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Regarding "six degrees of separation":

Lenox Lohr, head of NBC Radio, introduced at 03:36, was president of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago from 1940 to 1968, which is why they had an RCA-sponsored TV exhibit (first black and white, then color), which inspired me as a boy to be interested in electronics. (Lohr was based in Chicago, which was a major production hub for NBC radio network, especially soap operas.) It was Lohr who saved the museum from decline by soliciting corporate exhibit sponsors. I worked at the museum while in college in the mid 60's. The TV exhibit was gone by then, replaced by an expanded Bell System exhibit. I saw Lohr a few times; I always thought of him as "old bushy brows." I didn't learn anything about his bio until much later.