Broadcasting (Jan - June 1943)

We Pay ?2e5pect4 'To JAMES WALDO WOODRUFF JR. BACK in 1934 James Waldo Woodruff Jr. wound up his work at Episcopal High School at Alexandria, Va. ind returned to his Columbus, Ga. lome, ready for college and a l iareer. He finished off the former llun a hurry at the U. of Georgia, md kept an inquiring eye in the neantime on "what to do." In. Jim Senior's activities were a 'ertile source of assistance in setling that important question be I :ause they ranged from real estate md stocks to dye machine manufacturing and radio broadcasting, tjiot to mention farming and dairying. Even before Jim Jr. left the . university in 1936 he had sampled | his father's broadcasting business Dn vacations and found it entirely bo his measure. At Episcopal Jim had been head monitor, football captain, winner of numerous athletic medals and awards and particularly of the Blackiston Prize (a trip to Bermuda) for outstanding leadership. When a fellow like that, having added collegiate honors as a mark jof his aggressiveness and abilities, is brought into contact with a threestation broadcasting network — and |they decide to woo each other — you've got a winning combination. Today Jim Sr. is relieved of all i concern with the Georgia Broadcasting System — WRBL, Columbus; WATL, Atlanta; WGPC, Albany. Jim Jr., as executive manager, runs the show. In Columbus, where the Woodruff family has lived for more than 100 years, Jim, aged 28, is known as the busiest of young executives. In January the Distinguished Service Award Key of the Columbus Junior Chamber of Commerce paid tribute for the whole town to Jim's enviable qualities of personality and ability. The award of the key was an easy choice for the committee. For Jim is chairman of the Red Cross War Fund for Muscogee county, director of the First National Bank, member of the Alabama-Georgia Boy Scout executive committee, youngest member of the Merchants Assn. directorate; retiring president of the state association of broadcasters ; director, Senior Chamber of Commerce and numerous other civic responsibilities cheerfully and well served; not to mention the fact that he is not only in his second term as a director at large of the NAB — but the youngest to hold such office. To top off his honors he was elected Director of NAB District 5, for a twoyear term, effective at the NAB War Conference in Chicago, April 27-29. At the Chicago War Conference Jimmy was named Chairman of the Small Station Problems Committee. The committee came up with suggestions unanimously adopted both by the Conference and the Board of Directors. Jim is described in his home bailiwick as genial and goodhumored but with an underlying business determination which produces the right idea and its prompt and efficient execution at the right time. He's modest, seldom gets perturbed and has a world of patience. He likes things done promptly and of course likes them done well. And like most good leaders he helps get them done himself. Football remains his outstanding interest outside of the office. Wherever there's a game on, there also will be Jim, with a portable under one arm so he can get everything the announcer in the booth is offering. He makes home movies and is actively interested in local charities. At Georgia U. he was a member of Sigma Epsilon and Pelican. In 1937 he married Catherine Leslie Mullins, and lives modestly in Columbus in a story-book cottage among roses and magnolias. NOTES MRS. ROYAL MILLER, wife of the owner of KROY, Sacramento, is acting as manager in the absence for the duration of Bill Thompson, who is in the Navy as a commissioned officer. D. E. Lundy, sales manager, is acting in an advisory capacity to Mrs. Miller. CAPT. GRIFFITH THOMPSON, general manager of WBYN, Brooklyn, before joining the Special Service Branch of the Army, is in Halloran Hospital, Staten Island, N. Y., undergoing treatment for head iniuries received in a fall several weeks ago. F. J. HEALY, former vice-president in charge of the lighting division of Sylvania Electric Products, New York, has been appointed vice-president in charge of operations. In his new position, Mr. Healy will be responsible for all manufacturing operations in both the lighting and radiotube divisions. J. J. CLAREY Jr., foreign advertising manager of Bristol-Myers Co., New York, and recently elected president of the Export Adv. Assn., has been named chairman of the committee on radio and press, a division of the 1943 Foreign Trade Week Committee, for the New York metropolitan district. Foreign Trade Week will be observed May 16-22, with special meetings to be held