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Thursday, October 27, 1949
RADIO DAILY
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Pioneers Launching Membership Drive
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age" deal has been set at $15, covering 1950 dues and the silver microphone lapel insignia. Prospective members must have been in the radio field for 20 years, "more or less consecutively."
Present membership of the club is well over 300, Haverlin said. New members include three CBS vicepresidents — the first to represent that network within the club: Lawrence W. Lowman, Herbert V. Akerberg, and Hubbell Robinson Jr. Other new members: J. Harold Ryan, Fort Industry Co.; John Elmer, president and commercial manager, WCBM, Baltimore; Clair McCullough, president, WGAL, Lancaster, Pa.; Sydney M. Kaye, vice chairman of the board, BMI; M. E. Tompkins, president, Associated Music Publishers; L. B. Wilson, president, WCKY, Cincinnati, and John V. L. Hogan, president, WQXR. New York.
Also Jules Seebach, program director, WOR, New York; Wayne Latham, program director, WSPR, Springfield, Mass.; F. E. Spencer, George P. Hollingbery Co.; R. Sanford Guyer, president and general manager, WBTM, Danville, Va.; Charles A. Wall, vice-president in charge of finance, BMI; George Nixon, Jarrett Hathaway and Russ Johnston, NBC; Les Biederman, president and general manager, WTGM, Traverse City, Michigan; Max Bastel, RCA Victor; C. K. Beaver, general manager, KTBS, Shreveport, La.; Sam Hayes, NBC Hollywood; Howard Hildreth, Mohawk Carpet Mills, Amsterdam, N. Y.; Eldon Park, vice-president and manager, WINS, New York; Al Nicoll, BMI, and Walter Benoit, Westinghouse Radio Stations.
Also Emilio Azcarraga, director, Radio Programmas de Mexico; Sol Taishoff , editor and publisher, "Broadcasting"; Jerry Franken, r.adio editor, "The Billboard"; T. R. Kennedy, "The New York Times;" Martin Codell, publisher, "TV Digest;" Frank Burke, editor Radio Daily.
'Superman' Not For Tots In Its New ABC Format
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Mutual, going off the air in June. Bud Collyer, who has enacted the title role for nine and a half years without missing a broadcast, will resume his chores in the ABC version.
Groucho Marx On CBS As De Soto Simulcast
West Coast Bureau of RADIO DAILY
Hollywood — The Groucho Marx show has definitely been sold to De Soto starting January 1st. The show will remain at CBS at same time and when it returns to air in fall of 1950, it will be simultaneously televised and broadcast.
NETWORK SONG FAVORITES
The top 30 songs of the week (more in case of ties), based on the copyrighted Audience Coverage Index Survey of Popular Music Broadcast over Radio Networks. Published by the Office of Research, Inc., Dr. John Peatman, Director. Survey Week of October 14-20, 1949
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A Dreamer's Holiday Shapiro-Bernstein
A Thousand Violins Paramount
Ain't She Sweet Advanced
Dime A Dozen E. H. Morris
Don"; Cry loe Harms
Downhearted Orten Music
Fiddle Dee Dee Harms
Four Winds And The Seven Seas Lombardo
Georgia On My Mind Peer
I Can Dream Can't I Chappell
I Never See Maggie Alone Bourne
Ii's A Great Feeling Remick
Jealous Heart Acuff & Rose
Just One Way To Say I Love You Berlin
Last Mile Home Leeds
Let's Take An Old Fashioned Walk Berlin
Love Is A Beautiful Thing Porgie
Make Believe (You Are Glad When You're Sorry) . . ..Bregman-Vocco-Conn
Maybe It's Because Bregman-Vocco-Conn
My Bolero Shapiro-Bernstein
Nothing Less Than Beautiful Henry Spitzer
Now That I Need You, (Where Are You) Famous
Room Full Of Roses Hill & Range
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon Regent
Some Enchanted Evening Chappell
Someday You'll Want Me To Want You Duchess
That Lucky Old Sun Robbins
There's Yes Yes In Your Eyes Witmark
Through A Long And Sleepless Night Miller
Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye Feist
Twenty-Four Hours Of Sunshine Advanced
Younger Than Springtime Chappell
You're Breaking My Heart, Mellin
Second Group
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Bali Ha'i Chappell
Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue Feist
Give Me A Song With A Beautiful Melody Witmark
Hop Scotch Polka Cromwell
Huckle Buck United
I Can't Believe It Claremont
I'm Throwing Rice At The Girl I Love Hill & Range
In Santiago By The Sea Life Music
Just Fo: Fun Paramount
Let's Harmonize San tl yJoy
Meadows Of Heaven Laurel
My Own My Only My All Paramount
Over The Hillside Dreyer
River Seine Remick
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer St. Nicholas
Slipping Around peer
So In Love t. B. Harms
Souvenir Beacon
Story Of Annie Laurie Santly-Joy
Why Fall In Love With A Stranger Campbell
Wishing Star Broadcast Music
You Told A Lie Bourne
You're My Thrill Sam Fox
Copyright 1949 by Office of Research, Inc.
AWB Annual Meet Scheduled Nov. 5-6
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with, conference chairman of AWB.
The central theme for the 1949 conclave is "The Woman Broad-aster Looks Ahead." Highlighting the two-day meeting will be the panel discussions scheduled for Saturday morning and afternoon with leading women broadcasters and executives participating.
"This Week's Paycheck — Who Earns It, And How! Who Pays, And Why!" is the subject for the Nov. 5th morning meeting. The panel includes Gertrude Grover, of WHCU, Ithaca, Y.; Barbara Wells, Nancy Craig, Linnea Nelson, Mary Eileen Ranney, and Maurice Mitchell, director, Broadcast Advertisers Bureau.
The subject for the Saturday afternoon discussion will be: "Tomorrow's Pot Of Gold— TV." The speakers will include Mrs. Geraldine Zorbaugh, ABC, who will act as moderator, Ruth Crane, Frances Buss, Dorothy Doan, Elizabeth Neebe, and Jack Poppele, chief engineer, WOR.
A business breakfast for AWB members will be held Sunday morning. Representatives from NAB member stations in New York and New Jersey, comprising District 2, are expected to attend. Sally Work is chairman of District 2.
Committee members are: Doris Corwith, NBC, chairman; Dorothy A. Kemble, Mutual, vice-chairman and director of publicity; Ruth Trexler, ABC; Alma Dettinger, WQXR; Linnea Nelson, J. Walter Thompson, and Agnes Law, CBS.
Carol Adams In Drama
Canton, Ohio — Carol Adams, women's editor at WHBC, will appear in the forthcoming production of the Canton Players' Guild on November 17. She has been cast as Winifred Talbot in "Portrait in Black," a murder mystery thriller.
WEV0 117 119 W. 46 SI HENRY GREENFIELD, Mg. Director N.Y.I9