Included are Sanger's personal diaries (1936-1967) relating to WQXR. Also included is a complete bound file of the WQXR PROGRAM GUIDE (June 1936-December 1963) containing a record of the broadcasting of classical music in New York City, the daily schedule, and essays on composers, music festivals, individual compositions and music in general by such writers as Irwin Edman, Will Durant, M. Lincoln Schuster, Edward Johnson, John Barbirolli, as well as by Sanger and his co-founder, John V. L. Hogan. There are also four tape recordings of radio broadcast interviews with Mr. Sanger aired in 1973.
Extent:
3 linear ft. ( 8 boxes)
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, notes, reports, legal briefs and other documents, books, clippings and other printed materials dealing with Fly's professional activities and relationships in all phases of his career. Fly was chairman of the FCC, 1939-1944, and a frequent lecturer about radio, television and freedom of speech.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Includes 501 scripts for the Claudia series plus sound recordings of some of the programs, scrapbook clippings and an audio tape interview of Franken (with typescript transcripts) conducted by her grandnephew, David Korr, in October, 1977.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
William "Billy" Friedberg (1916-1965) is best remembered as a television comedy writer, although he also wrote plays, musicals, variety reviews, short stories, and radio programs. Among his best-known works are episodes of "Car 54, Where Are You?", "As Time Goes By", and "The Phil Silvers Show". Friedberg's work represented in this collection spans many genres, including comedy review sketches, TV dramas, short stories, plays, and musicals.
Extent:
5.7 linear feet
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Consists of correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, notes, photographs and printed materials relating to his research, writing and teaching. Also includes correspondence concerning his syndicated radio talks.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Letters about the formation of the Committee on Award of the Marconi Memorial Medal. The medal was to have been awarded annually for contributions to radio and David Sarnoff had been chosen as the first recipient but the Committee was dissolved as a result of a disagreement with the policies of the Italian government and the medal was never awarded.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Prose manuscripts, related correspondence, notes, printed material, and audio tapes of Thomson. Included are notes and drafts of many of Thomson's early articles, and numerous manuscripts of columns published in the HERALD TRIBUNE in the 1940s. Thomson's special interests reflected in these writings are modern music, American hymns, and the performance of music in Europe. Also, 125 reels of tapes of Thomson's program on radio station WNCN (New York), 1969-1970.
Formats:
Open reel tape (unknown material)
Extent:
17 boxes, 1 oversize folder, 125 audio tape reels
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
The collection consists of 5 folders of mimeographs of Ralph W. Sockman's addresses from the National Broadcasting Company's (NBC) radio program the National radio pulpit.
Extent:
0.25 linear feet
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library