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Hastily created in 1928 from the remnants of the Keith-Orpheum theater chain by RCA Founder David Sarnoff and Joseph P. Kennedy, tiny RKO became the studio mouse that roared like MGM's lion. RKO produced the first Technicolor feature, Becky Sharp, starring Frances Dee, now 74 (and in a bit part, a then unknown 23-year-old actress, Pat Ryan, later Pat Nixon), Citizen Kane and the nine best Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers pictures. Last week the final vestiges of the studio-30 years' worth of scripts, musical scores and papers-were donated to the film...
...experiment began because Roosevelt was angered at being embarrassingly misquoted after a private meeting with some Senators. White House Stenographer Henry Kannee suggested that such talks be recorded. The technology of bug ging was still in its infancy, but David Sarnoff, then president of RCA, donated to Roosevelt an experimental device similar to machines used in making sound films. The microphone was hidden in Roosevelt's desk lamp, and it could be switched on or off by a button in a drawer. Roosevelt used the machine between August and November mainly to record 14 press conferences, where no direct...
...your story on RCA [Feb. 9], you refer to "the awkward ousting of the son of the company's founder." The implication is that David Sarnoff was the founder of the Radio Corporation of America. RCA was started in 1919 by General Electric Co. GE was soon joined in this venture by Westinghouse Electric Corp. and A T& T. Owen D. Young, an officer of GE, was named the first chairman of the board of RCA, and E.J. Nally was the first president...
...time, David Sarnoff's title was commercial manager. He did not become president until...
Midway into the second stanza, Dartmouth's leading scorer, Claudia Sarnoff, found herself alone in front after a centering pass from a pileup in the corner. But Tate came out to cut off the angle with surveyor's accuracy, forcing Sarnoff's bullet to bounce wide off the right post...