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DIED. Philip Sporn, 81, former president of the American Electric Power Co., once the world's largest private producer of electric power; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Austrian-born, "Mr. Public Utility" joined the forerunner of AEP in 1920, became its chief engineer in 1933 and president in 1947. By producing power at lower cost, the seven-state utility network encouraged the widespread use of electricity and helped industrialize the Ohio Valley...
Cultivate the Garden. The statement drew objections from some CED members who still feel that business can serve society best by conducting its own operations effectively. In a biting dissent, Philip Sporn, former president of American Electric Power Co., argued that before business gets any heady notions of saving society it must first improve its own performance. The railroad industry, he said, would serve society best by designing the "modern system of transportation" that so far it "has not even approached"; the New York Telephone Co. should improve its present "third rate" service; and the utilities' main obligation, which...
Last week President Philip Sporn of the American Electric Power Co. Inc. announced that his company has adopted a new "bird" technique of working on high-tension lines. The lineman does not climb the tower. Instead, he sits in a plastic bucket and is raised to the wire by a truck-mounted boom made of insulating fiber glass. When he reaches the wire, he clamps to it a cable that is connected to metal mesh lining the bucket. This operation sounds suicidal, but it is not. The current moves into the mesh, charging it along with the lineman...
...Project, Achieve, Project." Since the next revolutionary change in power plants may come from the atom, Sporn has boned up on the problem, is one of the top U.S. authorities on industrial uses of atomic energy. He went to Geneva as a member of the U.S. delegation to the atoms-for-peace conference last summer, is president of Nuclear Power Group, Inc., a utility-backed atomic research organization that is contributing $15 million in research and development to Commonwealth Edison's 180,000-kw. reactor outside Chicago. Says he: "The power industry is in a terrifically dynamic phase...
Since AGE is in the coal-rich heart of the U.S., Sporn is confident that atomic power will not be economically competitive to his company for at least 20 years. Nevertheless, he insists that the company must constantly "project, achieve, then project further." Sporn's own projection is that AGE's present capacity would be doubled by 1965, quadrupled...