Broadcasting (July - Dec 1937)

•CONCENTRATION 44»/o OF ALL RETAIL SALES IN MINNESOTA ARE MADE TO TWIN CITIES LISTENERS w T C N NBC BLUE NETWORK STATION Covers An Even Greater Area Than This Rich Metropolitan Marltet Owned and Operated By MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE ST. PAUL DISPATCH PIONEER PRESS Wesley Temple Bldg., Minneapolis FREES PETERS.Inc. National Representatives YOUNG & RUBICAM Inc., New York, announces the following additions to its personnel : Tom Lane, formerly of the WOR publicity department, and James E. O'Bryon, formerly of the CBS press department, have joined the agency's radio publicity staff ; Adrian Samish, formerly of the radio production staff of Arthur Kudner Inc., New York, has been named to handle production of We The People. PETER BARNUM, formerly of Young & Rubicam Inc., New York, has joined the general radio production stafiE of Ruthrauff & Ryan Inc., that city. LARRY WHITE, formerly executive assistant to Arthur Rush, Hollywood manager of Columbia Management of California Inc.. has joined Leland Hayward Inc.. Beverly Hills, Cal. talent agency, as head of its radio department. NATE TUFTS, of Ruthrauff & Ryan Inc., Hollywood production staff, and Mrs. Tufts are the parents of a baby boy born Nov. 12. DANNY DANKER, vice-president in charge of J. Walter Thompson Co., Hollywood, is the father of a baby girl, Suzanne, born Nov. 12. James S. IJealle. assistant publicity director, is the father of a daughter. Celia, born the same day. J. M. TODD has been named continuity director of W. K. Nash Adv. Agency. St. Louis, succeeding Dick Sharp, now with W. K. Nash Adv. Agency. Clair Callihan has joined the KSD continuity staff. S. K. ELLIS Jr.. formerly with CBS in Chicago, has joined the Chicago office of Fletcher & Ellis in a research capacity. EARS HERE'S A SURVEY THAT COUNTS EARS! ■ np uiiiBV AAiiUTi * ^ acciiTote, AKC nllAT COUnl! unbiased cmalysis of LISTENING HABITS in the seven major cities of Nebriowa . . . proving again that WOW dominates the rich trade territory of eastern NEBRaska and western Iowa. If your copy has not yet arrived, write us today! You'll want it for your files. JOHN GILLIN, Jr., Mgr. Owned and Operated by the WOW Woodnnen of the World Life Insurance Society JOHN BLAIR CO., Representatives New York, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco Omaha, Nebraska 590 KC 5,000 Watts Mr. Bull Bull Heads Agency FRANK BULL, well-known Pacific Coast sports commentator and agency account executive, has been elected president of Allied Advertising A g e ncies Inc., Los Angeles. He succeeds R. L. Rust who resigned Nov. 15 to devote his time to other business interests. Dick Smith is first vice-president and Walter McCreary, second vice-president in charge of sales. Fehr Gardner is secretary-treasurer. Officers of the agency are all former radio station executives and are still actively engaged in broadcasting. NELSON CARTER has been named manager of the Chicago office of Beaumont & Hohman Inc., coming from the Omaha office where he has been succeeded by O. W. O'Neil. J. A. Barnes has been named an account executive in the Chicago office and Clarke Trudeau production manager. CROSSLEY & HAM Inc., San Francisco and Portland, Ore., has been formed by consolidation of Ernest R. Ham Adv. Agency and J. T. Crossley Co. Inc. The San Francisco office is now at 500 Sansome St. Mr. Ham is manager of the Portland office, in the Oregonian Bldg. WAMBOLDT & HOLDEN, new Chicago production firm f Broadcasting, Oct. 151, has expanded to larger quarters. Previously at 20 E. Jackson St. the firm is now located on the 19th floor at 165 W. Wacker Drive. W. W. Joyce, formerly assistant sales manager of Rural Progress magazine, and later chief sound effects man at NBC, Chicago, has been added to the production staff. The firm is writing and producing Public Hero No. 1 for Falstafi^ Brewing Co., St. Louis, and the Tom Mix show for Ralston-Purina Co., St. Louis. CLIFFORD CARDING has joined Columbia Management of California Inc.. Hollywood, as executive assistant to Arthur Rush, manager. He succeeds Larry White, resigned. Paul Louis, in charge of radio talent of Columbia Concerts Corp., New York, was in Hollywood early in November conferring with Mr. Rush on expanded West Coast activities. BERT LEVEY Theatrical Agency, Los Angeles, was to open branch offices in Warner Bros. Theatre Building, Hollywood, on Dec. 1. A radio department was to be established. JAMES M. COSTELLO, coiTespondent for the Milwaukee Sentinel and formerly with a contracting firm in Janesville, Wis., has joined Bert S. Gittens, Advertising, Milwaukee agency, to handle industrial accounts. Atlai USE WGST 5000 watts day 1000 watts nite Repls: 890 kc E. KATZ SPECIAL ADVERTISING AGENCY ADAM J. YUNG Jr., formerly in sales promotion and research for NBC, New York, and more recently with Bryant Publicity Service, New York, has been appointed time-buyer of H. M. Kiesewetter Adv. Agencv, New York. FREEMAN KEYES, president of Russel M. Seeds Inc., Chicago, has appointed Tom Wallace as manager of the agency's Hollywood office. CECIL UNDERWOOD, of the Needham, Louis & Brorby Inc., Chicago production staff, was in Hollywood during November on a combined business and pleasure trip. He produces the NBC Fibber McGee d MoUie series spon.sored by S. C. Johnson & Son Inc. GEORGE D. LOTTMAN, New York publicity service, has established Hollywood offices at 6605 Hollywood Blvd., with Jerry Olenick and Murry Weintraub as co-managers. Speclializing in radio, the organization has added Amy Alexander and Robert Joseph to its writing staff. WALTER SCHWIMMER, partner of Schwimmer & Scott, Chicago, will sail from New Orleans Dec. 22 on a two-week cruise. Included in Mr. Schwimmer's itinerary is Havana, Panama, Honduras, and Nicaragua. CHARLES S. KNAPP, New York advertising man, has joined Chambers & Wiswell, Boston, to direct copy and idea activity. He had formerly been with Young & Rubicam, J. Walter Thompson Co. and Ruthrauff & Ryan. WESTON W. HILL, copy chief and account executive of Cecil, Warwick & Legler, New York, has joined Brooke, Smith & French to head the promotion unit on the Hudson auto account. CHARLES SANFORD KNAPP, formerly copy and account executive wit-k J. Walter Thompson Co., Young & Rubicam, Frank Seaman, and Ruthrauff & Ryan, has joined Chambers & Wiswell Inc., Boston. He will head its copy staff. DON FRANCISCO, vice-president •£ Lord & Thomas, Los Angeles, has been made president of the new Hollywood Pacific Coast League Baseball Club. CARROLL NYE and Robert Woodburn of Radio Feature Service Inc., Hollywood publicity concern, were married at Riverside, Oal., Nov. 20. WILLIAM REUBENS, at one time radio editor of Orchestra World, New York, has joined Radio Feature Service Inc., Hollywood publicity concern, as agency contact man. MASON BARLOW Advertising, is the title of a new agency established by Mr. Barlow at 201 N. Wells Bldg.. Chicago. Mr. Barlow for many years has served manufacturers and others as sales and advertising counsel but heretofore has placed no contracts. Clients include Adolph I. Buehler, metallurgical apparatus and optical instruments ; Castle-Ford Co., decorative linens ; Clayson Governor Sales Co., automotive governors ; D & B Mfg. Co., automotive gears, and Klipfel Mfg. Co., steam specialties. WILLARD (Doc) HALL, wellknown radio director and master-ofceremonies, has joined Keighley & Keate, Beverly Hills, Cal. production agency under a five-year contract. He directs the radio department and new commercial production division. On Nov. 18 he started a weekly 45-minute professional talent program Discoveries of 1938 on KFWB, Hollywood, under sponsorship of The Boston Store, Los Angeles. WAIR, Winston-Salem, N. C, claims to have one of the most unique sponsors on the air. He is C. A. Boles, local mule dealer, who has purchased a daily spot announcement for six months. ON THE N. B. G. RED NETWORK Page 54 • December J, 1937 BROADCASTING • Broadcast Advertising