A newspaper, radio and television journalist, Cassidy spent most of his career as a foreign correspondent and executive for the Associated Press, NBC and Radio Free Europe. His radio scripts form the bulk of the collection and include scripts written in Paris, 1945-1950, for Report on Europe and those written in the United States, 1953-1955, for Heart of the News, News of the World, World News Roundup and other programs.
Papers of a writer, newspaperman and Washington news commentator for NBC and ABC. Contains scripts, journals, speeches and recordings. Scripts and discs relate almost exclusively to Baukhage's regularly scheduled ABC program Baukhage Talking. Among the news events covered in the scripts are World War II, the 1944 political conventions, President Roosevelt's death, Truman's inauguration, the Nuremberg trials, the Cold War and the Berlin crisis.
Papers consist of material on Smith's career with both the ABC and CBS networks. CBS radio scripts pertain to his work as a World War II correspondent and to his postwar commentaries.
Collection documents the entire span of Rodman's career from his early days as a writer of short stories to a script writer for the broadcast media and a creator of television series. Best coverage of his broadcasting work is provided by files on United Nations Radio. Includes some unidentified tape recordings.
Papers of a playwright, writer and educator, primarily comprised of scripts for radio and plays. Radio materials include Cavalcade of America, Treasury Hour, Ford Theater, Theatre U.S.A. and soap operas such as Road of Life and Valiant Lady.
Dubbed tape recordings of four Fibber McGee and Molly shows, 1939, including segments with guest ZaSu Pitts and Harold Peary and of 24 Vic and Sade programs, November, 1943 and September, 1944.
Papers of a creator and writer of radio and television soap operas. Includes scripts by Phillips herself and by Radio Scripts, Inc., to which she was a consultant, including outlines, advertising copy and correspondence with listeners, viewers, networks and advertising agencies. Includes Another World, Brighter Day, The Guiding Light, Right to Happiness, Road of Life, Today's Children, Woman in White and many other daytime serials.
Sound recording of an interview conducted in April, 1980 by Dale Treleven of the Historical Society with Isabel Baumann, a Dane County, WI farm organization activist. Includes a discussion of Baumann's work with the series, We Say What We Think Club.
Papers of the author of the radio serial The Story of Mary Marlin. Includes a complete run of scripts of the original show, 1934-1945, of an Australian version, 1959-1960, character sketches, show music, outlines, publicity, commercials, reference material, scenarios, story summaries and synopses. Also includes personal and business papers and correspondence with substitute authors, advertising agencies, networks, lawyers and Procter and Gamble, the show's sponsor.
The collection is best for the years 1956-1967 and includes a wide variety of materials pertaining to his association with ABC as a newsman and vice-president of news, special events and public affairs, 1953-1967. Fragmentary early material includes a scrapbook on events covered by Daly as White House correspondent for WJSV, Washington, DC, 1938-1939, correspondence and scripts for CBS Is There (later known as You Are There), The Front Page, his coverage of the Italian theater during World War II and "The Sangamon," an Edgar Lee Masters radio play. There are no scripts dating from the later period covered but there are office memos, fan mail and publicity for Daly's television programs. Additional files pertain to ABC news administration and operation, outside speaking engagements, involvement with professional groups such as the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters and coverage of political conventions. Collection includes three disc recordings and 53 photographs.
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.
Audio recording of interviews conducted by Wingate, October 8-11, 1957, on Night Beat on WABD with Arthur V. Crowley, J. Bracken Lee, Victor Riesel, Buff Donelli, Robert Elliot Fitch, Stuart Davis, John D. Odom and Helen Sobell dealing chiefly with labor and politics.
Papers document the personal and professional activities of two radio and television personalities. Johnny Olson worked as an announcer at WTMJ, Milwaukee, 1933-1944, and WJZ, New York, 1944, before going on to emcee, with Penny as hostess, a number of radio shows, including Ladies Be Seated and Rumpus Room. Papers include scripts, correspondence, gag material and audience letters and response cards relating to Olson's radio career. The collection also includes unprocessed sound recordings of Olson's early radio program The Price ls Right.
Includes radio and television scripts, 1940s-1970, aired on NBC, CBS and BBC, including Background, Meaning of the News and Report from Washington. Also includes correspondence. Material reflects Harsch's varying assignments from coverage of the Harlan trial in Kentucky to the London Naval Conference, Germany and the Pacific theater during World War II and post-war foreign affairs responsibilities in London and Washington, D.C.
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.
Transcript of an interview with a public affairs director for WMAQ, the NBC owned station in Chicago. Topics discussed include the history of the station during its ownership by the "Chicago Daily News," CBS and NBC plus instructional and public service programming such as the University of Chicago Roundtable. Also covers other programs originating in Chicago such as Amos 'n' Andy.
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.