Radio: In There Swinging

When FCC made its color TV decision in favor of CBS (TIME, Oct. 23), RCA's scrappy Board Chairman David Sarnoff apparently did not hear the bell ending the fight. Last month he won a temporary injunction restraining the FCC decision. Last week, still in there swinging, he personally ran a demonstration of RCA's improved color TV system in Washington. More than 100 newsmen and businessmen saw color pictures that were brighter, more stable and had much better definition than any RCA color previously shown.

Observers who had seen both systems felt that RCA's color was still not quite so good as that...

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