NBC Transmitter (Jan-Dec 1938)

JANUARY, 1938 5 George A. Lowther, who completed his tenth year with NBC last October, resigned from Electrical Transcription Service January 1 to form his own radio producing and scriptwriting firm. Mr. Lowther is the author of several serials on the networks, some of them being Terry and The Pirates, Dick Tracy and Thatcher Colt. i i 1 Office Changes: Several NBC executives moved their offices last month in order to bring them closer to their respective departments and activities. William S. Hedges, vice-president in charge of Station Relations, has moved into Room 500; and Alfred H. Morton, head of Managed and Operated Stations and Lee B. Wailes have moved into Room 606. Clay Morgan, director of promotion, now has his office in Room 404, on the same floor with and adjoining the Press and Promotion Divisions. ill Miscellaneous: As a result of auditions held last month by Chief Announcer Pat Kelly, two students have been graduated from the announcing class to pushing buttons and making station breaks and a new member has been added to the class. David Adams and F. Colburn Pinkham, Jr., both of the Guest Relations staff, are the apprentices and Raymond Feuerstein, also of G. R., is the new student in Announcer Dan Russell’s school for mikemen. i 1 i George Engles, director of Artists Service, assumed the role of Diogenes before the holidays and went looking for honest stenographers among his staff. Each was asked, “Is your typewriter in good condition, or do you feel that you need a new machine?” Stenos who turned down the offer of a new typewriter were greeted, a few hours later, by a uniformed messenger who presented each one of them with an American Beauty rose with a tag: “To an honest woman, from her boss.” i 1 i Miss Enid Beaupre, of the Promotion Division, was among the fifty-six members of the Welsh Women’s Chorus of New York who sang in a surprise party for Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, mother-in-law of Col. Charles Lindbergh, at the Morrow estate in Englewood, New Jersey, Saturday evening, December 18. Miss Beaupre says it was a very exciting experience for her and the other singers because among the guests at the party were Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh, who recently arrived from their home in England. i i i Henry Arian, until recently an NBC guide, is in Europe doing newspaper work in France and Spain. / i i Miss Charlotte Holden of Audience Mail has the sympathy of her associates in the recent death of her father, George H. Holden, former owner and publisher of The Surveyor and The Insurance Age. Mr. Holden was well known in the publishing business as a writer of editorials and special articles for insurance and financial journals. 1 i i Miss Mildred Joy, formerly of our General Library, is now working for the National City Bank as a librarian. i i i Charles Hawel of the Mail Room, who is studying advertising at the School of Business and Civic Administration, was recently awarded one of three prizes for the best advertising copy and layout in a contest conducted by the school. ill Robert Meachem, former NBC guide who is now at Cornell University where he is technical director of the University’s Radio Guild, spent most of his Christmas vacation in Radio City visiting his old friends. Philip Sullivan, who has been studying radio engineering at the RCA Institute since April 1936 when he joined NBC as a page, received his first class radio telephone operator’s license December 22. Phil also studied engineering at Johns Hopkins before coming to Radio City. i i 1 George Engles, director of Artists Service, who recently underwent an appendectomy, is recuperating at home and is expected back in his Radio City office soon after this issue of the Transmitter comes off the press. i i i Members of the Artists Service Department in New York held their annual Christmas party at the Hawaiian Room of the Hotel Lexington on the evening of December 24. Reports are that it was a very gay affair. Frank Murtha was, as in years past, the organizer of the party. i i i George Olenslager, guide, and Mrs. Olenslager celebrated their first wedding anniversary with a party given at their apartment on Twenty-Sixth Street, New York City, Wednesday evening, December 29. A large number of guides and pages went to the party and several of the boys entertained with vocal renditions while Peter Perrine thumped on the piano. Refreshments were served. BABY PICTURES WANTED Pictures of NBC babies are wanted by the NBC Transmitter. Are there any babies in your family — whether they be your own children, a young brother or sister, or perhaps a niece or nephew? Take their pictures and send them to the Editor. Through the courtesy of RCA Manufacturing Company, Inc., the NBC Transmitter will award an album of Victor records* of Toscanini conducting the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York to the employe submitting the best baby picture each month. Three NBC employes will be asked to pick the winning picture each month. Their judgment will be based on the popular appeal, humor, interest and photographic quality of the picture. Only three Toscanini albums will be given away — one with each of the next three issues of the Transmitter, so hurry and send us your baby pictures NOW! READ THESE RULES CAREFULLY 1. Do not send negatives. Send prints not smaller than 2^2 x 4". 2. Give the name of the baby and its relation to you. 3. Give your name, department and NBC division. 4. Send your pictures for the February issue to the NBC Transmitter, Room 284, National Broadcasting Company, 30 Rockefeller Center, New York, before January 22. * The prize-winning photograph in the February issue of the NBC Transmitter will receive a Victor album (M-308) of ff agnerian music as played by the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York with Arturo Toscanini conducting. Future prizes will be Toscanini recordings of other composers.