Broadcasting (July - Dec 1939)

■STEELE MORRIS, for nine years ac [iiount executive of Lord & Thomas. Los Angeles, has joined the CBS Hollywood sales promotion department. He succeeds Oscar (Bob) Reichenbach, resigned. Henriette Martin has resigned to join the writing staff ]of 20th Century-Fox Studios. FRED A. PALMER, manager of the Arizona Network, has been re-elected ; to the directorate of the Phoenix 'jChamber of Commerce. jDAVID SARNOFF, president of .''RCA and chairman of the board of INBC, on Oct. 13 addressed the 75th J annual convocation of the University ' of the State of New York in Albany, speaking on "Radio and Education". ROY HUGHES, KOY, Phoenix, account executive, has been appointed captain of the local Community Chest campaign. BRADLEY R. EIDMAN, national sales manager of WAAF, Chicago, was in Hollywood during mid-October on station business. DAN GANN, salesman of KCKN, Kansas City, Kan., recently married i Wretha Seaton, conductor of the : KCKN Shopping Guide. The couple . was married by Evan Fry, formerly head of the KCKN continuity department and also an ordained minister, who is now with KANS, Wichita, Kan. A. .J. ABRAHAMS, of the sales staff of WWL, New Orleans, has left the staff to return to his Baltimore home. ROBERT R. TINCHER, manager of WNAX, Yankton, S. D., is the father of a girl born Oct. 14. .JOHN BROWN, new to radio, has joined the sales staff of KOWH, Omaha. NBC Publicity Shifts PARTIAL reorganization of NBC's New York publicity division followed the resignation, Oct. 21, of John Graham, trade news editor, and Edwin Curtin, with the network's press staff for the last ten years, most recently as editor of the weekly clip sheet. Charles Pekor, in charge of publicity on sponsored programs, has been given the trade news post as well. Arthur B. Donegan, for the past two years on the New York publicity staff of Warner Brothers Pictures and formerly in newspaper work, has joined the staff as assistant to Pekor. Jack Miles, staff writer who has taken over the clip sheet, will b3 assisted by another newcomer, Fred Mears, formerly with United Press and the Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman Review. Frank Oliver FRANK OLIVER, 64, a member of the first player group of WGY, Schenectady, died Oct. 15 after an illness of several weeks. He made his first stage appearance at the age of 10 in London, and while at WGY in 193.5 observed his 50th anniversary as an actor. His first WGY program was performed in August, 1922. Besides acting and producing, he wrote many radio dramas. Joseph Green JOSEPH GREEN, NBC orchestra conductor and musician, on Oct. 16 died of pneumonia after a major operation at Post Graduate Hospital, New York, at the age of 43. Mr. Green was formerly with John Philip Sousa's band and was a coinventor of the vibraphone. He is survived by his wife, Marguerite, his mother, two brothers and a sister. BE«IND WORTH KRAMER, formerly program director of WGAR, Cleveland, has been placed in charge of the WGAR artists service, in which capacity he v.ill concentrate on bookings for the 40-voice Negro chorus on Wings Over Jordan, which is heard weekly on CBS. Carl George, formerly production manager, has succeeded Kramer as program director. CAROL GAY. formerly of KMOX. St. Louis, has joined the announcing staff of KWK, that city. Virginia Hardy has been named secretary to V. E. Carmichael, KWK sales manager, succeeding Helen Corbett, resigned. Helen Hill, secretary to Manager Ray Dady, was married to Guy Miller Oct. 14. HARRY McTIGUE, General Mills sports announcer, has been assigned to handle the AVashington Redskins pro football games over WOL, replacing Tony Wakeman. Change was ordered by Brad Robinson, Knox-Reeves sports chief. J. KENNETH JONES, formerly of the continuity staff of WHAS, Louisville, has been named director of information of the Federal Radio Education Committee in Washington. WALLY SHELDON, formerly of the announcing staff of WCAU, Philadelphia, has resigned to join WSAN, Allentown. Pa., as assistant program director. Louis Fisher, formerly of WCAM, Camden, N. J., succeeds him at WCAU. MRS. R. DEAN JOHNSON BETWEEN talks to civic groups almost daily, duties as personal shopper, conducting style shows, making trips to New York and Hollywood, judging bathing beauty and baby contests — to say nothing of writing and portraying Joanne Taylor daily for the John Taylor Dry Goods Co., on KMBC— Mrs. Johnson is just about the busiest person in Kansas City. She got into radio by accident. A graduate of Missouri U Journalism School, Mrs. Johnson attracted the attention of an agency executive with her writing, and she became Joanne Taylor July 5, 1935. Under her direction the program, now in its seventh year, has become an outstanding example of the successful use of radio by a department store. CAUGHT at his desk during a momentary pause in the day's activities is Archie S. Grinalds, recently appointed sales manager of WSAI, Cincinnati, by General Manager Dewey Long. Grinalds joined WSAI a year ago, coining from WAGA, Atlanta. Previously he had been with WET, Charlotte, and WMAZ, Macon, Ga. With