earth's curvature so that it was on a theoretical eyeline with W2XBS. Suddenly on the mirror-screen of the receiver appeared the image of Herluf Provensen, NBC announcer. He introduced RCA President David Sarnoff, United Air Lines President William Allan Patterson. As they chatted, a photographer aboard the plane set up his camera. "Smile," he said into the radiophone. Presidents Sarnoff and Patterson obediently smiled, were mugged 200 miles away...
...Reporting the new crisis that demonstrated how much more important it had become, Radio went into action with 774 stations, with radio sets in 26,666,000 American homes, with RCA its No. 1 radio corporation, its President David Sarnoff the U. S. No. 1 radioman...
...make a series of special recordings, guaranteeing their cost ($150,000) should the venture fail. The music to be recorded was chosen by the Post's Musicritic Samuel Chotzinoff, a key figure in the plan because he is close to RCA's front door: its President David Sarnoff is his good friend. Keeping it under their hats, such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, the New Friends of Music Orchestra recorded such works as the Beethoven Fifth Symphony, the Mozart G-Minor Symphony. Post readers could get each album (three or more disks) by presenting 24 vouchers clipped...