Contains photographs, books, theater programs, clippings, correspondence, audio and videotapes and memorabilia covering Fender's various careers. Includes correspondence from well-known entertainers, including Florenz Ziegfeld, Eddie Cantor and Max Morath, some 500 photographs of Fender with celebrities he interviewed for KXOK and KMOX and an autograph book with hundreds of signatures from celebrities. Fender hosted an interview show on KXOX and KMOK from 1947 to the 1970s.
Contains story scripts for most of the 15 minute programs which were for children plus sample opening and closing scripts for each of the 52 programs, buttons and blank certificates of membership and possibly some unprocessed 16" transcription discs.
Papers cover Hyland's early career in sales in radio and later as general manager of KMOX, St. Louis. Contains some mostly unspecified recordings, 1958-1964, including "Pass The Biscuits, Mirandi," with the Spike Jones Combo broadcast September 9, 1963.
Repository/Collector:
Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Includes only articles about the program in "The Pentecostal Evangel" and a few historical articles about the program and possibly some unprocessed 16" transcription discs. Featured on the 15 minute program which received the "Best All-around Religion Broadcast" from the National Religious Broadcasters in 1947 were E.S. Williams and Wesley R. Steelberg.
Rodel was a staff announcer and newsman at KSD, 1947-1975. Collection includes five recordings of his auditions, ca. 1947, and additional post-1960 radio and television material.
Papers deal primarily with Pulitzer's editorship of the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" and cover nearly every aspect of the operation and production of the newspaper, including radio advertising, 1925-1927.
Repository/Collector:
Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Contains correspondence, minutes and other materials relating to Mattson' s activities with the United Automobile Workers, including the union's radio stations.
Repository/Collector:
Olin Library, Department of Special Collections, Washington University
Contains 449 transcription discs featuring local St. Louis productions and CBS network feed programming, including CBS News Analysis, Columbia Country Journal, Hedda Hopper's Hollywood, Marvels Cigarettes-Viewing the News, News of Europe, People's Platform, Goldbergs and World Today.
Interviews with theSoldan High School basketball team taped before a game, 1940. Includes Harry Caray's broadcast on the sale of the St. Louis Cardinals, 1947.
Includes letters of congratulations, proclamations, photographs and biographical information of the country music star who had a program on KMOX from 1929 to early 1950s and later on other St. Louis stations.
Includes extensive correspondence, brochures, sermon scripts, choir recordings, choir tour itineraries and 16" transcription discs. The first year's programs featuring C.M. Ward and Dan Betzer are available on CD. Reel-to-reel tapes of the broadcasts are also available.