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front office E DWARD LARKIN named manager of Los Angeles office, CBS Radio and TV Spot Sales. CHARLES F. GRISHAM, WLTV (TV) Atlanta, Ga., named national sales manager for station. RALPH DAWSON, WJR Detroit, named assistant sales manager, WXYZ !tV that city. j JGEORGE GREAVES, assistant general manager, KNBC San Francisco, named program chief in addition to present duties. ^:{jUNIUS ZOLP, NBC-TV Chicago sales traffic manager, lite network's TV sales staff, that city. ; JACK ELLISON, KWIN Ashland, Ore., named manager in charge of Seattle office of John Keating Co., station a-epresentatives. Dawson WALTER ENGELHARDT, sales staff of KVFD Ft. Dodge, la., to sales ji staff of George W. Clark Co., Chicago, station representative. i : ROGER L. HARRISON, sales staff, WBZ Boston, to KSTP-AM-FM-TV St. Paul-Minneapolis, as radio account executive. 3 RAY D. SCOFIELD, account executive with John E. Pearson Co., and iC. RODNEY GIBSON, account executive at All-Canada Radio Facilities, join N. Y. TV sales staff of Headley-Reed. Ja. GAREN FERRISE, commercial manager, WMMN Fairmont, W. Va., named managing director, assisted by FRANK J. LEE, WMMN program director [B»T, March 17]. THOMAS BOISE, sales staff, KSFO San Francisco, joins local sales department of KNBC there. ARTHUR H. BERG, Kling Studios representative, to WNBQ (TV) Chicago, on sales staff. IVIr Fcrriso PHILIP MERGENER, HeadleyReed, Chicago, representative firm, to NBC Spot Sales, that city. jRALPH D. HERBERT, Salt Lake City advertising man, to KMOD {Modesto, Calif., commercial staff. WALTER A. SCANLON, regional sales promotion supervisor for Alexjander Smith Inc., carpet manufacturer, named sales promotion manager jfor CBS Television Film Sales, N. Y. 'I JOSEPH BRENNER, FCC regional attorney in Los Angeles, resigned to join S. V. 0. Prichard in establishing law firm of Prichard & Brenner, ;S21 So. Beverly Drive, L. A. ■ii JHULY BRAY, account executive, Kal Ehrlich & Merrick Advertising, Washington, D. C, to WGMS that city as director of sales replacing PATRICK HAYES, now management consultant. RICHARD C. SHEPARD, commercial manager, WXRA Kenmore, N. Y., to WBEN Buffalo sales staff. ERNEST FELIX, ABC assistant treasurer and former acting general manager of network's Western Division, Hollywood, resigns and will announce future TV plans at a later date. Mr. Bray jj^cK FREW, WJPS Evansville, Ind., to KITO San Bernardino, Calif., as commercial manager. RAYMOND SOLARI, salesman for Birds Eye Los Angeles office, subsidiary General Foods Corp., N. Y., to KTTV (TV) Hollywood as special sales representative. BENEDICT GIMBEL Jr., president-general manager, WIP Philadelphia, named radio-TV chairman for second annual Education Week for the Blind commencing today. . . . WILLIAM D. PABST, general manager of KFRC San Francisco and vice president of Don Lee Broadcasting System, named head of the 1952 Boy Scout Exhibition Show May 2-3. . . .NORMAN CASH, assistant general sales manager, WLW Cincinnati, father of boy, Jeffrey Macdonald, March 4. . . . WALTER HAASE, manager, WDRC Hartford, Conn., appointed member of volunteer committee of area's Office of Price Stabilization. . . . FRANK ESTES, assistant manager, WKNE Keene, N. H., father of boy, Richard Henry, March 1. . . . S. R. SAGUE, general manager of WSRS Cleveland, taking a short vacation in South after business trip to Washington, D. C. . . . WILLIAM A. McGUINEAS, commercial manager of WGN Chicago, is vacationing for three weeks in Arizona. . . . T. ARTHUR EVANS, secretary-treasurer of Canadian Assn. of Broadcasters, Ottawa, named member of 11th annual advertising award committee of Assn. of Canadian Advei-tisers. 'HARRY LIME' SOLD IN 392 Larsg-Worth Series Renewed TRANSCRIBED radio series, The Lives of Harry Lime, has been placed in 392 markets throughout the U. S. according to John D. Langlois, sales manager of LangWorth Distributing Corp., who says the series also is being broadcast in Bermuda, Alaska, Hawaii and Great Britain. Originally contracted for on 26week basis with option for renewal, the series has proved so successful that options are being picked up daily, Mr. Langlois said. Among recent renewals is sponsorship by General Electric in cooperation with Dynamic Stores over WJZ New York. Success of the series — produced by Harry Alan Towers — has resulted in Lang-Worth plans for another open-end series featuring star talent for distribution in the near future. MORE than $80,000 worth of time was donated by Southern Calif, radio and TV stations in 1951 for prevention of forest fires, according to W. S. Rosecrans, president Conservation Assn. of Southern Calif. 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