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...Frank Kiggins White, 53, president of the National Broadcasting Co., who succeeded Joseph McConnell only six months ago, resigned "for reasons of health," and his duties were temporarily taken over by RCA-NBC Chairman David Sarnoff. White has been in ill health almost from the time he took over NBC, was forced to relinquish more and more of his duties...
...members: General Omar Bradley, Scientist Vannevar Bush, President Milton S. Eisenhower of Penn State College, Office of Defense Mobilization Chief Arthur Flemming, former Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett, RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff...
...Board Chairman David Sarnoff promised an RCA video tape recorder within two years, and a presentation, by the industry, of the case for color TV before the Federal Communications Commission within three months. He also departed from his prepared address to kick subscription TV in its coin box. Said Sarnoff: "I sincerely believe that pay-as-you-see television on a national basis will prove to be a snare and a delusion." Instead, Sarnoff urged the broadcasters to stay close, as always, to their advertisers...
Colorado's Senator Edwin Johnson, one of the staunchest advocates in Congress of CBS color, recently swung to RCA, wrote Board Chairman David Sarnoff: "Your efforts in devising a compatible television system will long be remembered as a magnificent achievement of science . . . There may be those who may desire to drag their feet at this point. Please do not allow them to slow you down. Please keep up the steam...
Electronics Pioneer David Sarnoff, chairman of the Radio Corporation of America, last week took a look into the future. At the Manhattan convention of the Institute of Radio Engineers, he predicted these developments in the next seven years...