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Hearty is David Sarnoff's dislike for Horatioalgerian accounts of his 42 years upon earth. To inquisitive reporters the chunky, bustling president of Radio Corp. of America always hands out three mimeographed sheets listing in chronological order all his important dates, including his appointments in the U. S. Signal Corps, in which he now is a reserve colonel. Some Sarnoff dates...
Last week David Sarnoff added the following to his chronology...
...Elected a director of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Chairman Paul D. Cravath promptly put Director Sarnoff on the executive committee to ponder the Met's problems along with Otto Kahn, Myron Charles Taylor and Mrs. August Belmont...
...confusion, one rainy night last week NBC dedicated its new quarters with a gala program. Bland words were spoken by NBC's President Merlin Hall ("Deac") Aylesworth, RCA's Board Chairman James Guthrie Harbord, GE's Board Chairman Owen D. Young, RCA's President David Sarnoff (speaking from London) and Sir John Reith, director-general of British Broadcasting Corp. with whom the tycoons chatted across the sea. Some 1,200 invited guests, mostly radio advertisers or their emissaries, watched and listened. All this week the scientific marvels of NBC's new quarters will be unfolded...
...Senator was amiably evasive until later in the day when his great good friend, chunky David Sarnoff, president of Radio Corp. of America, presented him to the Press in R. C. A.'s magnificent new headquarters in Rockefeller Center."First," said Senator Marconi, "put me wise to what is taking place over here." He enjoys U. S. slang, asked particularly whether the phrase "cold feet" had changed meaning since 1927 when he was last in the U. S. (honeymooning with his second wife, who again accompanied him last week). Then Senator Marconi told what he has learned about...