Radio Digest (July 1924-Apr 1925)

August 9, 1924 BEFORE THEY THOUGHT OF "MIKES" RADIO DICES T— Illustrated i Paul J. Miller, KQV MUSIC is the avocation of Paul J Miller, the youngest operator and announcer of Station KQV, Pittsburgh, Pa. He began to play the piano before he could touch his feet to the floor from the piano stool, and at the shining age of eight years, was the feature performer before an audience of some six hundred people. Playing ball is his summer pastime and during the past season, he suddenly rose to fame as an amateur theatrical "producer." (Please note the 'word — and he also played "juvenile lead for the show.") Incidentally, he plays the church organ on Sundays. This aspiring young Radio salesman, announcer and operator, hopes to add "Electrical Enginering" to his list of real achievements. He is studiously pursuing a correspondence course to this end. But — city life does not appeal to him, he prefers the open country and simple life, and will be found helping to develop the great wide-space communications of the U. S. in the electrical field. Small of stature, Paul Miller commands attention none the less and with brown hair and large blue eyes, a radiating smile of good humor and a pleasing address he is surely one of the big assets of KQV. He started in the Radio game way back in 1914, when his total assets in the way of Radio apparatus consisted of a coherer and a couple of nails, which were used as the electrodes of a spark gap. left, is Paul J. Miller who is announcer at Station KQV. This young man has been in the Radio Game since 1913, and he is still going strong. Above to the left is a photograph of the announcer at Station K out on the Pacific coast. Upper right, crying for all he is worth, is the famous announcer at Station W , located in the south. Watch for his grown-up next week, as this is a good likeness of him. Bight, is N. Dean Cole, announcer at Station WHO, Des Moines, Iowa. I N. Dean Cole, WHO THE grown up picture of N. Dean Cole while taken some four years ago still shows quite a likeness to the chief announcer and studio director of WHO except for the fact that he has Radio Station Destroyed by Fire; Damage $25,000 BREMERTON, WASH. — One of the powerful Radio stations of the United States navy located in Cordova, Alaska, and used commercially, was destroyed by fire on the night of July 3, it was revealed here from the office of communications of the Puget Sound navy yard, which is located at this point. The loss is placed at $25,000. % TELL ARTIST EDITOR OF YOUR FAVORITES DO YOU have a favorite Radiocast artist whose picture has not appeared in Radio Digest? If so tell the Artist Photo editor about it. Write him a little note mentioning the artisfs name and station and he will attempt to give you what you want. The photographs, however, will be restricted to those artists for whom there are a number of requests. Space limitations demand the latter provision. Just write your note to the Artist Photo editor, care of Radio Digest, Chicago. since added bone rimmed glasses. He was born in New Tork City twen.ty-seven years ago. Being asked for a short description of himself this is what he had to say: Height, about five feet and eleven inches. Weight, not so good, only about one hundred and fifty pounds. Complexion, light; color of hair, light brown (prefers not to be called a blonde). Eyes, sort of a mixture of a blue and a gray. Habits, we couldn't get him to mention this subject. Married some tlwee years, success fully. Talents, speaking and singing occasionally. Mr. Cole has spent about nine years in the telephone business beginning in 1916. He worked until he enlisted in the Signal Corp, United States Army, April, 1917. After enlisting in the Signal Corp he was sent to Camp Dodge, where he met the girl who was later to become Mrs. Cole. After leaving Camp Dodge he spent a year with the A. E. F., during which time he was in France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Germany, England and Scot land. Returning from Europe he continued his associations with the New York Telephone company. After being married he returned to New York where he spent a year and one-half. Until affiliated with WHO he was with the North Western' Bell Telephone company employed in Des Moines. Mr. Cole's only reason for thinking that he could qualify as an announcer was the fact that he has been using a microphone for about nine years. We will leave it to you to decide whether he has made a success of it or not. 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