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...find its first general manager, British Broadcasting Co. Ltd. inserted a want ad in a technical paper. That was in 1922 and John Charles Walsham Reith answered the ad, got the job. Since then the company has become The British Broadcasting Corp., has grown to overwhelming imperial importance. Director-General Reith got a knighthood and now a new $50,000 post as director of Imperial Airways...
...radio voice, sole dispenser of programs to some 8,500,000 licensed radio sets in the British Isles, broadcaster of short-wave service to the distant outposts of Empire, operator of the world's first schedule of television broadcasts for public entertainment. Therefore, last month when Sir John Reith's new appointment left BBC without a director-general, the choice of his successor was a matter of prime public interest. Britishers had come to believe that dour, resourceful Sir John was the BBC. For he had never hesitated to take on his own broad, stooped Scottish shoulders direct...
...ruck of possible candidates discussed by the London press, BBC's board of governors last week chose another Scot, Frederick Wolff Ogilvie, to succeed Scot Reith. Dark-horse candidate for the $37,500 job, Professor Ogilvie is a celebrated economist. The board wanted a thoroughgoing educator, and the new 45-year-old D. G. fills the bill perfectly. He taught at Oxford and Edinburgh before becoming president and vice-chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast...
When Vice-Chancellor Ogilvie accepted the BBC appointment, he told the press: "I am not director-general until October and I hope to be in cold storage until then." Jumping to the conclusion that this meant that he would continue the Reith tradition of aloof frigidity, the Daily Mail snapped: ''We do not want any more Sphinxes at Broadcasting House. The BBC is an organization paid for and designed for the ordinary listener and is not an Egyptian desert...
...this sort of rule at B.B.C., Sir John's salary has been about $35,000 annually. As director of Imperial Airways, he will get $50,000. To Imperial, organization under Sir John Reith may well mean the installation top-to-bottom of the rigid quarter-deck punctilio he commanded at B.B.C. As if in anticipation of Sir John's coming, the company last week had in strict training a corps of "flight clerks" for the jobs stewardesses do on U. S. airlines. In trim-cut uniforms they must work 18 hours a day for $25-$30 a week...