Word: stantons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...testify before the House Commerce Committee was CBS President Frank Stanton, a very discouraged man. The CBS "field sequential system" had been approved by the FCC in 1950, he recalled, but TV manufacturers seemed to want none of it, because they were waiting for RCA's long-heralded "compatible" system (whose color broadcasts could be seen in black & white on present sets). CBS, said Stanton, would not push its system: "I think we would be tilting at windmills...
Defending champions in tonight's finals are: Richard Thoman, Yale, 100 backstroke; Donald Sheff, Yale, 100 freestyle; Wayne Moore, Yale, 440 freestyle; Owen Davies, Navy, three-meter dive; Yale (Thomas, Stanton Smith, Sheff), 300 medley relay...
...lost the 50-yard freestyle to Rutgers' Bob Nugent; this year the Elis Kerry Donovan, who will beat Nugent. Last year, the Elis lost the 100 and 200-yard breast-stroke events to Princeton's Bob Brawner; Brawner has graduated, and the Elis have both Dennis O'Connor and Stanton Smith...
...fastest combinations going in every event. With Kerry Donovan in the sprints, Dick Thoman in the back-stroke, Dennis O'Connor and Stanton Smith in the breast-stroke, plus some in- credibly fast relay teams, the Elis may well surpass more than a few marks...
...assassin while mourning the brother. In the one role, Edwin reimbursed the Virginia farmer whose barn had been burned down around brother John. In the other, he pleaded with the authorities to allow the Booths to give John's body Christian burial. He wrote to Secretary of War Stanton, who did not deign to reply. He wrote to General Grant, who ignored him too. It was President Andrew Johnson who at last handed over John's remains, the raven-black hair grown long, the body mutilated by official autopsies...