American Broadcasting Company a proposal for UPT to purchase ABC. Noble received other offers, including one from CBS founder William S. Paley; however, a merger with CBS would have forced that network to sell its New York City and Los Angeles stations at the very least. Goldenson and Noble reached a tentative agreement in the late spring of 1951 in which UPT would acquire ABC and turn it into a subsidiary of the company that would retain autonomy in its management. On June 6, 1951, the tentative agreement was approved by UPT's board of directors. However, the transaction had to be approved by
Edward P. J. Corbett in Columbus, Ohio. Edward P. J. Corbett Edward Patrick Joseph, P.J., Corbett was an American rhetorician, educator, and scholarly author. Corbett wrote several books, including "Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student", "The Writing Teacher's Sourcebook", "The Elements of Reasoning", "Style and Statement", and "The Little English Handbook: Choices and Conventions". Corbett taught and did research in the English departments of Creighton University and Ohio State University. As a result of his work, the Edward P. J. Corbett Award is named after him. In 1982 Thomas Willard singled out Corbett as an outstanding "contemporary rhetorician." Corbett died on June 24, 1998