Magidoff, Robert

A graduate of New York City schools and the University of Wisconsin. Has had 10 years of news-gathering experience in Russia, and is thoroughly familiar with the political, military, and economic currents in the Soviet Union. Remained in Russia throughout the war, being evacuated to Kuibishev with other correspondents when the Government moved there temporarily from Moscow to escape the German threat to the Soviet capital. Assisted in covering the 1947 Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in Moscow, where he is currently stationed. McAndrew, William R.

Native of Washington, D. C., and graduate of Catholic University. Worked as reporter for Washington Herald during college and after graduation joined Washington bureau of United Press. Covered Senate and later wrote radio report for UP Washington office. Joined NBC in Washington as news editor in 1936, handled many special-event broadcasts between 1936 and 1940, including the visit of King and Queen of England, inaugurations, and national political conventions. Later served as executive news editor of Broadcasting Magazine, and as Chief of the Information Section of the Board of Economic Warfare. Returned to NBC in January 1943 as Washington director of news and special events, and recently was made assistant to Frank M. Russell, NBC vice president in charge of Washington office.

McCall, Francis C., manager of operations, news, and special events

A native of San Antonio, Tex., Francis C. McCall attended the University of Texas at Austin and soon after graduation began his newspaper career as a reporter for the United Press. He later became assistant bureau manager for the Australian Associated Press in New York, and, at the time he joined the National Broadcasting Co., was an editor in the New York bureau of the Chicago Tribune. Joining NBC in 1937, McCall was made a writer in the news and special events department, and in 1940 was given the post of news editor. The next year he was made manager of the news and special events department.

During the war McCall was assigned first to the European and later to the Pacific theater of operations to supervise NBC's coverage of events in those areas. Early in 1944, he went to London to arrange operational coverage of the invasion of France. He returned to the United States shortly after the invasion, and after a brief rest was assigned to Honolulu to supervise NBC's expansion of coverage in the Pacific theater.

From Honolulu, McCall was reassigned to San Francisco to organize and supervise the network's coverage of the San Francisco United Nations Conference in the spring of 1945. At San Francisco he was in charge of the large staff of NBC reporters and commentators gathered in the city for the historic meetings. With the completion of the Conference, McCall returned to the network's news headquarters in New York, where he supervised operations during the tense hours of VE- and VJ-days. Since the war's end, he has remained in New York, where he has been in charge of operations for all the big postwar stories. McCormick, Robert

A native of Danville, Ky., he was a student at George Washington University, Washington, D. C., when he jointed the Washington News as copy boy and soon became a reporter. Then followed stints as assistant city editor, news editor, and columnist, building a reputation as an expert Capital columnist and political reporter. Since Pearl Harbor he has followed, first, the expanding defense program, and then the evolution of the country's war machine. A contributor to Collier's, his articles include studies of Admiral King, the FBI, and the Seabees, and many Wing Talk features. He is heard from Washington.

Meyers, Joseph O.

Joseph O. Meyers was born in Henry, Ill., May 14, 1903. He graduated from the University of Illinois, class of '26, with a bachelor or arts degree and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. While at college he was news editor of the Daily Illini, the only morning daily in the community of Urbana, Ill. In 1926 he entered newspaper work as a reporter for the Detroit News. After a little more than a year, he left Detroit ot join the St. Paul Daily News, St. Paul, Minn., where he became successively reporter, special assignments man, assistant city editor, city editor, and finally Sunday editor and columnist. While still on the Daily News, he was employed by station KSTP, St. Paul, to work out plans for one of the first radio station news bureaus. During the following 5 years, the

department grew from one employing 2 men to an 11-man bureau handling 66 news programs weekly, in addition to two 15-minute and one half-hour special events programs. Meyers directed the entire activity of the department during this time. In 1942 he left KSTP to join the NBC news and special events staff in New York as a writer and in 1943 became daytime news supervisor. In 1944, 1 month before D-day, he was appointed assistant manager of news and special events, in which capacity he handled coordination of the War Department's program, the Army Hour, and of all overseas broadcasts during the period from D-day to VJ-day. He later received a War Department citation for his work on the Army Hour. In October 1945 he became assistant to the director of news and special events, and subsequently assistant to the vice president in charge of news and international relations.

