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In 1971, the funeral business was purchased by Service Corporation International. [2] A year later, after spinning off its remaining non-entertainment assets, Kinney National Services renamed itself Warner Communications [ 4 ] with Rosenthal serving as vice chairman of Warner Communications from 1972 until 1983.
Volney Frank Warner (7 June 1926 – 13 November 2019) was a United States Army four-star general who served as Commander-in-Chief, United States Readiness Command (USCINCRED) from 1979 to 1981. [ 1 ]
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
John William Warner III (February 18, 1927 – May 25, 2021) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974 and as a five-term Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1979 to 2009, and is both the longest serving Republican Senator from Virginia, and the second longest serving Senator from Virginia behind Democrat Harry F. Byrd.
Sam Warner, however, was able to convince the high-ups to sign with the studio after his wife Lina, who was not Jewish, wore a gold cross at a dinner they attended with the Western Electric brass. [68] Harry Warner then signed a partnership agreement with Western Electric to use Bell Laboratories to test the sound-on-film process. [69]
Vincent Waydell Warner Jr. (December 27, 1940 – June 9, 2024) was an American Episcopalian bishop. He was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia from 1990 to 2007.
In 1989, he was instrumental in the merger between Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc. He was co-chairman of Time-Warner, with Steven J. Ross. He retired in 1990. [5] [6] From 1984 to 1994, he was a trustee of RAND Corporation. [7]
In 1979, needing financing to further expand its cable television business, Ross partnered with American Express, convincing its executives on the potential of selling AmEx credit cards direct to Warner cable TV customers. Warner-AmEx Cable was established and Warner received a much needed capital injection. AmEx's cross-sale expectations never ...