NBC Transmitter (Jan-Nov 1942)

)OLY 1942 13 Marie Gerard New Stations Greeter # Meet Miss Marie Gerard. She’s the charming young lady recently named receptionist in the NBC Station Relations Department. In her job, Miss Gerard meets and greets all NBC alliliated station managers and executives visiting New York. Miss Gerard was horn at Fort Stotsenburg, Philippine Islands, where her father, a New Yorker, was a civil engineer on Go vei n men t assignment. He was lost in an airplane flight when she was hut six months old. But she lived in the Philippines, China and Japan before MARIE GERARl the United States at the age of two. Her one memory of infant days in the Far East is that she learned to walk in Japan. Arriving in Seattle, she was brought directly to New York and has lived there since. Prior to joining NBC she was a receptionist at the Westinghouse Building at the New York World’s Fair and a Powers model. Her avocation is singing and she is still studying at the Metropolitan Opera Choral School with an active operatic career as her chief objective. WHO Drops Corn Belt Contests Due to War • In the interests of conserving rubber, gasoline and other fuel oils, WHO, Des Moines, Iowa, has cancelled plans for the annual Corn Belt Plowing Matches, according to Herb Plambeck, WHO farm news editor and contest director. Plambeck pointed out that increased farm activity, shortage of farm labor and the elimination of unnecessary transportation are other factors in the decision to discontinue the annual farm sports event “for the duration.” The third annual match at Albia last year attracted 38 contestants from three states who competed before a crowd of between 20,000 and 25,000 persons. While relinquishing active sponsorship of the Corn Belt Match, WHO will continue to cooperate with all communities interested in holding county matches. DEEP IN THE ARM IN TEXAS % Janice Jarratt injects pep — and plenty of it — into the WOAI (San Antonio, Texas) news department as she begins her new series of appearances. Miss Jarratt, known as ''the most photographed girl in America,” culminates a colorful career of commercial modeling and movie work by handling the "W omans Page of the Air” feature. P assessor of a natural journalistic ability and a radio voice which is receiving acclaim from listeners, she is considered to be one of the greatest radio “finds” in the southwest. Miss jarratt will augment her programs of womens news with interviews of outstanding personalities over WOAI. Corwin Riddell, WOAI news chief, beams his pleasure over the station's acquisition of Miss Jarratt, in the photo above. of the State, from as far south as Miami, as far north as Boston and as far west as Chicago. “Persons listening to these talks write in commendations or criticisms, so that quite frequently they give me their own views not only on matters discussed but on other matters which I find helpful in formulating subjects for future talks.” As an example of the timeliness and importance of the topics covered. Senator Tydings pointed out that before Pearl Harbor, there were two talks on the military strength of Japan on land, sea and in the air. Labor, tax and shipping problems were among the additional subjects. Mike • With the war implying that there will be a shortage of male announcers, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is employing girls for the mike assignments. Air Tydings' Tidings For Public Guidings • The use of radio as a means for a legislator to keep in touch with his constituents is highly extolled by Senator Millard E. Tydings, of Maryland. He has been featured in a fifteen-minute talk each Sunday night over WBAL, Baltimore, for the past year. Senator Tydings terms the broadcast report a “worthwhile institution,” inasmuch as it brings the representative in intimate touch with his constituents and creates a better knowledge and understanding of current Government problems. “I have been astounded on going into different communities in Maryland,” the Senator stated, “at the number of people who tell me they are listening each week to these broadcasts. I have likewise received many letters from listeners outside