Grinald's appointment. Manager Long announced transfer of Meredith Runck to the WSAI sales department from the research and statistical department of WLW. RAY COFFIN, formerly Hollywood divisional manager of the defunct Atlas Radio Distributing Corp., has been placed in charge of television broadcasts of Don Lee Broadcasting System. Los Angeles, which operates W6XA0, that city. Harry R. Lubcke is television director. HAL SCHER. formerly announcer at the General Electric shortwave radio station on Treasure Island, San Francisco, has joined KSFO, San Francisco. NEIL SEARLES, formerly of WDGY, Minneapolis, KSTP, St. Paul, and more recently of WISN, Milwaukee, has joined the sports announcing staff of WOWO, Ft. Wayne, Ind. ANTONIA JACKSON, formerly of the Golden Gate International Exposition radio department, has joined the CBS production department at San Francisco, in charge of scripts. AL BARKER, formerly with the continuity department of NBC-Chicago, as author of the Don Winslow of the Navy, has rejoined the department, replacing Jack Eraser, who has resigned to free lance. BOB BOWERS, of St. Louis, has joined the announcing staff of WSJS, Winston-Salem, N. C, Ed Koops, of La Crosse, Wis., has been named continuity director. Bob Van Camp has been promoted to musical director, succeeding Elsie Tuttle, resigned. SID GOODWIN, formerly an NBC and CBS Hollywood announcer-producer, has joined the announcing staff of KFI-KECA, Los Angeles. BILL SHINGLE, formerly of WDZ, Tuscola, 111., has joined the announcing staff of WIBC, Indianapolis. PETE PRINGLE, editor of the CBS Hollywood news bureau, is the father of a boy born Oct. 9. THELMA WALLACE, well known in Seattle radio, has joined KMO, Tacoma. Wash., as director of women's programs. MILLICENT POLLEY, and Charles Volger have joined the announcing staff of WHBF, Rock Island, 111. HAL NEWELL, announcer of WEEI, Boston, on Oct. 14 married Ruth Kennedy. DICK DORRANCE of WOR's press department is author of a short story, "We Take You Now to Maine", dealing with radio coverage of special events, that appeared in This Week for Oct. 23. Dorrance and .Joe Ranson, radio editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, coauthored "You Can't Sing That", an article on radio's censorship of songs, in the November American Mercury. KERMIT HANSON, new to radio, has joined the program department of KOWH, Omaha. TED MacMURRAY, assistant production director of NBC-Chicago, is convalescing at the local Edgewater Hospital following an abdominal operation. DICK BERTRANDIAS of the KPOKGO press department in San Francisco, married Evelyn Lopes of San Jose, Cal., Oct. 21. JIM THOMAS, formerly of WWL, New Orleans, and WCOA, Pensacola. Fla., has joined the announcing staff of WDGY, Minneapolis. GEORGE THORNE, formerly of KVSF, Sante Fe, N. M., and Lee Karson, of KGGM, Albuquerque, have joined the announcing staff of KOB, Albuquerque. VIRGINIA BAHN, program director of KFVS, Cape Girardeau, Mo., was one of 12 local women named as leaders in their professions at the annual banquet of the Cape Girardeau Business & Professional Women's Club. Y V O N N E BROADCORENS has joined the program department of WEEI, Boston, along with Arthur Robinson and Eleanor Potter in the general service department. RONALD DAWSON, formerly of WOL, Washington, D. C, has joined WFVA, Fredericksburg, Va., to produce dramatic shows. ERNEST MOBLEY, formerly of KOB. Albuquerque, N. M.. has joined the announcing staff of KTOK, Oklahoma City. Naomi Warner, formerly of KBIX, Muskogee, Okla., has joined the KTOK office staff. LORIN GREENE, production manager of Radio Centre Ltd., Toronto, transcription producers, has joined the Toronto staff of Canadian Broadcasting Corp., as announcer. He is succeeded by Douglas Marshall, former newscaster for the Toronto Globe & Mail. FRANK BROWN and Kay Lavelle, formerly featured on the Al Pearce show and transcriptions, have joined WCCO, Minneapolis, to conduct the early morning Sunrisers feature. Bob Sutton, their son, formerly of KFWB, Hollywood, also accompanied them to Minneapolis from Hollywood and will write continunity on the program. ROBERT McANDREWS, KPO-KGO promotion manager in San Francisco, recently wrote a story about Brother Leo of St. Mary's College in the Olympian. Olympic Club magazine. The article was used by a commercial commentator on a rival local station who was not aware that McAndrews is a KPO-KGO executive. MRS. MARIANNE DRESCHBR, formerly superintendent of the Professional Bldg. of Little Rock, Ark., has joined the office staff of KARK, Little Rock. EVERETT MITCHELL, chief announcer of NBC-Chicago who handles the National Farm d Home Hour, was honored Oct. 23 at the Kansas City convention of the Future Farmers of America. He was presented a gold key for his work on Farm & Home Hour. BOB DYRENFORTH, actor of NBCChicago, is convalescing in the local St. Francis Hospital following an auto accident Oct. 24 in which he received a fractured leg and arm. BUD LYNCH, formerly of CKOC, Hamilton, Ont., has joined the announcing staff of CKLW, Windsor, Ont. 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