Television digest with electronic reports (Jan-Dec 1959)

13 erence bewore 1960 lines go into production. "It's my guess," he said, "that single cabinet stereo will make up 80% of next year's stereo sales." Philco tries to solve problem of stereo sound reproduction by an acoustical arrangement of cabinet doors to deflect sounds in the upper range. They're called "Stereo-Dors" and may be adjusted to achieve a satisfactory stereo effect. CBS' dual channel, single amplifier is attracting industry attention as a cost-saver, eliminating the need foi’ 2 amplifiers. Dr. Peter C. Goldmark, pres, of CBS Labs, said the single amplifier was an outgrowth of the development of a compatible stereo record which was once shown to the industry (Vol. 14-13) but has since been put back into the lab. It's being offered for license but so far has been accepted only by Heath div. of Daystrom, largest manufacturer of electronic kits. >Js ^ ^ TY-Radio Production: tv set production was 103,696 in week ended Jan. 17 vs. 91,212 preceding week & 108,806 year ago. Two-week total for 1959 was 194,908 vs. 223,198 last year. Radio production was 279,954 (109,765 auto) for the week vs. the preceding week's total of 254,021 (197,875 auto) & 239,133 (99,578 auto) last year. Total for two weeks was 533,975 (217,649 auto) vs. 456,057 (186,148 auto). Trade Personals: A. R. Hopkins, retired RCA mgr., broadcast & TV engineering products dept., named consultant to Ampex Corp., Redwood, Cal., specializing in videotape recorder sales ... Wendell R. Smith, ex-Alderson Assoc. Inc. (Philadelphia management consultants), named RCA director of marketing research & development . . . J. Frank Leach, ex-manufacturing v.p. of Amphenol Electronics, named v.p. & gen. mgr., Amphenol connector div., formed under recent merger of Amphenol and Borg Electronics. Robert E. Svoboda, ex-Amphenol distributor sales mgr., promoted to gen. mgr., Amphenol distributor div. — Dr. and Mrs. Alan Hazeltine have announced the engagement of their daughter, Maud Denise, Wellesley ’56 and M.A. of Brandeis U (where she is a candidate for a Ph.D. degree), to Ansel Burt Chapman, son of Col. Robert T. Chapman (USA ret.) and the late Mrs. Chapman, of Dedham, Mass. He’s a Princeton graduate, studied in Paris and Algiers on a Fulbright fellowship, is presently a senior at Harvard Law School . . . Dominic P. Schmit, RCA v.p., product engineering, appointed senior RCA representative in C Stellerator Assoc., management-engineering organization set up by RCA and Allis Chalmers for thermonuclear power research project at Princeton U. . . . Leonard H. Davis named to new post of v.p. & gen. counsel, Gabriel Co. . . . Keneth A. Simons promoted to chief engineer, Jerrold Electronics, in charge of research & development . . . Raymond T. Leary, ex-distributor sales mgr., promoted to v.p., Cornell-Dublier . . . H. S. Crawford, ex-Westinghouse, named purchasing agent for Packard-Bell’s technical products div. . . . Irving Sarlin promoted to eastern regional sales mgr., Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp. . . . Owen H. Klepper promoted to adv. & sales promotion director, Philco’s home laundry and air conditioner dept. . . . Joel M. Rowley, ex-General Tire, named adv. mgr., V-M Corp. . . . Eli Sammett, ex-Belock Instrument Corp., named adv. & public relations mgr., Narda Ultrasonics . . . Larry Epstein, ex-University Loudspeakers, named sales v.p.. United Audio Products . . . Herman Bergman promoted to asst, treas. of Standard Coil’s subsidiary Kollsman Instrument Corp. ■ Raytheon has sold its electrocardiograph business to Cardiotron Electro-Medical Products Labs, Bay.shore, L. I. ELECTRONICS PERSONALS: Dr. C. Guy Suits, GE v.p. & research director, awarded Wililam Proctor prize by Scientific Research Society of America . . . Walter C. Heckman, consultant in GE’s Washington defense evaluation operation, retires after 38 years with company . . . Richard W. Lee promoted to v.p. for engineering & research General Precision Laboratory. William P. Hilliard promoted to v.p. for administration & manufacturing . . . Martin J. Johnson, ex-Johnson Aircraft Engineering Co., appointed director of foreign operations. Laboratory for Electronics, Boston. Matthew B. Thorp, ex-United Services Assoc., becomes Washington rep. . . . Robert E. S. Thompson, ex-pres. of Thompson Trailer Corp., named exec, v.p., Chesapeake Industries . . . Alan G. Richards, ex-Bourns Labs, named asst, sales mgr., Daystrom’s potentiometer div. . . . Charles L. Hulswit, pres, of Orange & Rockland Utilities, Nyack, N.Y., elected a director of Dynamics Corp of America. Obituary Alexander M. MacLennan, 64, retired asst. v.p. for public relations of ITT, died Jan. 19 while visiting at Del Ray Beach, Fla. RCA’s 10 fellowships for advanced studies in engineering, physics, dramatic arts, bring total awards to 130 since program started in 1947. This year’s recipients of fellowships, worth about $3500 each, will study at New York U, Columbia U, Cal. Tech, Cornell, Princeton, Rutgers, Carnegie Tech, Yale, Illinois, Purdue. RCA also has awarded 63 undergraduate scholarships, $800 each, which went to 30 students in fields related to electronics & broadcasting, 30 studying to be teachers of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology & general science, 3 honor graduates of RCA institutes. GE’s Annual Edison Radio Amateur Award for 1958 goes to Julius M. J. Madey, 18, Clark, N.J., who spent average of 90 hours weekly sending messages to personnel on isolated Antarctic, Arctic & South Pacific bases. Presentation of trophy and .$500 will be made at dinner in Washington Feb. 26, at Sheraton Carlton Hotel.