U. S. Radio (Oct 1957-Dec 1958)

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around radio • • • WHDH DISC JOCKEY R , nard interviews Mrs. Henry MacKay at her nome in Framingham, Mass., during his "Two and Eight Date" program. Leonard and other WHDH, Boston, personalities broadcast complete two-hour shows from listeners' living rooms and back yards. Listener-hostesses must be members of a civic-minded organization. gUICK FIRE COVERAGE results as news car from KOL radio, Seattle, relays on-the-spot news bulletins to station from $1,000,000 lumber mill fire. KOL's remote newscasts assure speedy and thorough coverage, and have attracted large audiences. TALL TALES AND TRUE are told by 6' 10" disc jockey Carl Bentley as he becomes an honorary commodore of the Port of Los Angeles. The award was presented by Harbor commissioners Charles Tanner (left) and Lloyd A. Henveg (right), to honor Bentley's work in publicizing the port during his daily seagoing radio show broadcast from the deck of the S. S. Catalina for KBIG Los Angpjps. KEY FROM THE CITY is presented to a youngster representing the Cleveland Society for Crippled Children by Wes Hopkins, KYW disc iockey. Hopkins raised $3,000 for the new station wagon by asking listeners to send in their Ohio sales tax stamps. The station wagon is to be used for transporting the children to the Society's medical center for treatment. A REAL NICE CLAMBAKE It was. attracting 6,500 guests who put away 200 bushels HUNGRY GUESTS ARRIVE for the "V^orlds Largest Clambake" held at Plymouth. Mass., by WBZ, Boston, and the F. H. Snow Canning Co. Political and civic figures from all over New England came as guests of the Westlnghouse Broadcasting Co. while the public secured tickets by submitting labels from products of the sponsor. of clams, 5,000 lobsters, 6,000 pounds of sweet potatoes, 5.000 ears of corn, 200 watermelons and 500 gallons of coffoc. The complete affair was arranged and conducted by Dearn and McGrath. a Plymouth company that specializes in staging clambakes.