A radio and television announcer, talk radio host and newspaper columnist best known for his association with WSAU and WSAU-TV, Wausau, WI. Collection consists of examples of his writings and scripts, clippings about his career and some listener mail. Audio recordings include examples of 55 Feedback, early radio broadcasts, news, national and local musical performances and 1940 interviews with players for the Green Bay Packers recorded at WTAQ.
Papers of a Milwaukee pioneer in the field of broadcast journalism, including material relating to WTMJ and national and state organizations such as the National Association of Radio News Directors and the Radio Television News Directors Association.
Repository/Collector:
Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Papers of an experimental and developmental psychologist best known for his NBC program Keeping Mentally Fit and newspaper columns on psychology for the lay person.
Recordings of a broadcaster and editor consisting mainly of Books and Voices, a radio series moderated for Westinghouse Broadcasting Co., 1956-1957, and Progress, a series of public service interviews prepared for General Electric, 1961-1962.
Papers of a radio and television news broadcaster noted for his coverage of World War II and the United Nations. The bulk of the collection consists of scripts written for NBC, ABC, NET, CBC and the Voice of America plus speeches and writings. The scripts chiefly concern the North African theater during World War II and the development of the United Nations, 1950-1977, and were written for such programs as ABC Evening News, Issues and Answers, News Around the World, United or Not? and Army Hour. Written material is supplemented by films and recordings. There are also some letters relating to MacVane's presidency of the Association of Radio and Television News Analysts and the United Nations Correspondents Association.
Correspondence collected by Penn, a broadcast historian, concerning the early history of WHA, the radio station of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the work of physicist Earl M. Terry. Also includes an address by Terry, ca. 1925, a WHA program log, 1922-1925, and a history of the station by Harold A. Engel.
Letter, August 7, 1957, from Jones, a broadcast executive, describing his part in the litigation between the Associated Press and KVOS, Bellingham, WA which dealt with the right of radio stations to access and present news information to their audiences.
Consists of correspondence, an oral history interview, scripts for Monitor, News on the Hour, Today in Washington, Weekend Report and World News Roundup and subject files for NBC special and background reports.
Papers of a playwright, screenwriter and editor consisting chiefly of synopses, treatments, scenarios and scripts for Nicholson's work in theater, motion pictures and radio. Includes scripts for Cavalcade of America which Nicholson produced and Theatre Guild on the Air, a.k.a. United States Steel Hour.
Papers of a writer, storyteller and radio, television and literary talent agent. Stix conceived the idea of a talent agency for radio news commentators in the early 1940s and formed a company with CBS newsman John G. Gude. Their clients eventually included Eleanor Roosevelt, Raymond Gram Swing, Joseph C. Harsch, Fannie Hurst, William L. Shirer and Edward R. Murrow among others.