L. W. Frohlich

Ludwig William Frohlich was born on July 30, 1913, in Frankfurt, Germany into a Jewish family.^[2][1][3] He received his B.S. in 1931 at the age of 18 from Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.^[2] He studied also at the École Diderot(?) and the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in France.^[2] His specialty was type design and art direction.^[4]

In 1935,^[1] after Hitler took power,^[1] he moved to the United States as an exchange student, lived at International House of New York, later, became a trustee, and organized the alumni association.^[2] In 1938, Frohlich became an American citizen.^[2]

• L. W. Frohlich & Co./Intercon International,^[5] a pharmaceutical advertising agency, founded in 1941, main office in NYC^[2][6]
• IMS International, a market research company in the fields of chemistry, medicine, pharmacy, airlines and optics, founded in 1954, offices throughout the world^[2]
• National Science Network, a chain of FM radio stations^[2][7]

• WNCN in New York^{[2][8][9][10]}
• WDHF in Chicago^[2]
• KPPC (defunct)^[11]
• KPPC (AM)^{[12][11][13][14]}
• KPPC (FM)^[11][15]
• KMPX (FM)^[16][17][18]

The Concert Network, Inc.^[19] (initiated in 1955,^[20] reorganized from General Broadcasting Corporation^[21][22]), was a network of FM stations owned by T. Mitchell Hastings, Jr.,^[23][24] that primarily provided classical music programming, originating^[25] from WBCN in Boston, with affiliates that included: WHCN in Hartford, Connecticut, WNCN in New York City,^[26][27] WRCN in Riverhead, New York on Long Island and WXCN (first in chain^[28]) in Providence, Rhode Island.

In November 1969, The National Science Network, Inc. purchased KMPX (FM) in San Francisco, and KPPC (AM) and KPPC-FM in Pasadena from Crosby-Pacific Broadcasting Company for a combined $1,084,000.

Arthur Sackler was a career-long "cooperative" competitor and friend.^[1]

Frohlich had a villa on the island of Elba.^[2] In January 1971, Frohlich was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and he died in September.^[4] Frohlich was a bachelor, his sister, a Mrs. Burns^[12] of New York, was his only immediate survivor.^[2]