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NBC TRANSMITTER
NEW YORK
Changes and Additions
The erudite, erstwhile editor of this publication has left our suite of offices on the 4th floor to take up his stand as one of the perambulating pillars of the Script Division. Gordon Nugent is with us no more. Needless to say, the loss of his steadying hand and kindly influence will he sincerely felt by his former associates.
Mr. Nugent was probably one of the most learned editors this traditionsteeped paper has ever had. He received his A.B. degree at the University of Illinois, graduating cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He moved from there on a path of glory to Columbia University, entering on a literary scholarship and receiving his Master’s degree in English literature. Then followed four more years among books, specifically with Henry Holt and Co., publishers of textbooks. Mr. Nugent then decided to write. He first spent a year of freelancing on the West Coast, but finally joined NBC in February of this year.
Mr. Nugent’s glowing personality made this office one of the most popular watering places in the Company, and his literary style added zest and sparkle to the pages of the magazine. More times than we can readily say has Transmitter copy been spiced with his subtle quips — surely it will suffer for the loss of them. And so we tender him regretfully into the hands of Miss McBride, with the gentle admonition to care for him well. For this is the banner of genius, half unfurled.
Guide Frank Shinn was officially transferred to the Production Division of the Program Department on the first of October. He replaced Frank Dodge, recently moved into a junior production director’s berth.
Shinn qualified in last spring’s auditions and has since been a member of the announcer’s class, soon to be resumed under Dan Russell. And being versatile enough, he has also assisted Bill Eddy in Television’s visual effects work, the latter being an outgrowth of his experience with puppetry. He once toured the Eastern Seaboard with his own company, playing to audiences raneing from ten to twenty-five hundred people.
A credit note to Frank at this point: He attended the Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia for four
semesters. Now he is putting in a full day’s work at NBC, and at the same time is carrying almost a full schedule at NYU Evening School in an effort to round out the above credits for a B.S. degree.
He does have ten minutes between two of his classes and is trying to think of a way to fill in his spare time.
Norman Gray was transferred to Music Library on October 1. He was taken from the tour supervisor’s desk on the mezzanine.
Norm is Duke University, class of ’36. and holds membership in several fraternities: Phi Mu Alpha, Alpha Phi Omega, Theta Alpha Phi, and Helmet and Spurs. He also has a B.S.M. degree.
The hoy who, in an engaging tone, used to croon, “Your tour is leaving now,” into the P.A. mike on the mezzanine, originally came to New York to study voice with Estelle Liebling. He made his professional debut last August at Allen’s Grove Summer Theater, Rutland, Vermont, singing the role of Silvio in Pagliacci. He is said to have had an interesting life.
Official recognition of Martin Hoade’s transfer was recentlv forthcoming. He has been with the Company since 1933, or just before the exodus from 711 Fifth Ave., with most ol the time spent in Music Division. He is now in News and Special Events.
Marty has had the journalism hug ever since he went to work in the Circulation Department of the New York Sun, and that was back in high school days. He has taken an extension course in news writing at the Columbia University School of Journalism, and has also studied radio at the N. Y. U. Extension School. With this in back of him, it took nothing more than a world crisis to put him in the News Room.
Mary Louise Fields has been reengaged in News as secretary and keeper of the morgue. She replaces Annette Johnson, resigned.
St. Joseph’s College, Maryland, is now represented in Press Department. Mary Alice Grattan is her name and she has been in town only since August, with her job in the Company coining a month later. However, she does account for several years business experience between school and now. She will act as receptionist, and also as secretary to Mr. Mullen of Press.
In Sales, the details of Hugh Beville’s work is now being handled by Martha Howard. Frank Breslin has taken over her former post while Frank’s desk is now being covered by Katherine Moroney.
The new operator in Telegraph is
Martin Ford, who, at this writing, has been with NBC one month. He formerly handled news traffic for the Pi ess Radio Bureau, and has also worked for Postal Telegraph.
To get Charles H. Newton. Jr., you now dial Script Dept., where he has a desk and the title of junior staff writer. He was advanced from Script Routing where he has been since February of this year. Mr. Newton went to school in Cambridge at an institution called Harvard, from which he received a degree in 1936. He then went to the Pacific side of the country to work as a cub reporter on the Los Angeles Examiner. New York’s four seasons and the National Broadcasting Co. attracted him hack in April of 1 938.
There is a twist to this latest change. Cordon Nugent, who last spring vacated the old Transmitter office for Dorothy McBride, is now back in that office under Miss McBride’s wing, while Charley has Dorothy’s old office down the hall. No piize is being offered for a solution to this last paragraph.
Miss Kay Bauer has recently been added to Artists Service as assistant to Madge Tucker. Miss Bauer expresses extreme satisfaction with her position and hopes she may be associated with NBC for a long period. Her hobby is keeping up with events in theatre, motion pictures, and radio.
Charles Rynd, in Sales, now has Elizabeth Dunkerton as secretary. She is one of NBC’s newer arrivals, having joined the Company August 22. and comes under the general heading of “local girl”— Bayside, L. L, being the actual spot. She got her preliminary schooling there, later went through Packard Business School, and at present is studying nights at N. Y. U. There was also a goodly bit of business experience between then and now: at Macy’s, as secretary to a dentist, with the Guaranty Trust Co., and in her last position as secretary to an engineer w i th the World’s Fair Corp.
Another Packard graduate (this column is not intended for advertising) is Katherine Moroney, who is now in charge of tickets in Sales. She comes from Brooklyn, and also attended St. Francis Xavier Academy in that suburban town. Her first position after business school was in the Company’s Stenographic section, which she joined in October of 1938.
Up in National Spot and Local Sales, Mary Elson has taken over the desk guarding Mr. Boyd’s office. Before that she had devoted some six months to Script Division, and we’ll