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...Winner. CBS President Frank Nicholas Stanton, 42, who spearheaded the CBS color fight, stands just under 6 ft. and weighs 175 Ibs. His expression is at once attentive and stolid; his strong jaw is often clamped firmly on a pipestem. A certain lack of facial animation, together with his carefully parted, yellow-blond hair, have led wags to call him "the Veronica Lake...
...Stanton's success story makes Horatio Alger seem believable. Last year he signed a ten-year, million-dollar contract with CBS, and bonuses will raise his annual income to $130,000. Last month he had the heady experience of turning down a job, for which he could "name his own price," offered him by rival RCA. Refusing jobs has become almost a matter of routine. In his 15 years at CBS he has said no (sometimes repeatedly) to Pollsters Elmo Roper and Nielsen, FORTUNE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and two other universities, three advertising firms, assorted Government agencies...
...early years in Dayton were more often spent seeking jobs than being sought after. Of Yankee and German Swiss stock, the son of a high-school manual training teacher, Stanton started earning money as a newsboy. After school he worked at the Metropolitan men's clothing store where he progressed from stock boy to window trimmer and showcard artist. His former boss, Richard Meyer, recalls that Stanton was wise beyond his years: "We used to get into arguments about religion and sex -on a very serious plane. Most fellows his age didn't worry about those things...
Meat for the Grinder. During his four years at Ohio Wesleyan University, Stanton continued to work at the Metropolitan, commuting 90 miles to Dayton every weekend. He also found time to be elected president of the senior honorary society and of his fraternity, Phi Delta Theta; to be put on probation for his part in the production of a college musical, some of whose lines offended the Methodist sensibilities of Ohio Wesleyan's faculty, and to split a $2,100 profit as editor of the college yearbook, which was illustrated by a boyhood chum who later became well-known...
...Ohio Wesleyan, Stanton vacillated between a pre-med course and a psychology major. When he graduated in 1930, he was offered an advertising job by Philadelphia's N. W. Ayer on the basis of his work on the college yearbook, but before he could report for work, the depression had changed N. W. Ayer's mind. Stanton hurriedly grabbed a job at Ohio State as graduate assistant (salary: $750 a year), married Ruth Stephenson, the girl he'd been going with since he was 14, and for three years worked as a part-time teacher while writing...