Personal Life
Armstrong married Sarnoff's secretary, Marion McInnis, in December 1922. He gave Marion the world's first portable radio as a wedding gift. Armstrong bought a Hispano-Suiza motor car before the wedding, which they drove to Palm Beach, Florida for their honeymoon. He kept the car until his death. McInnis, who was born in 1898, was survived by two nephews and a niece after her death in 1979.
He was an avid tennis player until an injury in 1940, and drank an Old Fashioned with dinner.
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