at the Hotel Astor, New York. JACK HOWELL, former manager of KOMA, Oklahoma City, has joined the Navy and is taking basic training at Camp Peary, Williamsburg, Va. SIDNEY DEAN, former account executive of J. Walter Thompson Co., New York, is a recent graduate of the Army Air Forces OCS. FRANK FENTON, time salesman for WLW in New York, is now attending the Army Air Forces Officers' Candidate School at Miami Beach. DR. AUGUSTIN FRIGON, assistant general manager of the CBC, Montreal, will spend two weeks in Jamaica making a survey and recommendations concerning the possible extension of broadcasting services on the West Indian island. Dr. Frigon has been loaned to the Jamaican government to advise on the best type of organization from the technical and administrative points of view. ARTHUR SIMON, general manager of WPEN, Philadelphia, has gone to the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn., for a two-week physical check-up. DAN PARK, former salesman of KYW, Philadelphia, graduated from OCS last week. He is father of a baby girl born recently. KEN KENNEDY, account executive of KTMS, Santa Barbara, has been transferred from that station's Ventura, Cal., staff to replace Jess Jones, recently inducted into the Army. JOHN W. ELWOOD, general manager of KPO, San Francisco, is on a business trip to New York and Washington, D. C, expecting to return about the middle of May. MERWYN McCABE, account executive of KFRC, San Francisco, recently is father of a baby boy. ENSIGN JOSEPH H. ZIAS, attached to the War Plans Section, Office of Naval Communications, Washington, has been promoted to rank of lieutenant (j.g.). He formerly was with the radio law firm of Loucks & Scharfeld. MILLER McCLINTOCK, Mutual president, has been appointed a member of the executive committee of the Federal Radio Educational Committee of the U. S. Office of Education. HUGH GAGE of the sales department of CKWS, Kingston, Ont, has been transferred to the commercial department of CFCH, North Bay, Ont. HAROLD LEVEY, of Washington, D. O.j and Mrs. Edgar T. Hanson have joined the sales department of WLOL, Minneapolis. DON S. ELIAS, executive director of WWNC, Asheville, N. O, has returned to his desk after a tonsil operation. EDWIN P. CURTIN, formerly with BBDO and NBC and ex-radio publicity head of the New York World's Fair, has been advanced to the rank of lieutenant colonel at Camp Wheeler, Ga. After brief service with the radio branch of the War Department Bureau of Public Relations, Col. Curtin requested troop duty and has subsequently earned promotions at Camp Wheeler as commanding officer of the Tenth Training Battalion. LEWIS W. WATERS, formerly vicepresident in charge of research and development of General Foods Corp., New York, has been named to the newly created post of vice-president in charge of scientific relations. Thomas M. Rector, formerly manager of the company's central laboratories in Hoboken, has been named manager of research and development. Mr. Waters' new post was established in recognition of the increasing importance of a scientific approach to the basic problems of nutrition, as differentiated from commercial research, according to Clarence Francis, G-F president. BENNET LOWRY, former office manager of Whittelsey Inc., New York, and for the five previous years assistant personnel manager of Certain-Teed Products Corp., New York, has joined CBS as employment manager, according to an announcement last week by Francis C. Barton Jr., CBS personnel manager. J. J. CLAREY JR., who resigned in February, 1942, as president of Export Adv. Assn., to join the radio division of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs was reelected head of the association at its annual meeting in New York Wednesday, April 28. All other nominees on the slate (Broadcasting, April 26) were elected. Win. D. Murray WILLIAM D. MURRAY, 42, vicepresident of the Hudson Adv. Co., New York, died May 2 at his home in Yonkers, N. Y. Mr. Murray joined the agency, which was founded by his father, after his graduation from Harvard in 1921. He is survived by his parents, his wife, a sister and two brothers. FDR Miner Rating PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S four network address on the coal strike May 2 was heard by a listening audience of 43,761,000 persons, according to a survey made by C. E. Hooper Inc. and released by CBS. Rating of 56.7 compares with report on the President's Lincoln's birthday talk, Feb. 12, which received a Hooper rating of 57.1. Presidential talk on Washington's birthday was rated at 46.2. BROADCASTING • Broadcast Advertising May 10, 1943 • Page 31