Word: stantons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...childless Stantons live in a five-room Manhattan apartment that glitters with glass, polished woods and geometric abstractions. It looks a little like a wing of the Museum of Modern Art, but somehow seems to be comfortable, too. Stanton himself decorated the apartment, as well as his own and several other CBS offices'. He is probably one of the few men in the U.S. in his income group who has neither a country place nor any servants. Ruth Stanton does all the cooking and cleaning in the apartment. Says she: "It makes for flexibility and it's good...
Like her husband, attractive, dark-haired Ruth Stanton, 42, dislikes a busy social life. When they must entertain for business reasons, they do it outside their apartment. Calmly accepting her husband's round-the-clock work habits, Ruth Stanton says: "He'd work just as hard running a chicken farm...
...hard work, every now and then, results in insomnia. Says Arthur Godfrey, who is an enthusiastic Stanton admirer: "We each have a phone beside our beds. When he can't sleep, or I can't, one calls the other. We ring once and hang up-that's the signal. If the other's awake, he calls back and says, 'What the hell are you doing...
...Stanton has only a cursory interest in sports. One of his top CBS stars recalls that Stanton was once trapped into a softball game. "We found out that he couldn't throw from short to first, and he struck out three times." But in his CBS office, "Stanton is playing his own game, and he's a real homerun-hitting executive...
Meanwhile, the U.S. public doesn't know what to buy. Asked when he thought color TV would be seen generally throughout the U.S., CBS's Frank Stanton could give only an iffy answer. If the courts do not rule against CBS; if congressional probes do not hold up the FCC decision; if U.S. rearmament does not absorb the electronics industry; if there are no serious shortages of essential materials- waving away all these ifs, Stanton believes that color will be transmitted from all U.S TV stations by the end of 1952. That means that even if things move...