Mueller, Merrill

Veteran newsman and head of Newsweek's London Bureau before joining NBC in time to cover the north African campaign, he has the distinction of being World War II's "most blitzed" correspondent. He went through 700 air raids in London, and 72 in Malta, and countless others in north Africa. During a raid on Medenine, Tunisia, Mueller received an ear injury, and was awarded the Order of the Purple Heart on June 18, 1943. Pearl Harbor found "Red" Mueller aboard a British destroyer bound for Gibraltar. He went on to Malta and the Middle East and joined the British in their sweep across Libya. He got out of Singapore shortly before the Japs, and retreated to Australia by a tortuous, danger-filled route. He has since roamed the South Pacific, before moving up to cover the north African campaign, and has interviewed General MacArthur. He covered the Spanish Republican retreat into France; the Finnish-Russian outbreaks from North Helsinki, and was for a short time on the French front. Did the first series of NBC broadcasts from Paris with Paul Archinard following the outbreak of war. Left Paris the night before the Germans entered the city, covered the French retreat to Bordeaux, scooped the surrender with John MacVane and evacuated to England, covering the Channel front. He correctly predicted the outbreak of the Russo-German war and was one of the few to credit the Russians with the ability and power to overcome the German invasion. He flew with the RAF on a mission to Norway late in 1940 covering the air battle of the Atlantic. Was with American troops during invasion of Pantelleria and Sicily. Covered the early stages of the Italian campaign, and the European campaign, and the European campaign from D-day to shortly after the Battle of the Bulge (which he correctly predicted a week in advance). Was the only American radio correspondent attached to General Eisenhower's headquarters. After the Bulge, went to the Pacific, covered the fighting in the Philippines, Borneo, and Okinawa, was with the first party of correspondents into Tokyo, and broadcast the Japanese surrender aboard the Missouri. Returned to England in December 1945, and is now manager of the NBC London bureau.

Parr, William Grant

Was born in Palacios, Tex., November 15, 1913. Moved to Minden, Nebr. in 1916, where he went through grade and high school. Attended NebraskaWesleyan University for 2 years, received his Bachelor of Arts and certificate in journalism for another 2 years at Nebraska University. Worked for 3 years as reporter and night city editor on the Nebraska State Journal, Lincoln, Nebr., while still in college. Came to New York in 1938 and received his master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1939. Then traveled throughout Europe, winding up in Cairo, Egypt. There he taught journalism, English, and history in the American University and contributed to various American newspapers and magazines. Appointed NBC Cairo correspondent in 1940, Parr accompanied the British Eighth Army as they rolled the Nazis back across north Africa and joined the American forces. He was the first to tell the world of the fall of Tunis. Later he followed American troops into Rome in the Italian campaign and subsequently covered special assignments in Greece and Beirut, Syria. He returned to the United States in October 1945. Now stationed in New York.

Peterson, Elmer W.

A veteran correspondent and radio commentator. For 10 years was with the Associated Press abroad. He was Chief of Bureau for the AP in charge of southeast Europe, then Chief of Bureau for Scandinavia, covering Germany's invasion of Denmark and Norway. From Warsaw, where he held a similar

post, he covered Germany's invasion of Poland, riots in Palestine and numerous upheavals in the Balkans. In addition, Peterson served for a year in the Far East and was the first American correspondent to visit the Japanese Army in action in China, flying over the battlefields. In 1936 and 1937 he covered the Spanish Civil War from its beginning. He also served in England and spent a year in Germany studying the development of Hitlerism. Before joining NBC in 1942, Peterson broadcast a foreign affairs radio commentary in Minneapolis, and served as an adviser on Scandinavian matters to the Office of War Information. His first NBC assignment was London, where he broadcast regularly for more than a year on the political and military preparations centered 'in Great Britain for the conquest of Hitler Europe. During his stay in London, Peterson made a month's tour of neutral Sweden, with a small group of selected journalists from the United States, at the invitation of the Swedish Government. Shortly afterward he returned to the United States to resume his domestic reporting and commentaries, first from New York and then from San Francisco, where he is currently stationed.

Ray, William

William Ray was born in Louisville, Ky., March 24, 1908. He attended high school in Louisville and served as sports correspondent for the Louisville Post during his high school years. At the University of Louisville he edited the college paper, at the same time holding a full-time job as a reporter for the Louisvile Courier-Journal. In his senior year he left Louisville to study law at Chicago University. While in Chicago he worked as a reporter for the Chicago Post. After graduation, he returned to Louisville as a free-lance publicity man, but remained there for only a short time, returning to Chicago in 1932 to join the publicity staff of the Chicago World's Fair. In 1933 he joined the NBC Chicago press department, and in 1937 was appointed manager of the department. In 1943 he became manager of the Chicago news and special events department. Under him, the department was the first to institute a daily wire-recorded spot news service, a feature he inaugurated in cooperation with the Chicago Herald-American. Ray helped organize and became first president of the Chicago Radio Correspondents Club and is currently president of the Chicago Headline Club. Reuben, Bob

Bob Reuben's first assignment as a staff correspondent of the National Broadcasting Co. was to cover the Byrd Antarctic expedition in 1947. Stationed aboard Admiral Byrd's flagship, the carrier Philippine Seas, he made frequent broadcasts both en route to and during the expedition's stay in Little America.

