NBC Transmitter (Jan-Dec 1939)

6 NBC TRANSMITTER NAMES IN THE NEWS NEW YORK Changes and Additions Thomas Carey, who made last issue's Names in the News, has moved again — this time to the International Division, where he has taken over the new Lobster Shift. Should you by any chance not know what that is, it’s something to do with nursing news tickers after midnight, thereby increasing the speed and efficiency with which the news is edited in the morning. So it’s called the Lobster Shift, because . . . AAA Donald Bogert has been transferred from the Mail Room to Central Files. Don entered the company last September, three months after being graduated from Lafayette College. AAA Charles Newton’s promotion from Mail Room to script routing in the Script Division is now official. Charlie came to NBC in April, 1938, from the Los Angeles Examiner for which he did cub reporting. He had graduated from Harvard in 1936 and had tried law school awhile before going west. AAA Three recent transferees from Central Stenographic are Grace Hellerson, Elsa Rudiger, and Helen Bernard. Miss Hellerson, who is now secretary to Mr. Hillpot of Artists Service, came to NBC last January from the Revlon Nail Enamel Co. She is a graduate of Wellesley, where she did not row on the crew. Miss Rudiger replaced Helen Buchta in Electrical Transcription. She came to Radio City last October from (State last position first) Redding Ridge School for Boys (Conn.), Sherwin Williams, and Henry Holt & Co. Previously she had attended Columbia University. Miss Bernard also went to Electrical Transcription, where she is filling the position vacated when Betty Homann left to work in the executive offices of the World’s Fair Coca-Cola exhibit. Faithful readers of the Transmitter will remember that Miss Bernard was written up in the March Roving Reporter for, among other things, winning $1000 in a movie quiz contest. (Since when is winning $1000 just “among other things”?) A new member of the Duplicating staff is Hamilton Heyl, late of the Mail Room. Heyl received his formal education at Kent, and Hamilton College, and Munich, where he spent a year studying music and singing (tenor I . AAA They changed divisions and doffed their uniforms, but continue in the same work. We are only trying to sav simply that Walter Clark and Henry Albert had been working as set-up men in the television studio, but are now on the payroll of the new7 Television Service section under C. G. Alexander. Their work in 3H has, of course, always been rather specialized — setting up back-drops, props, flats, etc. When a program calls for many scenes, they must hurriedly yet noiselessly tear down one scene and erect another in its place while the action is going on in another corner of the studio. Furthermore, they are often called upon to appear before the cameras, either to carry off and on the performers’ props in the Television Debuts Series or to act as extras. One word on their acting and our story is ended. The boys have poise! (The rhyme is intended.) AAA Payroll changes give us the name of another Central Stenographic graduate. She is Jane Adams of Hastings, Nebraska, and her new position is secretary to Miss Kemble of Continuity Acceptance. Miss Adams is a 1938 graduate of Nebraska’s Doane College, the school that, along with Pomona, gave us Robert Taylor. AAA DeVere Engelbach was last mentioned in the Transmitter when he was a guest singer on the Easy Aces program. This time we wish to report that he has been promoted from keyman on the page force to the newly created post of page trainer. AAA The new' clerk in the Sales Department is John G. Hoagland — Princeton, ’38; NBC Mail and Messenger, May, ’39; Central Files, June, ’39. During College vacations John gained business experience by selling for his father s iron foundry, in which he also did manual labor to get in shape for football. AAA Mrs. Thomas Marshall, known as Miss Elizabeth Morris until her marriage on February 4th of this year, resigned from her position as file clerk in the Legal Department on July 15th in order to devote more time to the three K's. Replacing Mrs. Marshall is Miss E. Corinne Dobson, lately of Central Files, who came to New7 York in 1935 from Greer, South Carolina, in order to study music. After spending several months at the New7 York School of Music and Art, Miss Dobson joined NBC in November, 1936. AAA A new7 member has been added to NBC's present staff of attorneys. He is Robert Dwight Swezey, graduate of Harvard Law7 School. Mr. Swezey was formerly associated with the law firm of Warner, Stackpole & Bradlee in Boston, and more recently served in the legal divisions of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and the Public Works Administration in Washington. His present work with NBC will be primarily in the field of labor law7. Resignations Local boy makes “Yokel Boy.” Which, translated, means that Phil Crosbie, until this month of the Page Staff, now7 has a part in said Broadway musical hit. He is also the understudy of the singing lead. AAA Dick Smith has ceased conducting tours in order to enter the resort and hotel business. He can be reached this summer at the Wianno Club in Wianno, Mass., after w'hich his mail will follow him to the Huntington Hotel in Pasadena, Cal. AAA Jim (Janies 1.) Mitchell is now gracing the happy hunting grounds of NBC’s second floor on his own time, having forsaken his previous job of entertaining and educating NBC’s guided tourists in order to delight the vaster audience of radio listeners. Seriously, we have already heard him do excellent emoting on three NBC shows, Radio Guild, On Your job, and Our American Schools. AAA Henry Hull has left the guide ranks to join Caspar Kuhn in production work at Ripley’s Odditorium (see last issue) . Henry is also doing some radio spots, including several on the new Lost American Plays series. AAA Still another resignation is that of Cliff Tallman who is now7 with the Advertising concern. Erwin Wasey & Co. AAA Carl Cannon resigns August 15 as correspondent in the Information Division to take a promotion and production position with station WSGN in