Word: morganization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Putting the show on the road means a succession of twelve-hour days for the staff of 39 under Senior Editor Al Morgan. Last month Morgan and a small crew dug in at Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel to prepare the way for the flood of actors, floor men, engineers and assistant directors. Extra microphones, zoomar lenses, commercial props and TV slides were shipped down from Manhattan. One camera was even spotted atop the Washington monument for a bird's-eye view of the capital. Hostess Francis had to hop to rehearsal in Washington, back to New York...
...when Arlene and the cameras were set to show the old Supreme Court chamber at 11:47, the Homemakers discovered at 10 o'clock that an unscheduled hearing was in session, TV excluded. Not until 11:35 did the hearing begin to break up. At 11:42 Editor Morgan made the decision to go ahead. The spot went on the air on time...
...pull a camera off the street after the show got under way. A seven-story crane was moved into place to hoist a "cup" for relaying the TV signal out of the valley-like terrain of Georgetown. Just 45 minutes before show time, the Fire Department refused to let Morgan pull the switches on the TV equipment because it might overload the electrical circuits. Somebody talked the fire inspectors into going away while the technicians figured out an answer; when the inspectors came back, the show was over...
Monte Lemann '03, William C. Coleman '05, and Morgan D. Wheelock '31 were elected vice-presidents. Howard S. Warren '32 will remain as treasurer, and Peter E. Pratt '40 as secretary...
Died. Brigadier General John Hartman Morgan, 79, British lawyer and top authority on constitutional law; at Wootton Bassett, England. General Morgan was legal adviser to the American War Crimes Commission at Nürnberg from 1947 to 1949, advised the prosecution in the postwar treason trial of Nazi Broadcaster William ("Lord Haw Haw") Joyce, which led to Joyce's hanging...