Reuben began his newspaper career as a reporter with the United Press Washington bureau in 1939. In 1943 he became military correspondent in Washington for Reuters and later that year was appointed chief of the Reuters Washington bureau.

Later in 1943 he went to England for Reuters to set up coverage of the American armies during the invasion of the Continent, and on D-day he parachuted from the lead plane of the invasion with the One hundred and first Airborne Division. As chief Reuters correspondent in the American sector, he covered the European campaign from D-day to the final meeting of American troops with the Russians on the Mulde River.

Immediately following VE-day, he was sent to the Pacific theater as Reuters chief correspondent with the ground forces, and he was with the first troops that landed at Tokyo's Atsugi Airport for the occupation. He set up the Reuters bureau in Tokyo, covered the Communist-Nationalist fighting in Manchuria and reestablished Reuters bureau in Korea.

During his coverage of the Pacific campaigns for Reuters, he made several broadcasts for NBC.

Reuben, who lived with Ernie Pyle while the latter covered the European war, was a technical adviser in the movie, The Story of GI Joe, and appeared briefly in the picture, playing himself. He is now stationed in New York.

Richardson, Stanley P.

Born in Norfolk, Va., January 26, 1902, and educated in North Carolina and Georgia. He began newspaper work as a reporter in Atlanta in 1920 and worked in other mid-South and Texas cities before joining the Associated Press staff as night editor in Dallas in 1922. For the succeeding 16 years he was a staff member of AP, serving in Oklahoma City, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, New York, and Moscow. He was chief of the Moscow Bureau for 3 years and then returned for a second assignment in Washington, which lasted 4 years. In 1938

he became confidential secretary to Ambassador Davies in Moscow, and 4 months after the outbreak of the war returned to Washington and was assigned with Davies to the Department of State. He resigned as secretary to Davies in 1941 to become Coordinator of International Broadcasting, serving as liaison between the Government and the shortwave broadcasters in the United States. When America entered the war he was granted leave of absence to serve as special adviser to the Director of Censorship on shortwave broadcasting. In September 1942, he joined NBC to become its London director, where he had the responsibility of organizing radio broadcasting facilities and assembling and directing NBC's staff of war correspondents for the invasion of Europe. Was the first American radio correspondent to fly with the Royal Air Force on a heavy bombing mission, when Berlin was raided. Crossed the Channel on D-day on a United States Navy PT boat convoying minesweepers which cleared the paths for the troop-laden transports. Supervised NBC reporting of the Allied offensives on the Continent through the German surrender. Now assistant to the vice president in charge of news and international relations in New York.

Sacrchinger, Cesar

Born in Aix-la-Chapelle in 1889, he came to this country in 1898, and became a citizen 12 years later. He studied music, sang in church, and began to write. His Art of Music, a 14-volume musical encyclopedia, is still an outstanding reference work. He was reporting music and politics in Europe after Versailles, when he turned to radio and became a pioneer in international broadcasting, bringing to the air such great personalities as George Bernard Shaw, King George V, King Albert, Queen Wilhelmina, Hindenburg, Mussolini, and Hitler. He returned to America after the Munich crisis of 1939 to begin his series, Story Behind the Headlines. Shortly before VE-day he made a tour of the European theater under General Eisenhower's supervision, visiting the liberated concentration camps of the Nazis and returning to the United States to report firsthand on the conditions under which prisoners of the Nazis lived during the Hitler regime. He is author of The Way Out of War, and The Coming Peace. Schneider, Adolph J.

Adolph J. Schneider, assistant manager of operations of the NBC news and special events department, was born in Nebraska City, Nebr., on June 12, 1910. He was educated at St. Andrews Academy, Nebraska City, and Creighton University, Omaha. He began his newspaper career in 1927, while still in high school, as a reporter for the Omaha World-Herald, and remained with that paper for 10 years, serving successively as reporter, rewrite man, and editorial writer. In 1937 he joined the staff of NBC's Des Moines affiliate, WHO, as a news writer and editor of the station's facsimile news broadcasts. The following year he went to New York to become a writer for the NBC news and special events department. Since then, he has served in almost every capacity in the news department, supervising and writing special events broadcasts, producing studio programs and finally, during the war, assisting in the production of all the important stories from overseas, including the D-day broadcasts from Normandy, the German surrender and the war's end as described from the battleship Missouri. In the summer of 1946 he was assigned to San Francisco for a period of several months to supervise the network's handling of the broadcasts from Bikini describing the atom bomb tests there. Now stationed in New York.

