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IN TIME OF W.Ui, THE COPY DESK IX THE NEWS HOOM, RADIO CITY, NEW YOHK, IS A SCENE OF MLCH ACTIVITY. LATEST NEWS REPOHTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD ABE RECEIVED HERE AND PREPARED FOR BROADCASTING. woik, .American listoners were fiillv and realisticallv informed of the trag- edy that impended. As the war eloiids gathered over Eii- rope in 1939, NBC aheady had in operation bureaus in London, England, and Ba.sle, Switzerland. From London. Fred Bate covered the British Isles. From Basle, Max Jordan coxered con- tinental Europe. Jordan was directed to estahlisli Eu- ropean-wide radio co\erage for \BC as war became all but a foregone con- clusion. There were in those days no tried and experienced radio reporters, [ordan began assembling a staff in the European capitols. He began from .scratch. He taught his men how to talk into a microphone; when to talk; how to arrange broadcast facilities, and how to establish impregnable lines of com- munication. Meanwhile, he commuted by air between all the major cities of Europe, covering the news himself. NBC's first major test was the Mu- nich crisis in September of 1938. On the night of the signing of the Munich pact, September 29, 1938, Jordan scored one of his greatest NBC scoops. Over NBC facilities, he was the first to broadcast to America the full text of the now infamous Munich agree- ment. He was a lull hour aiiead ot his ri\als. In the davs following Munich. Bate and [ordan worked night and day to establish a competent and compreiien- sive news staff to co\er the holocaust that was to follow. The NBC bureaus in London and Basle were considerably a r ^ v: RICHARD TEXNELLY M.VRTIX .\r,BOXSKY JOHN MCVAXK RADIO AGE 9