Contains recordings of programs, 1930s-1940s, including Barnyard Follies, newscasts, interviews, sports and other programming with station favorites such as France Laux, Jack Buck, Harry Caray, Bob Hardy, Rex Davis, John McCormick, Jack Camey, Anne Keefe and others. Also includes publications, reports, advertisements, clippings and a variety of other material.
Contains correspondence, minutes, notes, radio and television transcripts, reports, clippings, publications and other materials relating to the establishment and promotion of UAW stations WCUO, Cleveland, OH and WDET, Detroit, MI, 1948-1952. Correspondents include Morris Novick, an AFL-CIO radio consultant.
Repository/Collector:
Olin Library, Department of Special Collections, Washington University
Recording of Just for Women on WEW, January 22, 1953, with interview of Dr. Lillian Gilbreth, efficiency engineer and author of "Cheaper By the Dozen" on "Managing Minutes in Your Kitchen." Also interviews with Betty Furness, CBS television personality and home economist Nancy Haven as well as other programs, 1955-1956.
Includes 30 photographs showing Farrell and guests on his television show and videocassette interviews of celebrities. Collection may not have material on Farrell's earlier career in radio in the mid-1950s on KWK, WIL, KSD and KMOX.