Swing (Jan-Dec 1953)

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STUDIO "A" (left) contained record turntables and announcers' control board. (Below) JOHN T. SCHILLING as he looked in '32. 1932 . "WHB GREETS YOU FROM PENT IN MAY, 1931, Cook's decided to enlarge the WHB Staff by employing an advertising executive. Don Davis, who was then a partner in the advertising agency of Loomis, Baxter, Davis & Whalen, had in 1927 plunged with both feet into radio. As an agency man, he was writing European travelogues given on WMAQ in Chicago for The Travel Guild by OUTDOOR STUDIO (right) on Scarritt Building Roof. The K. U. Band plays a concert. PENTHOUSE GRILL had a soda fountain, tables for twenty, and did a thriving business with studio visitors. This room now houses WHB Newsbureau. Bill Hay, the Amos & Andy announcer. He had sold "Easy Aces", at that time just becoming known in Kansas City, to Arthur S. Bird for Bird's Drugs. For Loose-Wiles Candy, he produced in Hollywood one of the earliest dance band transcription programs, by Earf* Burtnett's Orchestra from the Hotel Biltmore, featuring the Burtnett Trio and Jess Kirkpatrick. For Cook's, Davis had launched "The Cook Painter Boys" orchestra.