NBC Transmitter (Mar-Oct 1941)

JULY, 1941 15 H O L LY W O O D Noel Corbett GOLF NOTES The NBC AA chose the picturesque Palos Verdes Country Club for their third annual golf tournament this year. Staff Trumpeter Bob Kimic shot low gross of 78 to win. Sax player Dick Eckeles was second with a 79. Bing Crosby and George Hatch, the defending champ, tied for third place. Low net honors went to Bob Brooke of Engineering, followed by John Wald of the Richfield Reporter program. Sperry Newscaster Sam Hayes tied with Lew Frost for third. The most handsome prize of all was carried off by George Volger. All Ceorgie had to do was to take his time between each hole, running up the highest gross score. Ceorgie pointed out that winning the swell Daily Variety cup didn’t surprise him at all, because he’s getting all the luck these days. It was only a couple of weeks before that Mrs. Volger presented him with a baby girl. Tracy Moore’s inauguration as head man of the Ad Club of Los Angeles means that the Western Division Blue Network Sales Manager is the first radio man ever to hold both the vice-presidency and presidency of the Ad group. The season’s highlight in radio circles was jack Benny’s 10th Anniversary party at the Biltmore Bowl, which was attended by over a thousand important radio people. Eastern NBCers who were there included President Niles Trammell, Sidney Strotz, John Royal, Clay Morgan, Bertha Brainard and Ed Hitz. New to Alex Robb’s Program and Talent Sales Department is Leo B. Tyson, formerly of KMPC . . . Robb’s new secretary is Norma Rinehart and Honor Holden is now Department Auditor. . . . Alene Butcher and Dorothy Daniels, both new to that Department. . . . Margaret Kent is now Lew Frost’s secretary, taking the place of Blanche Davies, vacated when she resigned to go to San Francisco and become a full time housewife. . . . Vava Bowers has taken a leave of absence (expecting the stork) and Grace Leddy has taken her place as Bill Andrew’s secretary in Guest Relations. Aubrey Ison is now shuffling tickets in Andrew’s department. . . . Traffic Department personnel notes included; Harold Haklik now Night Traffic clerk . . . Bud Spencer, Day Telegraph supervisor . . . Lefty Lefler, Night Program transmission supervisor . . . Miles Auer and Don Smith, both new to the Department. . . . Ernie Brashear now in Music Rights and Nathan Scott into Music Research . . . Bruce Anson now a junior announcer . . . Florence Cidley into Press, taking the spot Phyllis Murphey left open when she went to Auditing . . . Frank Hall now on the parking lot. QUICK PIX . . . Don E. Gilman, Sidney Dixon, Red Sales manager; Tracy Moore, Blue Sales manager and Bob McAndrews, Sales Promotion manager, will attend the PACA Convention at Santa Barbara, June 29. . . . Abbott Tessman, announcer, gave himself the hot-foot when he fell asleep under a beach umbrella with naught but the bottoms of his feet exposed to the sun’s rays. . . . Hal Brock, Press head, had a new rancho out past Van Nuys in the Valley. . . . NBC Softballers took on Kay Kyser’s champs; score lost on the way home. . . . j. R. O’Kelly, field engineer, out for seven weeks with a broken jaw. . . . Bob Schuetz, head Vice-President Don E. Gilman lunched the Hollywood Press Department in the American Room of the Brown Derby in honor of their topping off Billboard Magazine’s Annual Radio Exploitation Survey for the second year. Left to right, Noel Corbett, Catharine Schall, Dorothy Waknitz. Matt Barr, Martha Sherwin, Hal Bock, Press head, and Clay Morgan, standing. Mr. Gilman, Frances Scully, joe Alvin, Nell Cleary, Phyllis Murphey, Art Carter, photographer, and Ben Byers. of Radio Recording Division, toured the Northwest. . . . John Swallow, Division Program manager, also on a northern business trip. . . . The Alex Robbs and the Hal Bocks celebrated their wedding anniversaries the same day. The Robbs are 1 5 years up on the Bocks, however. . . . Bob Moss and Dave Elton are motoring East together. . . . Another going East for a new car is Martha Sherwin of Press. . . .Wendell Williams and his wife, the former Helen Buchta of New York, will vacation at Priest Lake, Idaho, after which she will vacation in Gotham. . . . William’s secretary, Kathleen Kelly, will vacation in Yosemite. . . . Wynn Rocamora on a business trip to New York. . . . Wally Boone had his tonsils yanked. . . . Nell Cleary of Press and PBX Operator Bill Clevenger, both sporting canes; bad ankles. . . . Nadine Amos, Mr. Gilman’s secretary, still industriously studying Spanish. . . . MEMO Now that Charlie Turner is in the army and we have a new editor there is no longer the danger of out-of-town correspondents being frightened by memos signed Phtholognyrrh. Unraveled, that spells Turner, believe it or not. The explanation for this bizarre orthography is as follows; phth, as in phthisic, is T olo, as in colonel, is UR gn, as in gnat, is N yrrh, as in myrrh, is ER