December, 1948
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THE COIN MACHINE JOURNAL
CBS; Richard Linkroum, CBS; Thos.
Elliston, Hearst newspapers; Sol
Taishoff, Broadcast magazine; Yermie
Stern, "Hit Parade."
Gold Awards Top Guild Dinner
A t W ash ington; Notable Guest List
Three gold awards to be presented
as one feature of the annual dinner
of the Washington Music Guild on
Tuesday, December 7, at the Hamil-
ton Hotel.
The recipients of the Music Guild
awards wern to be:
Major Robert J. Barrett, Supt. of
Metropolitan Police . Department, for
his exemplary work :for the Boys'
Clubs of Washington, D. • C.
Eddie Gallaher, CBS disc jockey,
for his public relations work for the
Guild and his success in selecting
90.04 per cent hits for the Hit Record
of the Week on his Moondial show.
pres. Capitol records; Shirley Povich,
the Washington Post; Elwood Davis,
pres., Junior Chamber . of Commerce;
Harry McArthur, the Washington
Star-; Bob Thiele, pres., Signature
records; Earl Gammons, vice-pres.,
While the United States Army,
Navy and Marine Corps were all
formed by acts of Congress in 1775,
the Coast Guard did not come into
existence until 1790.
Hirsh de La Viez, President of
Hirsh Coin Machine Corp ., who did
the most outstanding work with the
Guild. Hirsh was the organizer of the
Guild. Also at this dinner the Guild
initiated a program to present one
Juke Box a month to all children's
clubs regardless of race, color or creed.
The presentations of these Jukes were
to be made by Maj or Barrett and Ed-
die Gallaher.
The Music Guild A wards are gold
and will be twenty-one inches high,
mounted on a mahogany base. These
awards were manufactured by the
same concern that makes the Davis
Cup.
The guest list as supplied to COIN
MACHINE JOURNAL at time of go-
ing to press was as follows:
J. Edgar Hoover, Direc tor of the
F.B.I.; Attorney-General Tom Clark;
the Three Commissioners of the Dis-
trict of Columbia; L. B. Nichols, As-
sistant Director of the F.B.I.; Major
Robert J. Barrett, Superintendent of
Police of Washington, D.C.; Frank
Boucher, Chief Baker of the Variety
Clubs; Earl Godwin, radio commen-
tator; Morgan Beatty, N.B.C.; Jo
Stafford; Benny Goodman; Edward J.
McIntyre, "The Man at the Grand";
Carl T. McKelvey, vice-pres., J. P.
Seeburg Corp.; David C. Rockola,
pres. -Rock-Ola Manufacturing Corp.;
Senator Homer E. Capehart; Jay
Carmody, Washington Star; Arnold
Fine, WTTG; Johnny Bradford, WN-
BW; Eddie Gallagher, Columbia sys-
tem; Arthur Godfrey, CBS; Jack
Kapp and Sidney Goldberg, Decca
Records; James Murray RCA-Victor;
• Manny Sacks, Columbia records; Jack
Hallstrom, RCA-Victor; Ike Burman,
Apollo records; Leon Chatelain, Jr.,
Washington Board of Trade; Sidney
Nathan, King records; ? ? Walliches,
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