Reminiscences concerning radio broadcasting during World War II by a chief of the Radio Branch of the War Department's Public Relations Bureau, 1941-1945. The recollections encompass mobilization, the Armed Forces Radio Service and a review of programs produced by the commercial networks under army auspices.
The bulk of the collection consists of annotated scripts for Edward P. Morgan and the News. Also includes opening and closing messages which reflect the views of the AFL-CIO, Morgan's sponsor, correspondence and over 100 recordings.
Recording of We Take You Back, March 13, 1958. The recording consists of excerpts from commentators' reports made from around the world on outstanding news events, ca. 1938-ca. 1945, with commentaries by Robert Trout and Murrow.
Papers of an author, journalist and radio broadcaster who specialized in coverage of Latin American affairs. The bulk of the collection consists of radio scripts and writings, many in draft form, for magazines and newspapers. The radio scripts pertain to Three Star Extra, The Other Americas, Paths to Prosperity and news broadcasts.
Papers of an educator, writer, and founder-director of the Wisconsin Idea Theatre of the University of Wisconsin. The processed portion of the collection consists entirely of plays based on Wisconsin history and folklore which were written or narrated by Gard for the Wisconsin College of the Air and the Wisconsin Idea Radio Theatre, two series broadcast by WHA. One College of the Air production, "Lost Lady Elgin," is available on tape.
Includes scripts and drafts for The Crime Cases of Warden Lawes, Big Town and Big Story on radio, scripts for some television programs and other papers.
Papers of a journalist and writer for radio, television and theater. Majority of collection consists of scripts for radio and television. Among the best represented radio series are Best Plays, Doctor Six Gun, Five Star Matinee, Hollywood Love Story, The Marriage, My Secret Story, NBC Theatre, NBC University Theatre, Nick Carter, Woman in Love, and X Minus One.
Collection documents Tufty's newspaper career and her work in radio and television broadcasting with her own programs as well as appearances as a guest on numerous other programs and activities in several professional organizations, including the American Women in Radio and Television, the American Newspaper Women's Club and the Women's National Press Club. Contains scripts of Headlines From Washington, Tufty Topics, Panning the Press, Home and others. Also includes tape and disc recordings of her programs and other broadcasts plus personal reminiscences, biographical interviews and memorabilia.
Papers of a foreign correspondent, news analyst, author and AFL-CIO radio coordinator consisting chiefly of books, articles, World War II communiques, plays, scripts for films and radio programs, speeches and over 700 tapes. Radio programs represented in the collection include John Vandercook and the News, Labor Answers Your Questions, Labor Reports to the Nation, Washington Reports to the Nation and As We See It. Also includes extensive script files for programs broadcast by the CBS West Coast Network and KMOX, St. Louis. Papers involving listener mail from the late 1940s are noteworthy for their concern with alleged communist influence in California.
Papers of a "Milwaukee Journal" reporter, ABC news broadcaster, and government official. Includes scripts for Fleming's appearances on Edward P. Morgan and the News. Of particular interest are files on Fleming's involvement with the National Association of Broadcasters and the Radio Television News Directors Association dealing with freedom of the press issues.
Papers,including pamphlets, bulletins and newsletters, publicity and promotional materials, programs, directories, reports and studies and related material relating to the history of WTAM-AM and WTAM-FM, an NBC-owned stations in Cleveland, OH. See the catalog entry for information on possible additional materials and shelf locations.
Papers of an attorney, career government employee and former FCC member and chairman. Includes speeches, writings, correspondence, biographical clippings and subject files relating to equal time and political broadcasting, the fairness doctrine, UHF/VHF allocations, the Legislative Oversight Subcommittee's investigations of the FCC during the 1950s and other topics.
Papers of the Foundation's four FM stations: KPFA, Berkeley, CA, KPFK, Los Angeles, CA, WBAI, New York City and KPFT, Houston, TX. Coverage is best for programming and operations of the individual stations. The files include a fairly comprehensive collection of program guides for KPFA, KPFK and WBAI and operational material chiefly for KPFA and KPFK. Although the remainder of the collection pertains to Pacifica in general, there is little documentation on overall policymaking. One box contains correspondence, memos, a printed history, personnel lists, financial information, program and station guidelines, newsletters, minutes of national meetings and general information on affiliates and tape sales. Another half box concerns investigations of Pacifica by the U.S. Senate and the FCC over alleged communist infiltration and the use of obscenity on the air.
Fragmentary personal and professional papers of a New York publicist and journalist. Contains correspondence, resumes, press releases, drafts of public relations projects, newspaper clippings about his career, including press releases for NBC, 1951-1952, and station and public relations records for WNEW, 1959-1962.
Papers of a journalist, actor, radio program director and World War II army intelligence officer, including a printed version of his army diary and biographical information.
Repository/Collector:
Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Papers of a Washington, DC, correspondent for NBC and public relations director for the Gulf Oil Corporation. News scripts, 1961-1975, comprise the majority of the collection. Contents include scripts for News on the Hour, Monitor, Today in Washington, and World News Roundup plus scripts for Voice of America and television.
