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Name A ddrtss WHAT'S NEW FROM ■ Herbert Flaig (seated right) brings Clyde McCoy and a bevy of chorus girls to the WLW microphone. Lili Valenti, who plays Rose on the CBS serial, Joyce Jordan, Girl Interne, has also played minor parts in the same story from time to time, and in them has "died" three times — all on the same program. The last time she "died" she walked out of the studio after the broadcast, slipped, and sprained her ankle. Lili says she's not superstitious, but she doesn't want to be in another death-bed scene, for fear something worse might happen. * * * That Alan Reed, announcer on Colonel Stoopnagle's Quixie Doodle show over MBS, is none other than your old comedy friend, Teddy Bergman. Teddy decided to change his name as a matter of business. The old one limited him to comedy jobs on the air, but the new one, with its added dignity, gives him a chance to be an announcer and an actor as well. Already he's playing the role of Rocky Marshall on the NBC serial, One of the Finest, besides announcing the Stoopnagle program. Incidentally, he and Stoop claim to be the heaviest . announcer-comedian team on the air. Together they weigh 439 pounds, of which Alan — or Teddy, if you like him better by his old name — accounts for 237. * * * THE poet who wrote that "Man may work from sun to sun" didn't have a radio special events broadcaster in mind. Herb Flaig, special events man of Cincinnati's two Crosley stations, WLW and WSAI, knows that his work, like woman's, is never done. This is particularly true on stations like WLW and WSAI. because they pay special attention to putting newsworthy happenings on the air. Herb, who is a dark-haired youth with handsome, regular features, pursues and sometimes is pursued by celebrities of all sorts — chorus girls, movie and opera stars, aviators, politicians. Sometimes it's easy enough to get them on the air, but on the other hand he frequently has to work days arranging a single fifteen-minute interview with some person who is shy of a microphone and the listening public. Herb's two stations have all sorts of equipment for going into the highways and byways for news and entertainment. Besides maintaining transmission lines to railroad stations, airports, and all the leading hotels and night clubs, they have three mobile units and two pack transmitters. Two of the mobile units are housed in large automobiles and the third in a midget car, while the pack transmitters weigh thirty pounds each and can be strapped to an announcer's shoulders while he threads his way through crowds at football games, parades or other large gatherings. The worst thing that ever happened to a reporter carrying a pack transmitter, Herb says, occurred during the judging of a livestock show at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus. "Our announcer, John Conrad, was carrying the pack, when one of the bulls decided he didn't care for radio or radio announcers. He broke loose from his owner and took after John. They raced around the ring for two whole minutes before John could hand the mike to an assistant and leap over the railing to safety." Almost as nerve-shattering was the occasion when, after days of preparation, a coast-to-coast broadcast of an Easter pageant from Marion, Indiana, was lost to the nation simply because a technician in the telephone company's control room left a repeater open. Or the time when a sudden storm came up just before a remotecontrol broadcast and tore down the lines it would have traveled on. All these alarms and excursions have given Herb Flaig a hardened calm that nothing much can shake. He has to have it, to go through some of the catastrophes he's seen, among RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR