Includes speeches and articles written by Bain, American Women in Radio and Television reports and convention proceedings, TV show ratings and movie reviews and miscellaneous other articles. Bain worked as a music librarian for KFI-KECA in Los Angeles in 1941 and as a traffic director for WCFL.
Repository/Collector:
Stapleton Library, Special Collections & University Archives
Belohlavek founded the Slovak Radio Circle aired on WJBK and later WJLB in Detroit, MI in the 1940s and hosted a half hour program sponsored by the General Stefanik Society. Papers contain a limited amount of material on the Slovak Radio Circle, including meeting minutes, membership lists, reports and correspondence. Included is a 1947 letter informing the of the cancellation of programs such as theirs that bought time from the station and then sold portions of it to individual advertisers. There are also angry letters and a petition denouncing the discontinuance of foreign language programming by the Circle's subsequent broadcasting station, WJLB, in 1948. Approximately 90% of the collection is in Slovak with the majority of documents in English being newsclippings.
Recordings of Philadelphia Orchestra concerts broadcast by the Philadelphia radio station WFLN, including interviews recorded as concert intermission features. 196-1977.
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription) and VHS (audio)
Extent:
53 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts
Nine original scripts for the series in various drafts. The scripts belonged to the real-life criminologist Dr. Carleton Simon who was a character in the episodes and who sometimes also played the part in the actual broadcast. Also includes a letter from the show's producer requesting Simon's permission to use his name.
Repository/Collector:
Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center