NBC Transmitter (Jan-Dec 1938)

14 NBC TRANSMITTER NBC HOLLYWOOD Results of Tennis Finals Rounding out the annual NBC Tennis Tournament on May 7, Lew Frost, assistant to Vice President Gilman and Jack Creamer, of the maintenance staff, took the doubles 6-3, 6-4, from Jack Stewart, Sales, and Paul Greene, studio engineer, before a crowd of 200 at the La Cienega Courts in Beverly Hills. In the singles finals Creamer won from Stewart 6-3, 6-2. A three-year silver trophy was presented to Creamer by A. E. Nugent, and a three-year gold trophy was given to the winners of the doubles by Walter Norris, representing the Randall Motor Club. Tom Harrington, of Young and Rubicam, donated a couple of handsome sweaters and the Town Lounge added two money orders. Other NBC employes entered in the matches were Joy Storm, announcer, who won last year’s tournament, Walter Bunker, Jr., production manager, Ken Carpenter and Ben Gage, announcers, Donald De Wolf, engineer in charge in Hollywood, and Ray Ferguson and Murdo MacKenzie, studio engineers. The Play-Back Frances Scully really proved to be a loyal press agent when she recently visited the new CBS building with a group from the Los Angeles Advertising Club. Hal Rorke of CBS arranged for each visitor to speak into a microphone and by Noel Corbett have his or her voice recorded. In the midst of the play back. Miss Scully’s voice suddenly boomed out amongst the others— “My name is Frances Scully, and I’m a member of the Press Department of the NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY!” Wedding Bells Producer Bob Reed and Gogo DeLys both well known to NBCites in San Francisco, and also in Radio City, New York, where Miss DeLys sang on the Lucky Strike and other programs, were granted a marriage license May 26. By the time this is read, the couple will be honeymooning at Ensenada, Mexico. When they return they will make their home in Beachwood Canyon in the Hollywood Hills. NBC Wins Golf Trophies It was field day for NBCites in Hollywood’s Annual Radio Golf Championship Tournament played at the Midwick Country Club on Sunday, May 30. Claude Sweeten, musical director of KFI, NBC affiliated station, won the gold cup donated by NBC for having the lowest net score of 65. The NBC trophy was presented by Vice President Don E. Gilman. Bob Kimic, NBC staff trumpeter, won the CBS trophy. Among those from NBC who participated in the tournament were Don E. Gilman, John Swallow, program manager of Among those at the recent Annual Radio Golf Tournament were, left to right: John Swallow, Western Division program manager; Harrison Holliway, manager of NBC Stations KFI and KECA, and Don E. Gilman, Vice President in charge of NBC Western Division. the Western Division; Bob Brooke, studio engineer; Joe Arnone and Bob Schuetz of the N. Y. Engineering Department who are in Hollywood supervising the construction of the new NBC studios. Vacation Days The only snag which Bob Brooke, studio engineer, struck during his 6,000mile vacation jaunt, was in the form of a blizzard in Yellowstone. For the first time in history he had the top of his car up . . . Bob Moss, studio engineer, vacationed to New York. He’s driving a new car back from Detroit . . . Charlie Smith, Artists Service, left for parts unknown . . . Matt Barr, detained his trip to Yosemite by three days so that he could attend Hal Bock’s surprise birthday party. Quick Pix Myron Dutton, producer, arranged a benefit for the Beverly Hills School scholarship fund, at which several stars appeared. Dutton is president of the Alumni . . . Andy Love, in charge of Literary Rights, recently spoke before 400 ladies and one gentleman at a Tuesday Afternoon Club of Glendale luncheon . . . Charlie Norman, studio engineer, caught a six-pound Rainbow Trout at Big Bear Lake which measured 22 inches . . . Don E. Gilman, vice president, was the principal speaker at the Annual College of Commerce Banquet at USC . . . Donald DeWolf, engineer in charge in Hollywood, told Southern California Metermen all about the insides of radio at a dinner at Huntington Park. Arnold Maguire, producer, and Carl Lorenz, studio engineer, have organized a rifle and pistol team . . . A. H. Saxton, Division Engineer, is in New York at the Annual Meeting of the Division Engineers. Winners and runners-up in the NBC Hollywood Annual Tennis Tournament. Left to right, Paul Greene, studio engineer; Jack Stewart, Sales; Joe Stauffer, of Toung & Ruhicam, who presented some of the prizes; Walter Norris who presented the winners of the doubles with a gold trophy given by the Randall Motor Club; Lew Frost, assistant to Vice President Gilman, and Jack Creamer of the maintenance staff. Frost and Creamer won the doubles; and Creamer took the singles from Stewart.