Radio age research, manufacturing, communications, broadcasting, television (1941)

zines, and radio news broadcasts. At the present time, they have a great deal of difficulty hearinjr our short-wave broadcasts. In Tunis, Algiers, and other cen- ters, the Army operates low-pow- ered radio stations which send out recorded broadcasts of all our pop- ular American programs — Bob Hope, Fibber McGee and Molly, Kate Smith, Fred Waring, and the others. The real complaint among the boys is that they don't get enough news about happenings on the home front. These complaints will be ironed out. We feel certain that the vari- ous agencies of the government con- cerned with the upkeep of the morale of our soldiers will do their utmost to improve this important matter of supplying news overseas. We have several plans to correct these shortcomings and we intend to discuss them with government officials. Both the newspaper and radio correspondents on the fighting fronts are doing a great job, in my opinion. Our correspondents have done superb work in giving factual accounts of the successes of the troops. But they haven't personal- ized the war as I think it can be done and as these generals want it done. For instance, when some .Johnny Doughboy single-handedly takes a machinegun nest and per- mits some platoon to occupy a high place as a result of his activities, there ought to be some credit given that particular kid. At present nothing is being done to bring home to the American public the accom- plishments of the boys who are bearing the brunt of the fighting. It was inevitable that this trip should have some effect on our post- war planning and we have come to the conclusion that after the war there must be an organization, rep- resenting the free countries, whose sole mission it will be to see that radio henceforth shall be used for good instead of evil. Radio must no longer be an in- strument for propaganda. It must become a free medium for mass communication — entertaining, in- structing, but never warping the minds and souls of people as it did in Italy and Germany. tlEORCE K. THRCHKJIORTON (LEFT), RETIRING VICE I'KESUIE.NT A.ND DIREC- TOR OF RCA, CONGRATULATES HIS SUCCESSOR, FRANK M. FOLSOM. FOLSOM HEADS RCA VICTOR Former Chief of Procurement Branch of Naoy Succeeds Throckmorton \ As Vice President and Director of Radio Corporation of America FRANK M. FOLSOM, Chief of the Procurement Branch of the Navy Department, was elected a V'ice-President and a Director of Uadio Corporation of America on December 4, David Sarnoff, Presi- dent, announced. Mr. Folsom. who served with the Navy until Decem- ber 1, will be in charge of the com- p ally's manufacturing division. RCA Victor, with principal plants in si.K cities and headquarters at Camden, N. J. He assumed his new duties January 1. Mr. Folsom was born in Spraguc. Washington, and is 19 years of age. Mr. Sarnoff also announced that I he Board had accei)ted with regret the resignation of George K. Throckmorton as an RCA Vice- President a n d Director. M r . Throckmorton, who was head of the RCA Victor Division, is retiring for reasons of health, but will con- tinue as a consultant to the com- pany. Personal messages to David Sar- noff, from Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Under-Secretary of the Navy -James Forrestal, and Chairman of the War Production Board, Donald M. Nelson, expressed deep appreciation of the value of Mr. Folsom's services to the Navy. In commenting on Mr. Folsom's election. Mr. Sarnoff said: "The operations of the RCA \'ic- tor Division, with its large jilants and many thousands of employees, involve the design and manufacture of important war production as- signments for the Navy. Army, Air Forces and Maritime Commission. These assignments call for leader- ship, experience and ability of the tiighest order. The need for a man (if unusual qualifications is en- hanced by the prospect of our post- war manufacturing activities in radio, television, electronics, phono- graph records and allied fields. Rec- ognizing the problems of full scale war production, as well as post-war conversion and the expanded role distribution will need to play to provide maximum employment, we feel the company is extremely for- tunate in its choice of Mr. Folsom." [22 RADIO AGE