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11/17/42
NATIONAL PRESS CLUB AND ASCAP HOST TO SERVICEMEN
More than 250 servicemen, including both United States and British fighting men, were guests of the National Press Club American Legion Post No. 20 and the Anerlcan Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers at the first of four Saturday parties held in the National Press Club in Washington.
Robert L. Murray of ASCAP was master of ceremonies and the guests Included House Minority Leader Martin, Representative Costello, ( D) , of California, a member of the House Military Affairs Committee, and Representative Sheppard ( D) , also of California.
Press Club Legionnaires and Representative Martin donned aprons for the occasion to serve refreshments to soldiers, sailors and marines as an array of local and national talent provided songs and music.
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ARIvIY-NAVY FOOTBALL SPONSOR TO SHARE NETWORKS WITH U.S.
Cooperative sharing of three networks by a commercial sponsor and Government agencies, will take place during the broad¬ cast by NBC, CBS and Mutual, of the Army-Navy football game at Annapolis, on November 28, Through an arrangement between Esso Marketers, sponsors of the sports broadcast, and the U, S. Treasury Department, the periods usually allotted to the reading of commer¬ cials, will be divided between the two organizations throughout the game.
Esso Marketers paid $100,000 for broadcasting rights to the contest, the sum to be divided equally between Navy Relief and Array Emergency Relief. But NBC's 128-statlon network serves 77 areas where Esso Marketers do not operate. Consequently, these out¬ lets will be detached from the main network while the soonsor's com¬ mercials are being read. In their place, appeals for war bond sales and for Array and Navy enlistments will be read by another announcer,
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Under the title of "Action on the Home Front", the National Chamber of Commerce has launched a new series of radio programs. Presented each week by more than 100 Cha,rabers of Commerce in coopera¬ tion with their radio stations, the programs feature top Federal executives on the home war front.
Among those to be interviewed by Chamber commentator Hardy Burt will be WPB Chief Donald Nelson; WPB Vice-Chairman William Batt; Admiral Emory S. Land, Administrator, War Shipping Administra¬ tion; Paul McNutt, War i«lanpower Commission chief, and others of equal note.
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