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.
Radio files contain scripts for Green Valley, U.S.A., It's the Navy, The Long Way Home, Men, Machines, and Victory, On the Beam, First in the Air and various United Nations Radio and public service programs. Also contains sound recordings for several of the programs and some general correspondence concerning Lampell's wartime broadcasting for the Army Air Force.
Papers of a freelance writer of books, articles and radio scripts. The radio section contains correspondence and scripts for Cavalcade of America, The Court of Missing Heirs, The Eternal Light, Labor for Victory, The March of Time, Win the War and other programs and specials.
Collection of this expert on the Soviet Union includes general correspondence, transcripts of hearings and remarks, newsclippings and scripts of his program Soviet Press and Periodicals aired on KPFA, Berkeley, CA.
Papers of a 4-H Club and conservation leader on the staff of the University of Wisconsin Extension Service. Includes mail pertaining to Afield With Ranger Mac, an educational program which McNeel conducted for WHA for 20 years.