NBC Transmitter (Jan-Dec 1939)

NOVEMBER, 1939 15 LIBRARY EXCHANGE PLAN (Continued from page 4) organized arrangement, however, the volumes of all the libraries will be readily available to any one of them. While here, the group made inspection visits of each of the New \ork collections of the Company, and went on to make tentative plans for a visit to the Camden and Harrison libraries. In this way, each one of the librarians will keep in mind a general picture of the layout and the volumes available in the other units. Miss Lugscheider for the promotion, and the other librarians for their cooperation, are to be congratulated, since the plan will certainly result in added convenience to all concerned. It might be well at this time to remind the New York employees that the General Library is now firmly entrenched in its new location — room 463, which was made by joining and remodelling the client’s booths of studios 3E and 3G. Miss Frances Sprague, still very capably in charge, has extended a general invitation to come in and get acquainted. She will be glad to show around anyone interested and explain the new arrangement. And to the uninitiated, let it be said that the collection is really worth investigating. The subjects covered are too many to enumerate but the door is open and everything is well catalogued. And Miss Sprague is a nice person to know. KDKA PITTSBURGH (Continued from page 10) Forum Kitchen. Club members made such a mess in the kitchen Evelyn Gardiner gave them a putsch. Members now make coffee in studio repair shop with their own equipment (bought on easy payment plan and being paid for by 10<f weekly dues). . . . Coffee clubbers resented new candidate Jim Luntzel’s offer to pay 9<f weekly on grounds that he uses no cream or sugar. . . . Friends of Charley Urguhart, Production, are giving him the laugh. Charley, an old circus man, pridefully introduced the bearded lady, an acquaintance of his saw-dust days, around the studio. Pittsburgh papers next week ran picture of said bearded lady — “She” was a man. . . . Joe Baudino is reported to have taken only one puff of his pipe recently when someone spoke to him. . . . Lynn Morrow dubbed “Mr. Television” after escorting “Miss Television” all over Allegheny County Free Fair AA ACTIVITIES Congratulations to Henry Rudick of the Service Staff and to Mary Lou Irvine, chairman of the NBCAA membership drive. On October 5, Mr. Rudick received his card as 500th paid member of the NBCAA. And with this recruit, the membership of the AA has reached an all-time high. It is of interest to note that when Miss Irvine look over the membership reins in April, it totaled but 315. The work she has done in a few short months merits the thanks of the Association. Anyone interested in learning more about the AA can get complete information from Miss Irvine in the Cashier’s office. Bowling News The bowling season is off to a flying start, and although only two bowling nights have “rolled" around, this year’s competition promises to be keen. Already several scores of over two hundred have been chalked up, and last year’s winning engineering teams face no easy path in their try for another championship. There is one all-girl team in the competition, and two other new ones, Press and Program. The rest of the teams lined up as two each from Engineering and General Service; one each from Guest Relations, Treasury, Traffic, Auditing and Sales. Riding News The riding club’s latest contribution to the entertainment of our more hardy NBCites took place on October 7 at Closter, N. J. Eleven riders participated in the paper chase held on the trails in the vicinity, and with the weather just about perfect, everybody had a great time. Wilber Welsh, of Traffic, won first prize, which consisted of a small statuary desk-piece. Movies were taken by A1 Patkocy at various points during the chase, and will be shown after the moonlight ride to be held later in October. After the exercise of the day was finished, the group adjourned to an old Dutch inn nearby and had lunch. All in all it was a most successful day, and our expert and embryo equestrians are looking forward to the moonlight ride to be held shortly. grounds. Everywhere “Miss Television” went, Lynn was sure to go — the lamb. . . . Staff members returning from N. Y. Fair singing praises of cordiality extended at Westinghouse exhibit. . . . NBC WASHINGTON ( Continued from page 11) Spain the search amounted to only the revelation of the contents of his billfold. At I run, Spain, he boarded a train for Lisbon, but when established in his compartment he learned that his car was going to Madrid. Ahead of him was a first class car which later would be sent to Lisbon. He grew more and more concerned at the prospect of arriving in Madrid with scarcely any money. Yet he had so little money then that he could not afford a first class passage. However, he took a chance and moved forward to the Lisbon carriage, and after a while arrived in the Portuguese capital. There he caught the Clipper. At the recent Harvest Moon Ball held in Griffith Stadium here, an allstar local orchestra was selected to play a battle of music with Glen Gray’s Casa Loma Orchestra. The members of the all-stars were elected by a ballot among all the orchestra leaders in Washington. Each leader was asked to vote for the men he thought the best in town. Over 400 Washington musicians were eligible to make up the 13 piece orchestra. Because of the instrumentation required in the 13 piece band. NBC men were eligible to fill only 11 positions. But NBC Staff Orchestra members walked off with placement honors when 9 of them were elected to the orchestra. This was a ratio of 9 positions filled out of 11. NBC’s first trumpet, Charlie Frankhauser, polled more votes than anv musician in town — practically unanimous. KYW PHILADELPHIA (Continued from page 12) Due to go on the air at 1 :45 and 15 minutes from the field, the car blew a tire at 1:22. Munster hailed the first passing motorist and asked to be taken to the nearest cab stand. When the motorist heard the circumstances, he looked at his watch and decided there was no time to waste with anything like that. He drove direct to the field. Arriving just in time for the broadcast, Munster learned that his benefactor was William E. Lingelbach Jr., of general counsel for Esso Marketers (Standard Oil Company of Pennsylvania in the Keystone State), sponsors of the Esso Reporter broadcasts. Mr. Lingelbach had saved the day for listeners to a football game — sponsored by Atlantic Refining.