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GEORGE HICKS — NBC Announcer
EORGE FRANCIS HICKS yearned for a life of adventure. He wanted to go places where things happened, so he determined to study for the consular service at Washington, D. C., and then see foreign lands. To attend the consular school one needs money and Hicks decided that the best method of procuring ready cash was by working. Once he had been granted a radio audition in his home town, Tacoma, Washington, and been told he possessed a good talking voice. In the Nation’s capital Hicks wrote every radio station nearby asking for an announcer’s job. Nothing came of it. He then applied in person at the NBC Washington studios. Two announcers had just left. Another was needed immediately. Hicks was selected from among two hundred applicants and assigned to duty at once. That was in 1927. The next year he joined the New York staff of the National Broadcasting Company. He is regularly assigned to announce special events and has covered many outstanding broadcasts. Hicks is serious, conscientious and enthusiastic. When he is assigned to a special broadcast he usually stays up half the night before studying the subject. He is six feet tall and weighs 160 pounds. He is single. Hicks was born under the shadow of Mount Tacoma in the state of Washington. Much of his boyhood was passed on Puget Sound where he learned, among other things, salmon fishing. He attended school in Tacoma and participated actively in athletics. He went a year each to the University of Washington and Puget Sound College. In the meantime he worked in logging camps, saw mills, shipyards, as truck driver and at other tasks. One day he found school had grown tiresome and he asked the captain of a freighter for a job. The captain employed Hicks and two hours later he sailed for the East coast. He left the ship in New York and went to Washington, D. C., to visit relatives. Then he returned to Tacoma, entered school for a time, then shipped to Alaska as clerk on a freighter. After many experiences above the Arctic Circle he decided to try for the consular service and so went to the national capital again. Radio followed.
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