NBC Transmitter (Jan-Dec 1939)

JUNE, 1939 9 NBC HOLLYWOOD by Noel Corbett Here are (left) Niles Trammell, NBC executive vice-president, Dorothy Lamour, and Don E. Gilman, vice-president in charge of Western Division, at Miss Lamour's recent party. Mr. Trammell was visiting Hollywood on a routine business trip. Vacation Days at NBC Hollywood Frank Pittman, soundman, driving to Greensboro, N. C., to visit folks. Teams up there with singer John Carter for eastern states trek . . . Margaret Kent, Artists Service, letting American Air Lines work out Mexico City visit . . . Charles Brown, Division Sales Promotion Manager, giving Big Bear a trial . . . Walter Davison, Tour Promotion, just back from Big Bear . . . Brown’s secretary, Helen Murray, looking over Lake Tahoe resort folders . . . Norman Noyes, Supervisor of Pages, swordfishing at Guaymas, Mexico . . . Those to Bohemian Grove encampment, just north of San Francisco, are Don E. Gilman, Vice President; Sydney Dixon, Division Sales Manager, and Walter Bunker, Production Manager . . . Kathryn Phelan, Engineering, taking yearly trip to St. Louis . . . Frank Dellett, Division Auditor, to Mendocin County . . . Henry Maas, Sales Traffic Manager, to Napa Valley . . . Andy Love, in charge of Literary Rights, to Frisco Fair . . . Myron Dutton, Director, and Bob Stevens, spending vacash breaking in new valley home. Former housemate, Joe Thompson, Director, book-writing his time away in Jamaica . . . Ben Gage, Announcer, to Chicago, Louisville and Detroit for new car . . . Joe Parker, Director, back from New York collecting bets on victory of his cousin, Lou Nova . . . Jane Burns, head of typing, planes to New York . . . Joy Storm, Announcer, to Portland and Straits of Juan De Fuca . . . Marvin Young, Assistant Division Program Director, taking a trailer to Oregon woods . . . Cliff Anderson, Program Traffic Manager, to Carmel ... Joe Alvin, Press, fishing along banks of Columbia River . . . Jack Creamer, Maintenance, lolling in Sun Valley, a resort he proudly boasts of having helped construct . . . Frances Scully, Press, to New York via Southern Pacific . . . Nell Cleary, Press, sticking to Southern California beaches . . . Hal Bock’s secretary, Martha Sherwin, touring eleven Western States . . . Ray Ferguson, Engineer, baking on Mojave Desert . . . Bob McWhinney, Guest Relations, to Klamath Falls, Oregon . . . Honor Holden, Alex Robb's secretary, visited daughter in Cadillac, Mich. Landed there on Mother’s Day . . . Frances Garland, Cashier, breaking in new dress, design of which is montage of Southern California scenes, to spring on Oklahoma relatives . . . Lew Frost, Executive Assistant to Don E. Gilman, goes to Pacific Northwest . . . His secretary, Blanche Davies, plans another trip to Frisco Fair . . . Tracy Moore, Sales, remodels summer home, “Moore Manners,” at Ocean Park, Washington . . . Craig Pickett, Relief Supervisor, to Kansas City, Mo. . . . Helen Welty, Sales Traffic, taking in family reunion in Arkansas. Folks coming clear from England ’n’ everything . . . Art Carter, NBC’s official photog, packing into wilds of Wyoming . . . Hal Bock, Division Press head, says he can be reached at San Juan Sesqui Centennial, California. (Please write.) Quick Pix . . . Tracy Moore, Sales, recently made Vice President of Los Angeles Ad Club . . . Carolyn Gay now Division Program Director John Swallow’s secretary . . . Cliff Anderson, Program Traffic, is bowling in the old groove . . . He topped Lew Frost’s 276 with a 277 . . . Joe Alvin and Matt Barr, Press, sipping coffee out of those original Brown Derby mugs ... In the next booth of the famed Derby, Jack Heilman, Variety mug, putting the lug on NBC execs . . . Jack Stewart, Sales, passing smokes May 3; was a 7-pound lassie . . . NBC A A now has its own newspaper. Co-editors are Stan Radom, Aubrey Ison, George Volger, and Bob Morris, Guest Relations . . . Charles Brown celebrated his 20th wedding anniversary June 6 ... It all came out when a gang, lunching across the street at the Tropics, decided he didn’t look a day over 24 . . . Hal Bock and Fritz Leiber put on a Shakespearean skit at the Hollywood Author’s Club. Bock did a radio announcer and Leiber the reincarnation of the immortal bard. Bock spent a month learning lines, to finally learn he had to hold script during performance. Tennis Tournament ... In the final playoff of the NBC Hollywood AA Second Annual Tennis Tournament June 3, Jack Creamer won over George Hatch, 6 — Love, 6 — 3 ... In the doubles, Creamer, teamed with Lew Frost, beat out Art Carter and Ray Ferguson, 6—1, 6—2, 6—4. Left to r:ght: Lew Frost and Jack Creamer, NBC Hollywood tennis champs (see story), Tony Stanford of J. Walter Thompson and John Swallow, Western Division Program Manager, who awarded the prizes.