Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1950)

Hn HARRISON WOOD MORGAN BEATTY W. W. CHAPLIN LOCKWOOD DOTY Harrison Wood started his radio career doing book reviews. He soon expanded his topics until now there are few subjects upon which he doesn't comment with knowledge and authority. His particular field is the Orient and his discussions of its peoples have been heard on both the lecture platform and over the air waves. He is a graduate of the University of Kentucky. Morgan Beatty, who handles a daily news of the world program for NBC, has been called "America's outstanding disaster reporter." The holder of this title has been acknowledged more formally for his abilities — namely with the Headliner's Award, 194-7 and the DuPont Radio Commentator's Award, 1949. Born in Little Rock, he worked for the AP, came to NBC in '41. W. W. Chaplin is NBC's roving reporter. As such, he has covered the atom bomb tests at Bikini, the UN Security Council opening in London, and thefifty-one nation peace conference in Paris. He came to NBC's news staff in 1943, working out of the London office. Before joining NBC, Chaplin worked for the Syracuse Journal, the AP and the International News Service. Lockwood Doty worked on radio stations in Buffalo, Boston and Atlanta before coming to New York as a staff member of NBC's News and Special Events Department. Born in 1921 in Lockport, New York, he went to school in Avon, Conn., and on to Trinity College in Hartford, graduating in 1942. He's married, has a year old daughter nicknamed "Trinket." JAMES FLEMING James Fleming, who handles NBC's Voices and Events program, served in General MacArthur's headquarters as radio reporter during the war, and until he joined NBC in 1949, had been supervisor of ECA's radio activities. Fleming is a native of Baraboo, Wis., and holds a B.A. from the U. of Chicago. He was once asked to leave Russia for arguing with a censor. GEORGE T. FOLSTER George Thomas Folster, who was with the 1st Cavalry Division when it invaded Eastern Korea in July, heads the NBC Tokyo News Bureau. His tape recordings of the landings were among the first to reach American audiences. Folster's acquaintance with the Orient stems back to a South Seas expedition he made for the American Museum of Natural History. RICHARD HARKNESS Commentator on the Washington scene for NBC is Richard Harkness who first distinguished himself when, as a reporter for the UP, he exposed the Pendergast machine. As a writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, the White House was his beat. During the 1940 presidential campaign, he toured with both Willkie and Roosevelt. He came to NBC in 1942. RAY HENLE Ray Henle, along with Felix Morley and Ned Brooks, handles NBC's Three Star Extra. This distinguished trio (Henle is credited with having some of the best news sources in Washington; Morley, a Pulitzer Prize winner, is also a former college president; and Brooks, is a crack writer for Scripps-Howard ) presents a discussion and analysis of the news. GEORGE HICKS Among other distinctions, NBC's George Hicks can boast that he has never held a job other than one in radio. While at Georgetown U., he found a part-time job as staff announcer on WRC, NBC's Washington, D. C, station. That was in 1928 and the announcing and reporting voice of Hicks has been a part of the NBC scene ever since. Married, he has one son. H. V. KALTENBORN Few news commentators are better known than H. V. Kaltenborn, especially since his coverage of the Munich crisis in 1938. Kaltenborn was born in Milwaukee, Wis., in 1878, won a Phi Beta Kappa key from Harvard, worked for the Brooklyn Eagle and in 1922, in an address to the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, launched his celebrated career. LEON PEARSON Leon Pearson, who covers the United Nations for NBC, has been close to that organization since its inception. He was at Dumbarton Oaks, San Francisco and the first London meeting of the General Assembly. Like his famous brother Drew, Leon was graduated from Swarthmore. He was a member of the Washington MerryGo-Round staff for ten years. c% «*&> %gjL ROBERT TROUT Robert Trout's radio career began in Washington, D. C, a city which seems to have given impetus to the careers of a number of famous radio commentators. Bob came to NBC's news staff in 1948; before that he had been newscaster for another network, assigned to such strategic spots as England during the Blitz, and San Francisco for the UN conference:. 37 ||