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Three immigrants, now U. S. citizens, were awarded annual scrolls of the National Institute of Immigrant Welfare for "significant contributions to American life": Russian-born David Sarnoff, 48, President of R. C. A.; Scotland-born William Allan Neilson, 70, President of Smith College; Moravian-born Albin Polasek, 60, famed Chicago sculptor...
...wireless operator on Great Lakes steamers about the time radio got into the dictionary. He left the sea to manage a wireless station in Cleveland, became chief operator, then supervisor of the Great Lakes Division of Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co., whence he was hired by RCA's David Sarnoff as his assistant. When RCA bought Victor Talking Machine Co. he was put in charge of Radiola sales. He got into televison in 1934 when RCA promoted him to manager of its license division. For running Farnsworth, 45-year-old Edward Nicholas will get a block of stock...
...vacation in Europe, RCA President David Sarnoff compared Europe's dictators to Suicide John Warde, who waited eleven hours on a Manhattan window ledge before leaping to his death (TIME, Aug. 8): "To Europe's ledge-walkers is promised this or that in case they come inside, but it does no good. It is a pity that Europe is not able ... to say: 'All right, go ahead and jump if you want to, but it will...
...hours before William Paley went on the air, David Sarnoff, president of RCA, met his stockholders in Radio City's Studio No. 8-H, world's biggest. For the last few years RCA meetings have been furious affairs, with abuse, denunciation and a certain amount of gloomy prophesying. But last autumn RCA declared its first common stock dividend, and last week Mr. Sarnoff's stockholders confined themselves to asking how about Frank McNinch and Paul Walker. Said Mr. Sarnoff: "We have nothing to conceal, nothing to hide...
...Sarnoff's figures also comforted stockholders. On a total gross of $112,639,000, RCA's net last year was $9,024,000. For the first time Mr. Sarnoff told how much of that was made by NBC: $3,700,000 on a gross of $41,000,000. (CBS profits last year...