Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1963)

tion's history, personalities, new fall programs and new studio and office facilities. Ding-dong ■ The original tapes of the NBC chimes, historic signature of the NBC Radio network, have been added to the archives of the Hollywood Museum as a gift from the American Association of Television and Radio Artists. Microwave march ■ Cjch-tv Halifax, N. S., held a parade in connection with its joining the CTV Television Network in mid-September after completion of the microwave link from Montreal to Halifax. One of the floats in the parade showed a huge television camera and the call letters of the eight other stations on the network across Canada to Vancouver on the Pacific coast. Ugh! ■ Wwdc Washington, which carries the Washington Redskins football games, is looking for Joe or Josephine Redskin, "the most typical fan." Prizes include a two-week vacation to Nassau, movie camera, and season tickets to the 1964 Redskins games. Pumpkin hoopla ■ Wxyz-tv Detroit is looking for the largest pumpkin in Michigan and is offering $1 a pound, or if the winner donates his reward to a charity, it will be $2 a pound. The station will use the pumpkin to make Michigan's biggest Jack-O-Lantern. Aerial wedding bells The top of the ferris wheel at an Atlanta amusement park became the setting for a wedding, sponsored and broadcast by wplo Atlanta. The couple was selected from entries received during a statewide search. Among the more than $3,000 in wedding gifts from the station and amusement park, was a honeymoon trip to Miami. BROADCAST ADVERTISING John F. Bresnehan, William P. Gordon, William M. LaCava and John L. Owen elected VP's at Foote, Cone & Belding. Mr. Bresnehan and Mr. Gordon are account supervisors on KoolAid account; Mr. LaCava is senior producer and head of TV commercial production and Mr. Owen is director of broadcast for New York office. Paul B. Blustain joins J. M. Mathes, New York, as broadcast production supervisor. He was formerly with McCann-Marschalk as producer of TV commercials. Mr. Blustain W. Paul Tippett Jr., previously in advertising department of Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, named advertising manager of Autolite Division of Ford Motor Co. John W. Murphy, formerly VP and director of commercial production, Kenyon & Eckhardt, New York, and also executive producer with Filmaster Inc., Los Angeles, joins Needham, Louis & Brorby, Chicago, as TV-radio producer. W. P. Brown, product manager in General Foods' Post Division, named FATES & FORTUNES advertising manager of GF's Birds Eye Division, White Plains, N. Y. E. L. Timberman, associate general product manager, Colgate-Palmolive Co., has rejoined Kenyon & Eckhardt, New York, as a management supervisor and VP. Charles G. Torosian, formerly with Edward H. Weiss & Co., Chicago, and Ronald F. Sandilands, previously with Campbell-Ewald Co., Detroit, join creative staff of Needham, Louis & Brorby, Chicago, as art directors. Robert F. Nelson, formerly with N. W. Ayer & Son, Philadelphia and Chicago, joins NL&B as writer. Hamilton P. Dendel, administrative manager of American Oil Co.'s eightstate New York sales region, named director of public relations in firm's general office at Chicago. He succeeds James M. Patterson who has transferred to American Oil's marketing department on special assignment. Jerome V. Svec, senior market analyst with Motorola Inc. since 1956, joins research department of Clinton E. Frank Inc., Chicago. Bruce R. Kelly and Theodore R. Mars ton join copy staff of Clinton E. Frank Inc., Chicago. Mr. Kelly was with Waldie & Briggs there and Mr. Marston was with Leo Burnett Co. George Beyer Jr. and Robert E. Anderson promoted to merchandising managers in Lever Bros. Personal Products Division and Household Products Division, respectively. Mr. Beyer was formerly new products manager of Personal Products Division. Mr. Anderson was special projects manager-consumer relations. Charles M. (Chick) Green joins Sana Inc. as director. Mr. Green has recently been a freelance tv spot director. Herman E. Bakken Jr. rejoins Pittsburgh office of Fuller & Smith & Ross as account executive. THE MEDIA John Scuoppo, manager of promotion at NBC, named director, promotion for TV network. Mr. Scuoppo will supervise network's national promotion activities in West Coast and New York promotion departments. Gerald E. Rowe, formerly manager of audience advertising and promotion at NBC, becomes director. He joined network in 1960 as manager, creative services for on-the-air promotion. Mr. Rowe Mr. Scuoppo Bob Price, formerly with San Francisco office of CBS Television Stations National Sales, appointed sales manager of kcbs, CBS-owned radio station in that city, where he started his broadcasting career as a local salesman eight years ago. He succeeds Ken Stratton, who has returned to Chicago office of CBS Radio Spot Sales. Frank Crane has resigned from Broadcast Clearing House to devote full time to developing new business venture to be announced shortly. Mr. Crane was head of Los Angeles office of Torbet, Allen & Crane before joining BSH. Allen V. Martini, since last May coordinator of sales and operations of Theatre-Vision Color Corp., National General Corp. subsidiary to develop a closed circuit color tv network for theatres, promoted to VP. Before joining Theatre-Vision, he was a sales executive for Ziv-UA Television. Sergeant Major Bill Mansfield, who retires from Army Oct. 31, will join public relations office of National Association of Broadcasters as audio-visual Worldwide assignment Don Davis, retired broadcaster formerly with whb and kmbc, both Kansas City, Mo., has joined faculty of University of the Seven Seas as lecturer on public relations in business. University of the Seven Seas is a floating university offering college credit during 110day around the world cruise which will visit over 20 ports of call. BROADCASTING, October 7, 1963