Broadcasting (July - Dec 1937)

NBC ANNOUNCERS' HANDBOOK Dr. William A. Neiison Named Committee Head To Prepare Book oi English and Foreign Pronunciation TED KIMBALL, formerly with NBC in Washington, has joined the announcing staff of KDYL, Salt Lake City. George Snell, KDYL publicity director, has sold a book-length juvenile novel to Caxton Printers. Bstelle Farmer and Macksene Smith have joined the KDYL office staff. DAVID FREDERICK of the continuity staff of KFRU, Columbia, Mo., has been promoted to the research department. R. CALVERT HAWS, formerly production program director at WGFL, ■Chicago, has been appointed producer of the Hollywood in Person part of the CBS General Mills hour. K. W. WINSAUER, assistant program and production manager of WCCO, Minneapolis, spoke on "New Frontiers in Radio" at the annual convention of Minnesota Parent & Teachers Assn., Oct. 14. NORMAN PERRY, formerly of WIRE, Indianapolis, has joined the announcing staff of WLW-WSAI, Cincinnati, as sportcaster. IRVING CARLSON, formerly of KVCV, Redding, Cal., has joined the announcing staff of the new KSRO, Santa Rosa, Cal. HAROLD GRAMS, formerly of woe, Davenport, has joined the announcing staff of WHO, Des Moines. VERNON F. LYON, former radio specialist with the Brookings Institution in Washington, and recently in broadcasting work, is now associated with Braun & Co., Los Angeles public relations counselors. RAINE BENNETT, known as the "poet of the airlanes," has been appointed radio editor of the Los Angeles Herald Express. FERDINAND BIONDI, of CKAC, Montreal, has been promoted to program producer. Flavins Daniel has been transferred to the traffic department. New announcers are Pierre Normandin and Alain Gravel. BERT GERVIS, formerly roving representative for Consolidated Radio Artists, has been appointed head of the firm's Chicago ofBce succeeding Leo Salkin, who recently resigned. BILL HALEY, formerly of KMOX, St. Louis, has joined the staff of KFRU, Columbia, Mo. LARRY PAYNE, announcer of WIBM, Jackson, Mich., and Miss Jane Priskey, were married Oct. 28. FRED MIEGLE, chief announcer of WTMV, E. St. Louis, and Miss Adele Zahrndt, daughter of Walter W. Zahrndt, of the Kelly, Stuhlman & Zahrndt agency, were married Oct. 20. TO BE entitled Broadcast Speech — NBC's Handbook for Announcers and Speakers, the book's publication at an early date was assured Oct. 25 when NBC announced that Dr. William Allan Neilson, president of Smith College and international authority on the English language, has been named head of a committee to compile data. The purpose of the book, according to NBC, is to furnish a complete reference source for the occasional radio speaker and for the general public as well as to provide a practical text book for announcers. Subdivided into various classifications, the contents of the handbook have been planned to include the correct pronunciation of American words often mispronounced; correct pronunciation of American and foreign place names; nronunciation of foreign words and terms, is used to record news at the scene of action. The complete instrument weighs only 35 lbs., operates on house current or an automatic bat tery, makes 12 " records suitable for broadcasting. Mark HaWley, ace newscaster, heads new Intercontinental organi Only the Presto Green Seal Disc could be depended upon to journey half way around the world and arrive in perfect condition. especially Latin expressions of current usage and the names of wellknown foreign personages; a short table of elementary rules for pronunciation of German, French, Italian and Spanish words suited to American speech and a list of "Don'ts" dictated by euphony. The handbook will also include technical musical terms and foreign musical phrases; the names of foreign musical artists and composers and the pronunciation of general technical terms, mechanical and medical. Many idioms and phrases that have been introduced by radio speech and now have found general acceptance in the language will be listed in a special section. Dr. Neilson was editor of Webster's New International Dictionary and was associate editor of the Harvard Classics. He holds seven degrees from American and foreign universities, has been a professor of English here and abroad and is the author of numerous books on English literature. WSVA Post Not Filled After Death of Williams WITH Charles P. Blackley, commercial manager, now in charge, the managership of WSVA, Harrisonburg, Va., left vacant by the death on Sept. 14 of Floyd Williams, has not yet been determined. Mr. Williams, 47, was 62% owner of the station, with Mr. Blackley owning 20% and Marion K. Gilliam, of Asbury Park, N. J., 18%. Mr. Williams died as a result of a heart attack. He joined WSVA in 1935 as program director, having formerly been administrative chief of the Washington Bicentennial Commission and clerk of the Senate Rules Committee. In former years he was well known as the "Flying Tenor of the Air", making weekly trips from Washington to New York where he sang over NBC. He was also soloist of WOV, New York, for several years. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mabel Linton Williams, and two sisters, Mrs. Herman Mitts and Miss Lola Williams, all of Washington. Gene Carmen GENE CARMEN, 32, nationally known as the writer and producer of several well-known transcription serials, died at Pioneer Hospital, Hollywood, on Oct. 18 following a lingering illness. He had been in radio since 1931 and was under contract to C. P. MacGregor, Hollywood transcription concern. He had written numerous outstanding programs, among them Problems of Pamela, which was recently retitled Stars Over Hollywood, and the Moving Stories of Life series. Surviving are his widow and two children. EDWARD H. HARRIS, publisher of the Richmond (Ind.) Palladium, and former chairman of the radio committee of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, died at his home in Richmond Oct. 24 at the age of 57. WGTM, Wilson, N. C. averages 75 local advertisers daily although it has been on the air only since July 18. PRESTO RECORDERS MAKE WORLDWIDE PICKUP FOR NEW RADIO PROGRAM. Voices of men and women who make the world's news — eyewitness accounts of news events as they happen in all parts of the world — will be heard in a new program series, shortly to be released to radio stations throughout the country. 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