Word: reed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stephen Power Parish, 62, moved up from president of Reed Roller Bit Co. to board chairman. A onetime roughneck in the Texas oilfields and a brother of William S. Parish, president of Standard Oil (N.J.) from 1937-42, Steve Parish took over Reed in 1925 when it had some 80 workers and $1,000,000 in assets. He built the company into the world's second largest oil-tool concern (first: Hughes Tool Co.), with assets of $24 million and worldwide markets for its rock bits, rotary joints, drill collars and coring equipment. R. G. Hamaker, formerly vice president...
When to Duck. Radio Actor Donn Reed, who originated the show, spends his nights riding a Culver City, Calif, prowl car to make on-the-spot recordings of police investigations, arrests and interrogations. The voices used are those of the people actually involved. In getting his material, Reed has been slugged, beaten with handcuffs, shot at. Says he: "It's important to know just when to duck...
Usually, the 30-minute show covers two contrasting cases. Says Reed: "For example, we'll have a razor fight, fast and bloody-a major case. Then there'll be one about a little boy who steals newspapers, a quiet thing." But this week Reed devoted his entire show to the capture of a teen-age burglar. Hearing that a prowler had been spotted in a gas station, Reed and Police Sergeant Ron Perkins raced to the spot and caught the thief in action. Reed was showered with glass as the boy made a break for it through...
...Alike. Using a small, 14-lb. recorder sensitive enough to handle sounds ranging from a footfall to a shotgun blast, Reed has been riding with the Culver City police for nearly a year. Some nights he gets nothing, on others, enough material for three shows...
Individual skippers for the Crimson will be Tim Brown, Fred Hoppin, Jim Nathanson, and Phil Tierney. Art Gossard with John Reed, and Nick Baker with A. C. Langworthy, will compete as co-skippers...