David Sarnoff in 1906

              David Sarnoff  (February 27, 1891 – December 12, 1971)

David Sarnoff  was a businessman and pioneer of commercial radio and television
and led the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and the National Broadcasting
Company throughout most most of his career until his retirement in 1970. He
was named a Reserve Brigadier General of the Signal Corps in 1945 and was
thereafter widely known as “The General.”

General Sarnoff

RCA Chairman David Sarnoff (right) and RCA president Franklin
Folsom are shown with an RCA color TV set in 1956. 

"Pony Time" was Chubby Checker’s second number-one hit, after
”The Twist” the previous year. The song introduced another new
dance style.

 
Chubby turned 70 in October

Uggie, from the film The Artist, arrives at the first annual
Golden Collar Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 13.

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Although there have been talks of both a prequel and sequel, as of this date,
no production has begun.

Forrest Gump is one of the early movies to showcase the many 
possibilities of using CGI (computer-generating images),
demonstrating that it isn’t just science-fiction films.

Forrest with President Johnson