Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1957)

the key station in MICHIGAN'S* MIGHTY MIDDLE MARKET with a 24 hour schedule and 5000 LIVELY WATTS has over twice the number of listeners than all other stations combined in (March-April, 1957— C. E. Hooper, Inc.) A K LANSING ¥ contact Vernard, Rintoul & McConnell, Inc. * 17 Central Michigan counties with $1,696,356,000 spendable income. OUR RESPECTS to Andrew Gallagher Haley Whenever Andy Haley goes abroad — and it's as frequent these days as rockets and satellites going into outer space — his family, his friends and his business acquaintances are bombarded with picture post cards from far off places. They have a special flavor because almost invariably they're bought in one country, written in another and mailed in a third. Only recently friends received a picture post card of Paris, postmarked Rome and telling about Barcelona. This wide ranging travel is typical of Mr. Haley. His interests are as vast as his travels. His main activity is as a broadcast attorney in Washington but in the last few years he has become nationally and internationally famous in the field of rockets and space travel. Only last month he was elected president of the International Astronautical Federation. Not for nothing is Mr. Haley sometimes referred to as Haley's "comet." His energies are tremendous. And he looks the part. He is big and burly, six feet tall and 200 pounds, and he is continuously engaged in far-flung enterprises — from visiting clients in the Pacific Northwest to an international rockets meeting in the Far East. He entertains frequently and lavishly. He also is a gourmet and a gourmand. Yet in counterpoint to this unflagging activity he has surrounded himself with antiques. In one corner of his office sits a large, kneehole desk once owned by 1 8th Century author Horace Walpole. In another corner is an intricately-inlaid teakwood period end table. And on the wall hangs a Botticelli triptych. Andrew Gallagher Haley was born in Tacoma, Wash., Nov. 19, 1904. After high school classes young Mr. Haley worked for the Tacoma News-Tribune. He was in circulation, manned the switchboard, covered area high school activities, and worked on the city desk covering general news, police and court beats. He made $47 a week at his peak — which was a superior income in those days for a teenager. Even today Mr. Haley's blue eyes sparkle at the excitement of his newspaper days. In 1923, Mr. Haley went to Washington, D. C, where he entered Georgetown U. After two years of undergraduate studies and four years of law school he received his LL.B. This was 1928. It was six years later that he added a B.A. to his name, from George Washington U. in Washington, in 1934. He returned to Tacoma in 1928 and went into private practice. In 1932 he became administrative assistant to newly-elected Rep. Wesley Lloyd (D-Wash. ), who served in the 73rd and 74th Congresses. In 1933 Mr. Haley received an appointment to the Federal Radio Commission as an attorney. Colleagues still remember him as the nemesis of broadcasters who touted illegal products on the air (goat glands, cancer cures, birth control drugs). After six years in radio regulation, Mr. Haley and W. Theodore Pierson (then another FCC attorney now the senior of Pierson, Boil & Dowd) joined in forming a law partnership specializing in radio practice. Today Mr. Haley is the senior member of Haley, Wollenberg and Keneham. As guns began to boom in Europe in 1939, Mr. Haley was asked by his friend, Dr. Theodore von Karman, world renowned aerodynamist, to assist in establishing a commercial firm to manufacture rockets. This Mr. Haley did, becoming first president of Aerojet Engineering Corp. Aerojet subsequently was sold to General Tire & Rubber Co., but Mr. Haley has continued his interest in rockets and aerodynamics. He was president of the American Rocket Society in 1954 and was first chairman of ARS' space flight committee. He has been a vice president of the International Astronautical Federation, and became president of IAF last month. Mr. Haley made international news with the advent of Sputnik I when he recommended that the moon be proclaimed an autonomous territory (to forestall space grabs by Russia or any other country). He also urged that national sovereignty be limited to 275,000 feet above the earth. This is the area where aerodynamic "lift" ceases. He also recommended that the International Telecommunications Union in Geneva set up a system of spectrum allocations for space communications. In 1934 Mr. Haley married Delphine Delacroix of Mobile, Ala. The family consists of two children, Delphine, 21, and Andrew G. Jr., 19, and a nephew and niece, Andrew John Vogt, 14, and Mary Michaela Vogt, 12. He is a member of the American Bar Assn., the Federal Communications Bar Assn., Delta Theta Phi legal fraternity and the National Press Club. Right now, Mr. Haley is on a nationwide lecture tour with Germany's Dr. Welf Heinrich, talking to law school and Scientific groups about space law. They began Nov. 4 at Princeton U. and will end Nov. 26 in Washington, addressing the combined law schools of U. of Maryland, American U., Georgetown U., Catholic U. and George Washington U. WILS c^ofa Page 24 • November 11, 1957 Broadcasting