Presto

WORLD'S LARGEST RADIO LABORATORIES TO
BE BUILT BY RCA AT PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
The world's largest radio research lal(oratories will be built
by the Radio Corporation of America, at Princeton, X. J., David
Sarnoff, President of RCA, announced today. It will be known
as "RCA Laboratories," and will be the headquarters for all re-
search and original development work of RCA, and for its patent
and licensing activities. The new organization is planned to pro-
mote the growth of radio as an art and industry, and to meet
the expanding demands of national defense.
COLUMBIA APPOINTS
BIRMINGHAM
DISTRIBUTOR
Appointment of the Watts-Xewsome Company, 1705 First
Avenue North, Birmingham, Alabama, as Columbia Records dis-
tributor in the Birmingham area has been announced by Paul
Southard, Sales Manager for Columbia Recording Corporation.
The Watts-Newsonie Company started operations about March
10th.
STEWART-WARNER
PRESENTS AN ULTRA
MODERN RADIO-PHONOGRAPH
COMBINATION
Modern in the ultimate degree is this radio-phonograph com-
bination shown at a recent Contemporary Decorative Arts ex-
hibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. The
super-modern combination, manufactured by Stewart-Warner
Corporation, Chicago, has a cabinet of chemically processed
mahogany composition. It was styled by Gilbert Rhode, New
York industrial designer and noted correlater of strictly modern
interiors.
/. Warren Butler
MAGNAVOX ADDS DISTINGUISHED
DISTRICT SALES MANAGER
T. Warren Butler lias been appointed District Sales Manager
for Magnavox in the Southeast territory, according to an an-
nouncement by Mr. L. M. Sandwick. Magnavox Sales Manager.
"Mr. Butler comes to Magnavox with a wealth of experience
in the radio and music business," said Mr. Sandwick. "His train-
ing and merchandising and his knowledge of dealers' problems
will make him of inestimable value to the dealers he will serve."
After graduating from Georgia Tech and the Harvard Business
School. Mr. Butler was associated with the Polk Musical Supply
Corporation of Atlanta. Georgia. Later he was connected with
RCA in their factory merchandising operations and he comes to
Magnavox from the radio division of the General Flectric Com-
pany.
"A prerequisite of successful radio retailing is a quality line of
combinations incorporating price and territory protection." com-
mented Mr. Butler. "The public is fast becoming conscious of
the superlative tone reproduction now possible from both radio
and records and it is now insisting on furniture style cabinets.
1 am greatly enthused about mv new connection, for 1 know the
Magnavox line answers the public demand for quality and the
dealer's demand for sound merchandising practice."
CAPEIIART MAN ELECTED PRESIDENT OE
PORT WAYNE. INDIANA, WELSH SOCIETY
Claude H. Davies, assistant sales manager of The Capehart
Division of Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation was
elected President of The St. David's Society of Fort Wayne,
Indiana, at the St. David's Day celebration, Saturdav evening,
March 1st. St. David is the Patron Saint of Wales.
A banquet given at the Fort Wayne Hotel was followed by a
splendid program of addresses and instrumental and vocal music.
In Wales singing is the great pastime and recreation of the
people who really love to sing. Congratulations Claude!
APRIL, 1941
PACK TWKNTY-SKVEN
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