NBC Transmitter (Mar-Oct 1941)

14 NBC TRANSMITTER HOLLYWOOD Noel Corbett BUSINESS AND PLEASURE No grass grew under the feet of Don E. Gilman, Vice-President in charge of the Western Division, during January. On a tour of the Pacific Northwest, he addressed the Ad Club in San Francisco, the Chamber of Commerce banquet in Seattle, and the Rotary Club in Portland. In between business conferences and his talks, Mr. Gilman managed to find the time to get in a little golf along the way with advertising men. Accordingly, he missed several short putts. It was a small RCA Family gettogether at Music City recently when the Press department arranged for Dinah Shore to visit the record shop across the street and autograph her Bluebird recordings for her Hollywood fans. Carroll Tornroth of Talent Sales, your reporter, John J. Coyle and Victor Ralston of Victor, and Harry Meyerson of the RCA Manufacturing Company alternated in reaching for the blotters. A couple of lads who’ll be missed around Hollywood Radio City for the next twelve months are Karel Pearson of Traffic and John Margraf, page, who recently left for government training camps. MOON, JUNE, MISS CALHOUN DEPT. Two of our pages, Eddie Lippert and Ernie Brashear, have turned songwriting-team, and are doing rather nicelv. Their first tune, “Why Love?’’, has already been published. Other tunes which Bud Dant has orchestrated for Lippert and Brashear — pardon us, it’s Richard Loring and Steven Cross when they go into their keyboard katharsis — are “Vision of You’’ and “Spendthrift In Love’’. Nathan Scott, another pianopounding page, has been doing well, all right himself. His “John Scotter Trot’’ was played on a recent Kraft Music Hall broadcast by the orchestra leader of almost the same name. Scott has written another piece, “You Ain’t Kiddin’’, with Ed Helwick of |. Walter Thompson supplying the lyrics. Helwick and Carroll Carroll write the Kraft show, Mr. Crosby’s polysyllabic push-over. The septet above is preoccupied with projecting a composite Hula. Reading in the usual order, the Crass Shackers are Elaine Forbes, Ben Byers, Mary Tyner, Phyllis Murphy, Blanche Davies, Harold Haklik, and Richard Brooks. Reading from right to left, just to vary things, their positions are conductor of “Sidestreet Vignettes’’,Traffic, Secretary to Lew Frost, Press, Secretary to Sam Hayes, Press, and Sales. Here’s Buddy Twiss with a fish story out of the Northwest. Not salmon or trout this time, but smoked white fish. Three years ago Birt Fischer, manager of KOMO, told Buddy he would send him a goodly supply of the fish. No fish came. Buddy wrote him several follow-up letters, but still no fish, no smoked white salmon. Finally Buddy asked Syd Dixon to remind Fischer and, if possible, bring back the finny haul on his return from Seattle. Dixon fared forth staunchly — and brought home the fish, he did. They weren’t unsavory. As a matter of fact, the fish were so good that Buddy is motoring North next month to put in his bid for more of that smoked meat. He has hopes of receiving this shipment shortly before the Buck Rogers’ era. Alec Retry and William Leroy Marshall, who started in Music Rights together back in New York eight years ago, are having a lot of fun these days seeing California with their wives. Mrs. Retry, the former Mary Hunter, worked in the San Francisco office of NBC until she and Alec were married a short while ago. Their home is in Hollywood Hills. Another chap who is getting a kick out of touring around the hinterlands of Los Angeles these days is Bob McAndrews, head of Sales Promotion, recently transferred from Frisco. Jim Lyman, who started out with NBC in San Francisco several years ago, is now with Bob Schuetz in the Radio-Recording Division. Lyman passed the cubebs on VVashington’s Birthday after announcing himself the proud parent of a 7 pound, 7 ounce baby boy, since named Richard. HIKE, READY— SHIFT More changes on the staff: Max Hutto from Program Traffic, to Assistant Night Program Supervisor . . . Bob McWhinney from Maintenance taking his place . . . George Hatch to Maintenance . . . Carl Schaele to that department also, with Bruce Anson taking over his duties in Ticket Distribution . . . Al Gage and Herbert Fearnhead from Guest Relations to Auditing . . . Miles Auer now assistant to Ralph Stephen on the parking lot . . . Bill Brandt taking over Auer’s spot in Maintenance. Quick pix: Bill Andrews, head of Guest Relations, doing a soot of jury duty these days . . . Nadine Amos and Blanche Davies are studying Spanish at the Beverly Hills Night High (to be able to orobe the subtler corners of “For Whom The Bell Tolls”) . . . Kay Harris moving into her new home . . . A. E. Saxton, Division Engineer, going over plans with his Westwood builder . . . Dave Laslev dickering with builders out La Canada way . . . Dresser Dahlstead has a new home in the hills over Lake Hollvwood. Next door neighbor is |oe Kay . . . Johnny Frazer moving into his place in the Valley. A house goes with the swimming pool. Ed. Note — For some time now NBC Hollywood in the person of Noel Corbett has been carrying on a resistance breaking campaign of luxuriant pix. We’d like to know if it’s really true what they say about Dixie-on-the-Pacific.