Scripts for radio dramas written, directed or produced by a cantor at Temple Beth-El in Cedarhurst, NY together with collected files on other religious broadcasts sponsored by various Jewish organizations such as the Jewish Theological Seminary and the American Zionist Council. Most extensively documented is The Eternal Light on which Segal was frequently featured as cantor.
Papers of a writer, producer and director of numerous television comedies. Catalog listing notes that the collection includes "scripts for radio programs" but only identifies the Beulah Show. Other papers may only deal with television. Check with repository for more information.
Papers of an early radio performer who was most famous for his composition "It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo." The collection consists of biographical material and microfilmed scrapbooks, fan mail, miscellaneous printed matter and recordings, including one with Milton Berle.
Papers of the "Dean of American Radio Commentators" who introduced editorial analysis to radio news broadcasting. The bulk of the collection is made up of correspondence, scripts and recordings but there are also business and professional papers, book and article manuscripts, notes and scrapbooks. Radio scripts comprise a virtually complete record of his prepared broadcasts for Kaltenborn Edits the News and for a number of other series and specials. Supplementing the papers are more than 500 sound recordings of his regularly scheduled news broadcasts, chiefly 1940-1948, and other programs in which he was a participant. Correspondence includes Kaltenborn's involvement with the Association of Radio Television News Analysts, the Broadcast Pioneers, the Overseas Press Club, the Radio-Television Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Kaltenborn Foundation.
Papers, primarily comprised of musical scores and parts, of a composer, arranger and conductor for radio and television and vice-president in charge of music for ABC. Also includes non radio sound recordings.
Papers of a Washington, DC, cultural impresario consisting chiefly of scripts for People and Events in the World of Music, a cultural affairs program aired by WGMS. Also includes correspondence and other papers.
Papers of an NBC broadcasting executive who served as vice-president in charge of its stations, planning and development and integrated services departments. Correspondence, 1926-1962, chiefly concerns Broadcast Pioneers, the National Association of Broadcasters, the "Chicago Daily News" and WMAQ. The limited NBC material is best for the inception of television during the late 1940s. Also includes speeches and articles, clippings, memorabilia, a transcript of an oral history interview and a number of NBC reports, including some by Hedges. Material pertaining to Broadcast Pioneers includes minutes, printed matter, issues of the group's in-house organ and material on its history project. Of special interest is Hedges's interview with John F. Royal and the inventories of the project's collection. Information on the NAB, of which Hedges was a founding member, includes a constitution and by-laws, a proposed code of fair competition, convention programs and a handbook. Photographs document a group of journalists, including Hedges, on Broadcasters' Mission to Europe, 1945.
Papers of an NBC news commentator and newspaper journalist, consisting chiefly of material for his program Three Star Extra which was sponsored by the Sun Oil Company. Includes microfilmed scripts largely dating from January, 1956-May 26, 1965 and some editorials. For the period prior to 1955 the collection includes only a few scattered scripts but over 100 sound recordings. Also includes a small quantity of documentation relating to his broadcasting career with ABC and WOL.
Contains correspondence, photographs, press clippings, programs and ephemera documenting the career of the singer/pianist Hildegarde Loretta Sell known professionally as "The Incomparable Hildegarde."
Repository/Collector:
Raynor Memorial Libraries, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
The Radio files contain scripts from Hinken's early career in radio, including The Grouch Club and The Magnificent Montague as well as extensive scripts and production information for the Fred Allen Show for which Hinken was head writer for seven years and the Milton Berle Show with which he was associated, 1946-1949. Also includes a sound recording of the November 25, 1945 performance of the Berle show. Bulk of collection pertains to Hinken's work in television.
Forty eight transcription discs of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin broadcasts, including Wisconsin Cavalcade, broadcast by WKOW, WHA, WIBA and other stations.
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.
Preliminary report on public service broadcasting by William Costello prepared for the Association of Radio Television News Analysts, 1957, together with a commentary on the same subject by news analyst Howe, then president of ARTNA.
Papers of Nastal, a pioneer Milwaukee Polish-language radio broadcaster, and of his son, Stanley H., who succeeded him in 1947. The collection documents ethnic programming from the 1930s through the 1950s and includes biographical information, a copy of Nastal's reminiscences of service with Polish Volunteer Forces of the Canadian Army during World War I, advertising contracts, program logs and scripts. The logs, in English, are from Our Polish Hour, 1947-1954. The scripts, in Polish, are from Theater of the Air and daily serialized sketches. Also contains eleven tape recordings of broadcasts, primarily Our Polish Hour, ca. 1942-1947.
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.
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.
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.
A radio and television announcer, talk radio host and newspaper columnist best known for his association with WSAU and WSAU-TV, Wausau, WI. Collection consists of examples of his writings and scripts, clippings about his career and some listener mail. Audio recordings include examples of 55 Feedback, early radio broadcasts, news, national and local musical performances and 1940 interviews with players for the Green Bay Packers recorded at WTAQ.
Papers of a Milwaukee pioneer in the field of broadcast journalism, including material relating to WTMJ and national and state organizations such as the National Association of Radio News Directors and the Radio Television News Directors Association.
Repository/Collector:
Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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.
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.
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.