- JOHN TREVOR ADAMS
MOUNT KISCO --
Broadcasting pioneer and concert impresario John Trevor, Adams, 71, brother of A. F. Adams of Petersville Farm, died at his home in Indian Rocks Beach, Fla. yesterday. He also had maintained a home in Alna, Maine.
A native of New York City, Adams attended Princeton University and then became associated with his father, A.F. Adams founder of the Wolfson Musical Bureau, in the concert-business. He helped to introduce such musical personalities as Jascha Heifetz, Tetrazzini and Efrem Zimbalist,
In his varied career, Adams formed Judson Radio, served as director of radio for an advertising agency, was president of the Texas State Radio Network and with Elliott Roosevelt, founded the Transcontinental Broadcasting Co. At one time, he was also general manager of New York's WMCA.
Adams returned to concert management in 1946. He retired in 1955 to his Maine home, spending his winters here.
He leaves his widow Alice; a son, Robert F., who is sales director of WKBK, the ABC television affiliate in Chicago, and a daughter, Mrs. Patricia Adams Lent of North Pomfret, Vt. Another son, the late Trevor Adams, had been general manager of WABC-TV, in New York.
Other survivors are two, sisters, Mrs. Katherine McCall of New York City and Mrs. MacConald Gillespie of Darien, Conn.
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1891 - 1962 (71 years)
