GONZAGA GOES GAGA

GONZAGA GOES GAGA

War Keeps Upsetting Plans Of GE Announcer

REPORTS from all over the nation indicate the war has caused marriages by the millions but in one particular case the emergency almost performed vice versa. Luis Gonzaga, Portuguese announcer of General Electric’s shortwave station in Schenectady, unaware of things to come, had made arrangements to marry his prospective bride in her native Cuba on Dec. 10. A scant three days before the big event the Pearl Harbor incident threw young Gonzaga on a 12-hour daily schedule with all leave cancelled.

Undaunted, he rushed all the necessary affidavits to Cuba where on the appointed day his fiancee’s brother took his place by proxy in the ceremony. A fortnight ago Mrs. Gonzaga met her real husband in New York City for a 12-hour honeymoon before Luis rushed back to Schenectady.

As his bride spoke no English, Luis had a phone installed immediately so that she could call him on any problems. Two hours later telephone conversations in foreign languages were forbidden at WGEA.

From page 24 of the January 19, 1942 issue of Broadcasting Magazine