Radio and television mirror (Nov 1939-Apr 1940)

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The Vienna Anschluss caught him on his way to Latvia to arrange some folk music broadcasts. He had to get to Berlin and the only possible way to go was by plane. And the only plane available was a big, 23-passenger ship. He chartered that and flew to Berlin alone in it. From Berlin he flew to Vienna just in time to see the German troops entering the city. * * * JOHN STEELE (Cont'd) news session they call on Steele to bring his fellow citizens to the appointed place. Steele was born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1870. He came to this country in 1885 and became a naturalized citizen in 1893. He worked for the New York Herald and the New York World as a reporter, then became night editor of the New York Commercial and then a commercial editor on the New York Times. From 1919 to 1935 he worked for the London branch of the Chicago Tribune, after which time he joined the Mutual network as big boss. Steele's home is in Coulsdon, Surrey, but during this war crisis he is staying at a London hotel. He's married, has two children, and is now a grandfather. * * * MAX JORDAN (Cont'd) Then he spent three years traveling about the world with note books and a camera. His next job was working for the Hearst papers in Washington. In 1931 he won the appointment as European Representative for NBC. Since that time, he has been covering Europe, hopping from country to country, arranging for broadcasts of anything and everything that might be of interest to American listeners. Most of his career as a writer, photographer, lecturer and broadcaster has been highlighted by scoops. The most recent one, of course, was the "16 Points" beat. But hescooped such exclusive stories as the first big oil deal between the United States and Russia, and the dramatic events connected with the attempted Bergdoll kidnapping. * * * ELMER DAVIS (Cont'd) scholarship to Queen's College, Oxford, in 1912, that started him on his life-long interest in politics and foreign affairs. From 1914 to 1924 he was a reporter for the New York Times. His interest in politics led him to cover every major national political convention in the last twenty years. To the general public, he is best known for his novels and the short stories which have appeared in most of the leading fiction magazines of the country. His most popular novels are "Friends of Mr. Sweeney" and "I'll Show You the Town." Davis acquitted himself so well in the recent crisis that CBS has decided to keep him on their staff, although H. V. Kaltenborn is back in this country. WILLIAM L. SHIRER (Cont'd) "Europe's Listening Post" He has a radio in his office on which he can get any European station. Shirer was born in Chicago, 35 years ago. While still going to Coe College, he worked as a reporter on the Cedar Rapids Gazette. After graduation, he shipped to Europe on a cattle boat and got a job on the Chicago Tribune in Paris. He worked for the Tribune until 1932, his work taking him to London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Geneva, Berlin and Madrid. He first broke into radio during the Hindenburg disaster. He had been working all night for Universal News Service and CBS called him to talk about the German reaction to the disaster. He had no time to sleep, wrote his copy in five hours and went on the air, too tired to be nervous. He was hired by CBS immediately after that. Shirer is married to a former Viennese newspaperwoman and has a small daughter. * * * THOMAS B. GRANDIN— The dramatic descriptions of the present situation in Paris that come over the air to you are made by Thomas B. Grandin. He is the newest important member of the CBS Foreign staff, having been hired after the Czech Crisis in 1938. He was brought to the attention of CBS by the vivid and complete picture he gave of the mobilization of Paris, when asked to speak at a moment's notice. Grandin is American born, but has spent most of his time since he got his degree from Yale University abroad. * * * GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT— That George Fielding Eliot's analyses of the present war from the military viewpoint are keen and far sighted is not surprising considering his background. He has been connected with military service almost all of his adult life. He retired from active service in the American Military Intelligence Reserve only five years ago. He makes frequent contributions to national magazines and has written two books, "The Ramparts We Watch" and "Bombs Bursting in Air." Eliot was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1894. He is now in London and you will be hearing a good deal of his bluff, hearty, easy and informative speech over the air from now on. * # * H. V. KALTENBORN— The Czech Crisis, last year, was the first major International crisis radio was called on to cover. Radio was not as well prepared then as it is now to handle a news situation of this magnitude. Out of the general confusion caused in radio by the need to find new, efficient and rapid means to collect and broadcast the latest developments in the crisis and their meanings, H. V. Kaltenborn leaped into fame as the ace commentator and analyst of news in America. Kaltenborn was born in Milwaukee, 61 years ago. He fought in the Spanish-American War, he was a newspaperman in Wisconsin, New York and Europe. He seems to have had a knack of being where crises arose when they arose. He has interviewed most of the important figures in world RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR