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.
Correspondence, memoranda, notebooks and notes, transcripts of interviews, radio and television scripts and other papers documenting Levine's career as a broadcast journalist and news commentator.
Ishmael Reed, African-American novelist, poet, and publisher, was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on February 22, 1938. Reed moved with his mother to Buffalo, New York in 1942. His mother worked in various wartime industries and Reed attended public schools, graduating in 1956. He also played violin and trombone and began writing a newspaper column on jazz for the Empire Star Weekly when he was thirteen. He enrolled as an evening student at Millard Fillmore College, the night school division of the University of Buffalo, and worked as a clerk at the Buffalo public library during the day. His writing ability was quickly recognized, and he moved into the bachelor of arts program at the University of Buffalo. He withdrew in 1960 because of a "dire shortage of funds" (Gates) and a "wide gap between social classes" (Gates). To escape "the artificial social and class distinctions that he associated with American university education," (Gates) he moved to Buffalo's Talbert Mall Project. Daily exposure to systematic poverty cycles in the projects led him to political activism in the civil rights and Black Power movements.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, Two-dimensional moving image, Text, and Still image
Formats:
Pressed LP disc, LaserDisc, Open reel tape (unknown material), Analog audiocassette, VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C), Betamax, Text document, Photographic print, and Microfilm
Extent:
Approximately 20 recordings, microfilm, 65 feet
Repository/Collector:
University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
The papers of Senator John J. Williams span the dates 1946- 1988, with the bulk of the collection representing the years of his career in the U.S. Senate, 1947-1970. The collection consists of nearly 150 linear feet of papers and also includes scrapbooks, books, photographs, and film and sound recordings. For the most part, the arrangement of the collection reflects the original filing series of Senator Williams's office. The collection is divided into 25 series which are organized under four record subgroups. The first three subgroups--Legislative Staff/Office Files, Constituent Correspondence and Cases, and Administrative and Personal Office Files--consist of series that document the work performed in office by Senator Williams and his staff. The subgroups reflect the functions of the Senator's work and include series typical of a congressional collection. Duties reflected in the Legislative Staff/Office Files include committee, legislative, and investigative work. The Constituent Correspondence and Cases subgroup includes materials created in response to the concerns and interests of constituents, and those filed on receipt of issue-related opinions from the general public. The Administrative and Personal Office Files reflect the management of the office and the Senator's personal schedule. The fourth subgroup, Personal, includes series of files and other formats that document the personal activities and opinions of Senator Williams. The material in these files supplements information about his Senate career in the first three subgroups. There is also material from the 1970s and about Mrs. Williams and Senator Williams's family life.
Content types:
Spoken word, Text, Still image, and Two-dimensional moving image
Formats:
Disc (unknown material), Edison dictation disc, Open reel tape (unknown material), Analog audiocassette, Motion picture film, VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C), Text document, and Photographic print
Extent:
149 boxes (149 linear ft.), 4 oversize boxes, 45 volumes of scrapbooks, 11 reels of microfilm, 6 films, 4 videotapes, 15 audio-recordings, 15 audiocassettes
Repository/Collector:
University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
Contains scripts for Defense for America, Gang Busters, Mr. District Attorney, and Your Defense Reporter written by Slate, 1937-1941, plus scrapbooks and papers relating to his career as a producer with CBS, 1951-1963, and sound recordings of programs he produced for the BBC.
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.
Contains papers relating to Tedesco's ownership and management of 12 radio stations, including KCHY, Cheyenne, WY and the Northern States Broadcasting Corporation of the Black Hills, Rapid City, SD.
Contains manuscripts of radio lectures on mathematics, mathematicians and the solar system by Kent and others which were aired on WTAW, College Station, TX, 1945-1950.
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
Includes scripts and other material related to the following radio programs: The Great Gildersleeve (outlines), Paging the Judge, Jackie Coogan Show, Let's Broadcast, Duffy's Tavern and other materials.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Correspondence, literary and biographical articles, radio scripts and plays, legal and financial papers, clippings, printed material, photographs and other papers.
Consists of radio, television and film scripts, correspondence, ephemera, stills and tapes. Radio scripts are identified by name and sometimes date but not the program on which they were aired.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Includes a collection of 51 transcriptions of performances from 1939-1953 of shows, including the Bing Crosby Show, Jack Benny Show, Silver Theatre, The Six Shooter, Hollywood Star Playhouse, Suspense, Jimmy Stewart Show and Screen Guild.
Correspondence, transcripts of radio broadcasts and other papers relating to Papanek's years in the U.S. as representative of the Czechoslovak government in exile during World War II and to his service in the United Nations, 1945-1948.
Odell was the host of radio and television programs, 1950s-1970s, in Des Moines and Chicago. Collection includes some newspaper clippings relating to her radio work in the 1950s.
Repository/Collector:
Iowa Women's Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries, University of Iowa
Includes some radio scripts and sound recordings of interviews with Robert W. Kenny, an influential liberal who championed the rights of several of the Hollywood 10 before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) and interviews from radio shows when Stevenson and her first husband, Philip Stevenson, were guests.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon
Democracy (1954), Short Wave—Mt. Van Hoevenberg Bobsled Ride taken by Howard Tupper—WGY, 1 p.m., Lake Placid, NY. (2/22/41), Houseboat Hanna (3/21/41), Howard Tupper—Vignettes Saratoga Harness, Etc. Golden Days of Radio—WMHT—Rise: Howard Tupper interviewed by Jack Keenan WGY—65th Anniversary, Bob Cudmore, 1987. Tup’s Memorial Service, 1986 50th Anniversary, Part 1 of 4. 50th Anniversary, Part 2 of 4. 50th Anniversary, Part 3 of 4. Feb. 15, 1972. 50th Anniversary, Part 4 of 4. Feb. 15, 1972. Dub of Remote from Hyatt House, Part 1 Dub of Remote from Hyatt House, Part 2 Dub of Remote from Hyatt House, Part 3 WGY Story, 30th Anniversary, Cut 1 and 2. WGY Story, Cut 3 and 4. WGY Story, Cut 5. Jan. 18, 1952. 1972 Recordings for Anniversary. Untitled, undated. WGY Radio Shows Hank and Tup, Last week of show Howard Tupper doing the Weather Track Talk with Tup: Entry for 1967 John Hervey Awards Tuttle on ‘Aunt Jane,’ Master 50th Anniversary Program Let’s Go Bowling Chase + Sanborn, 100th Anniversary Show, Nov. 15, 1964. 11-inch reel. Tupper Bowling, May 1960. 11-inch reel.
Papers reflect Jaskolski's involvement with the Polish Variety Hour and Voice of America. Also includes materials pertaining to many Polish American organizations in the Boston area.
Repository/Collector:
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
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.
Consists of material related to Renoir's career as a director and screenwriter and includes scripts, correspondence and photographs relating to his radio productions in the 1940s.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Contains mainly scripts for radio and television written by Seelen, including the radio programs Birds Eye Open House, The Drene Shampoo Show and Toasties Time. Seelen also wrote for the Danny Thomas Show.
Consists of book and article manuscripts (published and unpublished), galley proofs, movie scripts, unidentified radio scripts and tear sheets from magazines.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
An audition recording for the children's program Sleepy Joe meant to explain and justify the show to potential sponsors. Also includes Program #4 of These Are Americans, February 19, 1944, hosted by Chet Huntley, and a Blue Coal Minstrels program, n.d.
Recordings from various talk, interview, and telephone shows on NBC radio that Nebel conducted over his career, spanning the years 1964-69 (including Addio, Long John Nebel Phone Show, Long John Nebel All Night Show, Long John Nebel Early Hour, Straight Line, etc.). Nebel's programs dealt with a variety of topics, including religion, politics, medicine, and the theater. Many of the shows were concerned with psychic phenomena and the occult, with representative topics such as ESP, UFOs, hypnotism and spiritual healing.
Martin Bookspan interviews jazz composer and pianist John Lewis. Lewis talks about his background as a musician, about his motivation, career and life. He discusses the beginnig of the Modern Jazz Quartet, creator and musical director of which he has been since it became a permanent group in 1951, and was formally incorporated in 1952. He talks about his work with Dizzy Gillespie and other jazzmen. He also reminiscences about his years in Paris. He speaks about his music written for films such as Odds against tomorrow (1959). At the end of the interview he talks about his plans for the future. During the interview excerpts from his Three little feelings (Second movement), Vendôme, from the film Odds against tomorrow, In memoriam, and Midsömmer (1957) are played.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Contains mostly radio scripts for The Right to Happiness. Also includes radio and television scripts for Doctor Eve, Days of Our Lives, Attorney at Law, Road of Life, From These Roots, Date with Life, The Verdict is Yours, Golden Windows, The Second Mrs. Burton, Woman in White, Zenith, There Was a Woman, The Wheels of Time, The Rising Tides, Return of Constance Curtis, Four Corners, U.S.A. and the Doris Blake Show. Also includes correspondence, plot synopses, notes, research for some of the scripts and some fan mail.
Correspondence and papers and a photograph pertaining to his career as a sports columnist and as a panelist on the radio and television show, Information Please.
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.
Contains mainly scripts for radio programs written by Mies and other materials relating to his work in radio and television, 1953-1978. Includes scripts for The Gold Coast Show, Concert or Corn, Would You Believe It, and Secession Report (with scripts for commercials), which was a radio news show that reported occurrences in the 1860s and was aired during the centennial of the Civil War, 1953-1962. Also includes one audio cassette with a 1961 episode of the Secession Report and a 1955 episode of The Gold Coast Show.
Contains mainly scripts written by Whedon along with outlines and miscellaneous other materials for several radio and television programs, motion pictures and theater, 1935-1973. Includes scripts for The Great Gildersleeve and The Rudy Vallee Hour.
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.
Consists of correspondence, speeches, writings, clippings and ephemera relating to his support for Nationalist China, his interest in community affairs and his role as a regent of the University of Washington. King was an executive at KIRO, Seattle. Check with repository about any radio related information in the collection.
Repository/Collector:
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, University of Washington
Includes papers relating to WCSC-AM and WXTC-FM, Charleston, SC owned by the Rivers family which owned WCSC, Inc. Collection also includes some unidentified sound recordings that were received by WCSC as promotional items. Access to these discs may be restricted. See also the separate listing for the John Rivers Communications Museum in Charleston, SC.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A music broadcaster, music collector and community historian, Lair's papers consist of business correspondence, mail from listeners, photographs, program scripts, newsclippings, promotional material and 50 sound recordings, including National Barn Dance and Renfro Valley Barn Dance and Renfro Valley Gatherin' which Lair created while working for WLW, Cincinnati, OH and which were also heard on WHAS, Louisville, KY. In addition to appearing on the National Barn Dance, Lair was a producer and music librarian at WLS.
Contains clippings, scrapbooks, short stories, poetry and photographs that document Phillips's work as a West Virginia newspaper columnist, radio personality and station manager.
Includes biographical information, correspondence, manuscripts, scrapbooks, some sound recordings and other papers focusing primarily on Mercer's career in film, radio and theater.
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
Includes copies of Wilhelm's commentaries on Business Review, 1960-1981, plus other papers. Note: A second collection, Ross Johnston Wilhelm Photograph Series, contains photographs of Wilhelm broadcasting on WUOM.
Repository/Collector:
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Papers document Jones's primary career as an executive for several major advertising agencies, including the Leo Burnett Company, Campbell-Ewald Company, D.P. Brother and Company, Wilding Advertising and William R. Biggs/Gilmore Associates. Materials consist primarily of correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, scripts and audio visual materials that document the development of print, radio and television advertising campaigns for a wide variety of clients. The bulk of the materials appear to deal with television.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
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.
Jones owned four stations in Washington: KXKO, Aberdeen, KGMI, Bellingham, KPQ, Wenatchee and KPCB, Seattle. Subject files include materials relating to the legal case, KVOS vs Associated Press concerning broadcasters' rights to access and present news information to their audience and Jones's conflicts with bodies such the American Society of Composers, Artists and Performers regarding the management, licensing and operation of his stations. In addition to business related papers, the collection contains a group of radio and oral history interviews that Jones and others recorded. Also includes a sound recording of KGMI's 40th anniversary show, November 15, 1967.
Repository/Collector:
Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Washington University
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
Consists of manuscripts, correspondence and reviews of movies, television and radio programs and theater productions, most relating to Symons's work in the field of crime literature.
Repository/Collector:
University of Delaware Library, Special Collections, University of Delaware
Contains transcripts of radio broadcasts, 1941-1945, and other papers relating to his trips to China and transcripts of interviews with Chinese leaders.
Repository/Collector:
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
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.
Correspondence, diaries, drafts and galleys of playscripts for radio, screen and stage, poems, songs and fiction and nonfiction books and other papers relating chiefly to Kantor's literary career.
Mostly recordings of music/talk related programs but including important news stories. Also have major studio sarchives of WABC-AM in New York City, WNEW-AM New York City, and others
Papers documenting the history and prograniming of KBPS, Portland, OR. Includes correspondence, reports, financial documents, scripts, speeches and sound recordings.
Repository/Collector:
National Public Broadcasting Archives, University of Maryland
Consists of correspondence, minutes, annual reports, financial records, grant files, newsletters and other papers. As of 2005, collection may only be partially processed.
Repository/Collector:
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, University of Washington
Mona Kent (1909-1990) was a script writer for both radio and television, having written hundreds of scripts for the radio serial "Portia Faces Life" and contributing scripts to TV's "Captain Video" series. The collection primarily documents Kent's work on the radio soap "Portia Faces Life" from 1940 to 1956.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
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.
Consists of correspondence, speeches, writings by Kerby and printed materials relating to his editorship of "Frontier" magazine. Also includes manuscripts of speeches, n.d., and broadcasts on KPFK, Los Angeles.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Records of the Washington State University campus station KFAE which became KWSU. Includes program logs and some audio recordings. Records are located in three separate collections. Additional photos of KWSU are in the separate Hutchinson Studio Photographs Collection.
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University
Contains newspaper clippings, licenses and photographs pertaining to the operation of KFAU, Boise High School, Boise, ID. (See also the Gladdon W. Hull Collection for additional clippings related to KFAU.)
Repository/Collector:
Idaho State Historical Society, Historical Library
Contains correspondence, several scrapbooks, newspaper clippings and photographs pertaining to KIDO and its operations. See also a separate KIDO Correspondence, 1942-1943, Collection that contains letters regarding acquisition of equipment and personnel changes under wartime regulations and a collection that includes an ad for the "Turkey A Day" contest sponsored by the station, 1954-1955.
Repository/Collector:
Idaho State Historical Society, Historical Library
Martin Bookspan interviews American contemporary classical music composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher Leon Kirchner. Kirchner talks about both of his careers: as a teacher and as a composer; about his students; about the performers he used to work with such as violinists Michael Spivakowsky and Isaac Stern; and about electronic tape music. The composer speaks about music by Arnold Schoenberg that influenced him, and he has composed a large quantity of music which is stylistically tied to the works of Schoenberg. He talks about his opera Lily (based on Saul Bellow's Henderson, the Rain King). The composer also discusses each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: Music for orchestra (1970), Sonata concertante (for violin and piano, first movement) (1952), Quartet no. 3 (for strings and electronic tape).
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Contains materials relating to Klee's writing career and includes mainly scripts along with story lines and research notes for Backstage Wife, Chaplain Jim, U.S.A. (completed for Hummert Radio Features during World War II), The Chase, The Clock, The Fat Man, Front Page Farrell, Mr. & Mrs. North, Mr. Chameleon, Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons and Valiant Lady. Also includes television and movie scripts.
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.
Komichak worked as engineer and assistant manager for WPIT-AM and FM, Pittsburgh, PA and was director of Ukrainian radio programming. Papers are in Ukranian and English.
Repository/Collector:
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Consists of manuscripts, teaching, research and personal materials, theater programs, memorabilia, correspondence, clippings, photocopies, photographs, reel-to-reel tape recordings, including some of his productions for KPFK, n.d., magazines, posters and ephemera. Online finding aid does not include details of the KPFK productions.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Contains correspondence, program scripts, Mary Avery's program, Washington Archives, and other papers. Scripts cover such items as agricultural extension broadcasts, musical and literary programs, dramatic productions and school broadcasts.
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University
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.
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.