Silen, Bert

Was born in Marietta, Ohio, December 7, 1900. He grew up in San Francisco and Boise, Idaho, and attended Stanford University, from which he graduated in 1923. He went to the Philippines in 1928 and entered radio there, becoming manager of Station KZRM for RCA in 1929. During his affiliation with KZRM he served for 5 years as secretary of the Government Broadcast Committee. In 1939 he organized Station KZRH in Manila and became its manager, and 2 years later he joined NBC's news staff as Manila correspondent. In December of that year, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he broadcast daily from the Philippines and was one of the first radio men to give Americans a first-hand picture of the war as it was being fought. One of his most graphic broadcasts was an on-the-spot description of the Japanese bombing of Manila on December 9. 1941. His broadcasts continued until all stations in the islands were dismantled on December 31 and when newspapermen were evacuated from Manila he remained behind voluntarily and was captured by the Japanese. He spent the war in the Santo Tomas internment camp outside of Manila and was freed in February 1945, by the First Cavalry Division. As soon as KZRH resumed its

operations following the war, he once again became manager of the station and correspondent for NBC in Manila.

Sprague, Roger E.

Roger Sprague, a native of New Hampshire, was born in 1904. After receiving his degree from the University of New Hampshire in 1925, he joined the publishing house of Houghton Mifflin in Cambridge, Mass. A year later he left Cambridge to accept a reporter's berth on the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times. In 1927 he moved to California, where for the next 12 years he worked as a reporter and editorial man on such papers as the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Express and the Long Beach Telegram. In 1940 he began a war analysis column for the Trans-Radio Press syndicate and shortly thereafter moved into radio as a news writer and commentator for an independent Pasadena station. From there he progressed to the news editor's desk for an independent Hollywood station, and in 1944 he joined the NBC staff as a script writer. In 1945 he left NBC for a year's special newspaper work, returning to the network in 1946 as assistant manager of news and special events of the NBC western division. In June 1947 he became manager of the department. Now stationed in Hollywood. Swayze, John Cameron

John Cameron Swayze, New York commentator on NBC's World News round-up, a veteran newsman with more than 15 years of newspaper and radio experience, began his journalistic career in 1930 on the Kansas City Journal-Post and for 10 years held various posts on that paper, including rewrite, general assignment reporting, movie and radio reviewing. In 1931, he also began handling the news broadcasts sponsored by the newspaper and has been on the air almost continuously since that date.

In 1940, he left newspaper work to devote full time to radio, becoming a member of the news department of Station KMBC, Kansas City. He remained there for 5 years before joining the NBC western division news and special events department. He was appointed manager of the department in February 1946, and served in that capacity for more than a year before being transferred to New York.

He is 41 and attended Culver Academy and the University of Kansas. Thompson, John Hayes

John Thompson was born in Geneva, Iowa, and attended Fort Dodge (Iowa) High School, where he edited the school paper, then studied journalism as a scholarship student at Northwestern University. During his senior year there he was night editor of the Daily Northwestern and an assistant instructor in journalism. From college, he returned to Fort Dodge, where he joined the Fort Dodge Daily Messenger as a reporter. From there he went to Des Moines as a reporter and later a rewrite man in the United Press bureau there. In 1937 he joined NBC as assistant manager of the network's central division news and special events department, and in 1946 he was transferred to San Francisco to serve as manager of news and special events of the NBS-owned-and-operated station KPO. In February 1947, when the news and special events, the public service, and the press departments of NBC San Francisco were consolidated, Thompson was appointed manager of the newly created news and public-service department. Now stationed in San Francisco.

Tomlinson, Edward

Edward Tomlinson is the adviser on inter-American affairs to the National Broadcasting Co. As an NBC news analyst he presents a weekly program of commentary on hemisphere affairs which is broadcast over more than 100 key stations of the NBC network. Mr. Tomlinson has covered the nations of Central and South America since 1922 and is the dean of commentators and correspondents on inter-American matters. In his career he has visited the other Americas at least once a year, often more than once a year, and has traveled more than 400,000 miles by airplane throughout all the Americas from the Rio Grande to Patagonia. He counts among his personal friends the leading statesmen of all the nations.

Tomlinson makes his headquarters in Washington, D. C., where he is in touch daily with the State Department, the Latin-American embassies, the Pan American Union, and the other departments and agencies concerned with hemisphere affairs. He supplements this information by his frequent travels in the other American Republics. When he is traveling he broadcasts by short-wave from the cities and populous centers he is visiting, with on-the-spot reports of developments.