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Established 1879
Vol. 112-No. 8
THE
PIONEER
August, 1953
REVIEW
PUBLICATION
OF
2,881 $1 Issue
THE MUSIC
INDUSTRY
8448 Attend 52nd NAMM Convention
Junior Executives Form; Russell B. Wells, Pres.
HE 52nd Annual Convention of the
T chants
National Association of Music Mer-
and the Music Industry Trade
Show was held at the Palmer House in
Chicago commencing July 13th last.
Regarding the official figures, there
was 8.448 registered attendance to the
Show and the exhibits occupied eight
floors of the Palmer House.
The registration took place on Sun-
day morning, July 12th. and there were
several meetings during the day, in-
cluding committee meetings of the
band instruments, piano and organ,
radio and television, sales training,
trade practice and tuner-musicians.
There was also a meeting of the N.A.
M.M. Group Insurance trustees which
took place at 10 a.m. and in the after-
noon there were committee meetings
of advertising, legislative, phono-
graphs, records, sheet music, etc.
The National Piano Travelers Asso-
ciation held its annual meeting on
Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m.
The Executive Committee of the Na-
tional Association of Musical Merchan-
dise Wholesalers held its meeting that
day, and the National Association of
Band Instrument Manufacturers had its
annual meeting also. The annual meet-
ing of the National Association of Mu-
sical Merchandise Wholesalers was
held at 6 p.m. and the annual meeting
of the National Association of Musical
Merchandise Manufacturers was also
held at the same time.
Monday, July 13th, opened up with
the charter breakfast of the Junior
Executives of the N.A.M.M. at which
Parham \^ erlein of Philip Werlein
Ltd., New Orleans, was elected Presi-
dent. There was a press conference
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, AUGUST, 1953
Meet the new Officers: Harris, Murphy, Gard, Campbell, Wells and Callaway.
held in the Crystal Room at 10 a.m.
and the Opening Luncheon was held in
the Grand Ballroom at noon.
It was here that Harry E. Callaway.
President of the association, welcomed
the guests and pointed out some of the
accomplishments which had been exe-
cuted during the past year. "The new-
est addition to the member services," he
said, "has been the new Group Insur-
ance Program for members and their
employees which has taken almost the
entire year to develop . . . through
our Group Insurance program the
N.A.M.M. has opened an avenue to its
members which leads to improved em-
ployee relations."
Tribute to Junior Erecutives
He then paid a tribute to the Junior
Executives of the N.A.M.M. in which
he said, "This morning, the Junior Ex-
ecutives of N.A.M.M. was officially
born at its Charter Members break-
fast. This fine new organization recog-
nizes the value and importance of
younger blood in our association. I am
a positive believer in young organiza-
tions and I have devoted much of my
time in building my own enterprise
accordingly. This new group will be
the reservoir from which the N.A.M.M.
will one day draw its leadership. In
the interim, we have great hopes that
the Junior Executives group will con-