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Black & White Ahead. CBS argued that its "sequential" system* was commercially feasible. Its sets could be made for only 10 to 30% more than black & white ones (actually, CBS presented no plans to have them mass-produced). But the most potent argument of CBS's President Frank Stanton was that color was the only thing which could really get public interest. The public could take black & white or leave it alone. (Even now there are only about 10,000 black & white receivers in use.) But the public would go for television color as it had gone for color...
Ralph, according to his bureau chief, John Stanton, is a warm, round, emotional, faintly picaresque Mexican who somehow "manages to remind you vaguely of Queen Victoria." His seemingly inexhaustible, elastic and highly valuable know-how is the result of all that Ralph has been and is. His familiarity with Mexican ways is perhaps best exemplified by his faith in the power of documents. Unimpressed by the ordinary correspondent's press card, he designed his own. It has space for his photograph, for numerous stamps -also of his own design-and for signatures and counter-signatures. The TIME bureau chief...
...Bureau Chief Stanton says: "No matter how early the resident correspondent gets to work, Ralph is there first. He sits at his desk sternly reading the newspapers. As he reads he comments on the news with his hands. He forms a circle with thumb and first finger : someone has done just the right thing. He touches his eye with his forefinger: Ralph has just read a great truth. He forms a cross with his thumb and first finger and kisses the cross: Ralph is adding his testimony to the great truth. He stands and faces the bureau chief...
...Hermann Goring kill himself? How did he manage, in the midst of defeat and humiliation, to become a hero and thus virtually to destroy the positive psychological effect of the Nürnberg trial? From Nürnberg, TIME Correspondent John Stanton cabled...
...Edwin M. Stanton and President Rutherford B. Hayes...