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 Miller (musician) of the Most Noble the Marquis of Rockingham" (London, n. d.), and Fetis states that he began a translation of J. J. Rousseau's "Dictionnaire de la Musique," of which a few proofs of the first eighteen pages were printed, but no more. Miller arranged the tune "Rockingham" as a hymn tune in 1790, to which Isaac Watts' hymn ""When I Survey the Wondrous Cross"" is sung. Miller also wrote the tune "Galway", to which Charles Wesley's hymn ""A charge to keep I have"" is sung. He died at Doncaster on 12 September 1807. Edward Miller (musician) Edward Miller (1731 or