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PAUL AHCHIN AIID liriHKllT MACIDOFF JIM WAHL SIDNEY ALBRIGHT HARBISON FOHMAN UPTtJN CLOSE enlarged. New bureaus were opened in Moscow, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Ankara, Stockliolm, \\'arsaw, Madrid and in the Balkans. From these reporters, American lis- teners received an almost day-by-day report of Europe's march to war. NBC i7ien flashed to the United States the first news of Hitler's march into Po- land, September 1, 1939. Two days later, they fla.shed the news of the Brit- i.sh and French declarations of war on Germany and Italy. As the war burst into new fur\- w ilh Hitler's conquest of Poland, NBC established schedules for European broadcasts. There were regular reports Iroin London, Berlin, Paris and other cities. NBC reporters brought their listeners a Christmas broadcast from a fortress deep within the Maginot line; also one from Hitler's Siegfried line. Thev gave their listeners the first sound of British air|ilancs taking off to meet Nazi air- men in battle. Listeners to a broadcast b\- Paul .\ichinard, then in Paris, were startled [10 RADIO AGE 1 by the sound of an air raid warning. Archinard's regular broadcast from Paris was suddenh' halted when the siren shrieked its warning. .Archinard and the technicians huiTiedly left the studio but the microphone was still "live." American listeners to NBC heard the eerie wail of the Paris air raid sirens. What is probablv radio's biggest news scoop, the .scuttling of the Ger- man pocket battleship, the Graf Spec, was another NBC feat. No sooner had a British cruiser squadron dri\en the Graf Spec into .Montevideo Harbor than NBC's Jimmv Bowen was on the job. Bowen set up his microphone on the Montevideo waterfront. He broadcast se\eral eye- witness descriptions of the Graf Spec's arrival. Then he stood bv to bring his listeners a report of what was to trans- pire as the hour for the Graf Spec's departure under International Law ar- ri\ed. Bowen had just finished a dramatic on-the-spot account from the harbor and signed off as NBC continued its regularly scheduled broadcasting from New York. But. b\- what is known as a "cue channel," an open radio telephone circuit, contact was maintained be- tween the New York news room and Bowen's position overlooking Monte- video Harbor. A few minutes passed and then Bowen screamed o\er the "cue chan- nel": "Give me the air again! The Graf Spec has blown up! It is being scut- tled." In a matter of seconds, Bowen was on the air again to give American lis- teners the dramatic story of the scut- tling of the Graf Spec in the harbor. NBC scored another major scoop in the Spring of 1940, but unfortunately it could not be broadcast. Through his own sources of informaticm. Jordan learned that Hitler planned to iinadi' Denmark and Norway. But he couldn't publicly reveal his information. So, he dispatched a routine radio- gram to NBC in New York, announc- (Continiicd on piiiir 24) PETER BRENNAN BJORN BJORNSON CHARLES LARIUS