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Radio. Directors of RCA promoted Frank M. Folsom, 54, from executive vice president to president, on the say-so of Chairman David Sarnoff, who has been doubling as president. A merchandising expert for over 30 years, Folsom was once a vice president of Montgomery Ward, served as assistant chief of Navy procurement for nearly two years during World War II, and joined RCA in 1944. Folsom, who will share top responsibility with Sarnoff (still chief executive officer), was full of beans about television. Said he: "Television is ... two years ahead of the most optimistic post-war forecasts . . . Today there...
Jimmy Petrillo's lawyer had gotten together with RCA Boss David Sarnoff, representing the record makers. The compromise was simple: the union musicians relaxed their demands for royalties on all records sold since the Jan. i ban, in return for fatter royalties to come when the presses start cutting records. The new rates: 1% of the retail price of all records selling under $1 and a "slight increase" in royalties on records costing more than...
...diagrams) must first be photographed on a strip of movie film. Using a kind of modified television technique, the film is "scanned" by a "flying spot" of light. At the receiving station another flying spot reproduces the material on another strip of film. When Ultrafax is really rolling, said Sarnoff, it can transmit 1,000,000 words a minute...
...Sarnoff did not say very much about just how long it takes to prepare the film for Ultrafax to transmit. It must have been a weary business to photograph Gone With the Wind, page by page.* Present methods of putting printed matter on film (and RCA mentioned no improvement) are still slow, compared with the speed Ultrafax can boast in transmission...
Ultrafax will probably send few novels. But, said Sarnoff, it can duplicate movie films (such as newsreels) almost instantaneously at any distance. It can send whole newspapers. Perhaps it heralds the day when the newspaper reader, on his way to breakfast, will stop off in the living room to watch the "printing" of his morning paper...