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THE Advertising & Allied Industries Div., Joint Defense Appeal, presented awards to Liebmann Breweries, Bristol-Meyers and American Tobacco Co. for "distinguished contributions to the enrichment of our American heritage" at a dinner in New York. At the dinner were (I to r): Ed Sullivan, CBS-TV star, toastmaster; Thomas B. McFadden, vice president in charge of NBC Spot Sales; award winner Philip Liebmann, president of Liebmann Breweries (Rheingold beer); Marion Harper Jr., president, McCann-Erickson and chairman of Advertising & Allied Industries Div.; award winner Lee H. Bristol, president, Bristol-Myers (pharmaceuticals); Henry E. Schultz, New York attorney and national chairman, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith; award winner Frank Bowden, assistant to President Paul M. Hahn, American Tobacco Co., and Merle S. Jones, vice president in charge of CBS owned television stations and general services.
commercial network drama and documentary treating phases of civil liberties with "the greatest distinction, taste and effectiveness. " A follow-up prize of $15,000 will go to an independent tv station producing "the best program concerning liberty and freedom" during 1955.
The fund last week added the sons of two American leaders to the awards jury: Robert Taft Jr., Cincinnati attorney and son of the late U. S. Senator Robert A. Taft, and Philip H. Willkie, Rushville, Ind.. attorney and son of the late Wendell Willkie.
The jury also includes Robert M. Purcell. managing director, KEYD-TV Minneapolis: Kermit Bloomgarden, Broadway theatre producer; Gardner Cowles, publisher-broadcaster: Dr. Buell G. Gallagher, president. College of the City of New York; author-critic Gilbert Seldes; attorney Harrison Tweed, and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt.
To Receive McNamee Awards
SPORTS BROADCASTERS Assn. has selected golfer Mildred (Babe) Didrikson Zaharias and Brooklyn Dodgers Manager Walter Alston to receive the ninth annual Graham McNamee Memorial Awards for "outstanding contributions to sports during the past year," it was announced last week by Don Dunphy, SBA president. Presentation of the awards, established in the memory of the late pioneer sportscaster, will be made at SBA's ninth annual dinner at the Park-Sheraton Hotel in New York on Feb. 2.
BMI Honors Songwriters
FOURTH ANNUAL Broadcast Music Inc. publisher and writer awards were presented Dec. 5 to writers and publishers connected with all BMI-licensed songs which have placed among the so-called first-ten at some time during the year. A total of 28 songs were honored at a dinner attended by some 200 persons at New York's Hotel Pierre.
BMI President Carl Haverlin presided and the presentations were made by Vice President Robert J. Burton. Sydney M. Kaye, board chairman, vice president and general counsel, was featured speaker.
Ohio Teachers Honor Four Radio-Tv Programs
SPONSORS of four radio and television programs received awards from the public school teachers of Ohio for the "outstanding contribution to education" made by the programs. Winner in the adult tv division was the John Cameron Swayze News Caravan on NBC sponsored by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel cigarettes) and Plymouth Div., Chrysler Corp.
The children"s award went to Zoo Parade on NBC, sponsored by American Chicle Co. (chewing gum) and Mutual of Omaha. Winners in the radio adult and children's divisions respectively were NBC's Meet the Press and The Ohio Story, sponsored by the Ohio Bell Telephone Co.
The awards were made during the annual meeting of the Ohio Education Assn. in Columbus, Dec. 1 1.
AWARD SHORTS
George M. Burbach, general manager, KSDAM-TV St. Louis, Mo., awarded life membership in Advertising Club of St. Louis.
WTVJ Miami, Fla., awarded certificate of commendation by Army and Air National Guard for distinguished service during "Operation Minuteman," nation-wide test alert.
WHAM-AM-TV Rochester, N. Y., awarded plaque, commemorating WHAM's medical program. Speaking of Health, by Monroe (N. Y.) County Medical Society.
Los Angeles City Council, Dec. 6, adopted a resolution commending KNXT (TV) Los Angeles, its general manager, James T. Aubrey Jr. and producers Bill Stout, Biil Whitley and Irwin Rosten for the tv shooting of series on juvenile delinquency, Focus On Delinquency.
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