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Alfred Wallenstein, sometime concert cellist, has been musical director of Newark, N. J.'s station WOR (Mutual network) for five years. Long ago he disabused the station's management of their theory that Bach was too high-brow for their listeners; long ago he began putting new compositions on the air. Last week Director Wallenstein for the 300th time gave a work its radio debut...
Every early-rising radio tuner in Greater New York and environs has certainly heard John B. (for Bradley) Gambling some morning or other. With his Musical Clock, his all-in-fun setting-up exercises, cheerio music, wheezy gags, weather information and news scraps, John B. Gambling has been a WOR fixture for 15 years. Once he was a British seaman on a World War I mine sweeper. He got his job at WOR as a technician in 1925 at $30 a week. Now he says he makes $25,000 a year at his early-bird program, has had a parade...
...Most suitably labeled of Superman's stations is WHAM, Rochester, N. Y. Others: WOR, Manhattan; WBZ, Boston; WCAU, Philadelphia; WTIC, Hartford; WJAR, Providence; WFBL, Syracuse; WGR, Buffalo; WGY, Schenectady; WGBI, Scranton; WBZ A, Springfield, Mass...
Last week Editor Williams began airing his stuff Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays over Manhattan's WOR for New York Philco dealers. First time up, Inside Stuffer Williams aired the "plan Gamelin," under which "the major amphitheatre of war is to be far removed from the Western Front." He masterminded a possible Italian tie-up with the Allies, with a thrust at the Russian oil fields at Baku by Weygand's French, British and possibly Turkish Army, from Syria. Quick action was being urged, said he. because "the present situation in the unpredictable Balkans, and particularly in Rumania, will...