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Married. Esme O'Brien, 22, much photographed glamor girl of 1938; and Robert William Sarnoff, 23, Naval Reserve ensign, son of R.C.A. Chief David Sarnoff; in Washington...
...performers did their bits from Hollywood, the Secretary of the Navy and the Under Secretary of War spoke from Washington, NBC's newsmen in London, Manhattan and Buenos Aires helloed and jested by short wave. Board Chairman David Sarnoff's baronial voice came in from a liner in mid-Pacific. That moment reminded a few elders present of the night nearly 30 years ago when the same Sarnoff made his name-as the first operator to catch the primitive wireless signals and distress calls of another liner, the Titanic, as she went down...
...raid alarm for the private home, estimated price $15, was last week demonstrated by R.C.A. President David Sarnoff to Civilian Defense Director Fiorello LaGuardia. The gadget: a box the size of a portable radio which rings a bell and flashes a light when a radio warning signal is sent...
...engineers try to improve radio's present, dope out its future. Equipped to examine everything from a $9 receiver to the most complicated electronic devices, the research units are the best in existence. But the best isn't good enough for RCA. Last week RCA President David Sarnoff announced that the company was preparing to build at Princeton, N. J. "the world's largest radio research laboratories," complete with lecture auditorium and RCA's combined technical and patent libraries...
...service, many a Reserve officer may find himself soldiering under civilian bigwigs who have been long in the Organized Reserves. Examples: David Sarnoff, president of Radio Corp. of America and colonel in the Signal Corps; Camoufleur Homer Schiff Saint Gaudens, lieut. colonel in the Corps of Engineers; Cineman Cecil Blount De Mille, major in the Signal Corps; U. S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., captain of Cavalry; Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbilt...