Broadcasting Telecasting (Jan-Mar 1956)

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BIG BUSINESS MEN-Members Sigurd Larmon of Y&R Still No. I William Lewis of K&E Whirlpool Made it $34.5 Million Milton Biow 65% Radio-tv Clifford Fitzgerald of DF&S $13 Million in Radio Alone Ben Duffy of BBD&O Marion Harper Jr., McCann-Erickson Norman Strouse of JWT Radio-tv Share of Billing, 40% Up $14 Million (With Coke to Come) 33% of $174 Million Broadcast Advertising: reported in Broadcasting • Telecasting December 12*, these eleven men head agencies which placed half a billion dollars in radio-tv in 1955. Young & Rubicam paced the agency field with $72 million. McCannErickson came up from fourth last year to a tie with BBDO for second in 1955; each billed $60 million. J. Walter Thompson, up $8 million from 1954, placed fourth with $58 million. Remainder of the Big Eleven included • Reprints of detailed report available upon request. Write nearest B'T office: Washington, D. C, New York City, Chicago, or Hollywood.