Broadcasting Telecasting (Apr-Jun 1957)

ADVERTISERS & AGENCIES AWARDS MR. SMITH MR. SCHWARTZKOPFF MR. HANCE MR. LEISER MR. GREEN MR. HOSHAL retirement after more than 20 years with division. Jack L. Coffey resigns as director of radiotv advertising for Quality Bakers of America. Leo O. Ricketts, director of sales for McClatchy Broadcasting Co. (KFBK-AM-FM Sacramento, KMJ-AM-FM-TV Fresno, KERN-AM-FM Bakersfield, KBEE-AMFM Modesto, all Calif., and KOH Reno, Nev.), Sacramento, to Pureta Sausage Co., Sacramento, as sales manager. C. W. Christenberry Jr., staff producer-director of tv and radio, N. W. Ayer & Son, to Guild, Bascom & Bonfigli Inc.. N. Y. His first assignment will be that of executive producer for Galen Drake network tv show. Larry Mulhearn and Paul Baur, associate copy supervisors, Kenyon & Eckhardt, N. Y., named copy supervisors. Magnus Hendell, vice president and account executive, Modern Merchandising Bureau Inc., N. Y., to Bayuk Cigars Inc., Phila., as advertising director. Irving Levine, formerly with Benton & Bowles and J. Walter Thompson Co., N. Y., named production manager of Getschal Co., same city. David A. Horn, formerly with Renner Assoc. and Roberts & Mander Corp., and Ralph Riggins, formerly advertising director for G. H. Delp Co., to Arndt, Preston, Chapin, Lamb & Keen, Phila.. as assistant account managers. Albert Behar, formerly director of promotional art department of Crowell-Collier Pub. Co., N. Y., appointed art director for Roy S. Durstine Inc., same city. James T. Kennedy, formerly with J. Walter Thompson Co., Chicago, and Ted Bates & Co., N. Y., to Gordon Best Co.. Chicago, as copy director. Edward J. Bravo, art director, Al Paul Lefton Co., N. Y., to MacManus, John & Adams, same city, as art director. John C. Nolan, Fletcher D. Richards Inc., and John W. Nason, Foote, Cone & Belding, to MacManus, John & Adams, copywriting staff. Michael A. Chappell, copywriter. Young & Rubicam, to Erwin. Wasey & Co.. L. A., as copywriter. Paul Keller, Bryan Houston, and Herman Raucher, Calkins & Holden. to Reach, McClinton & Co., N. Y., as associate research director and copywriter, respectively. Richard E. Goebel, operator of his own agency, to Arthur Meyerhoff & Co. as manager of Phoenix office, succeeding Claude Brooks who is taking leave of absence for special assignments in Chicago and L. A. Ken Alstad, formerly group head of agricultural accounts at Klau-Van Pieterson Dunlap Inc., Milwaukee, to Leo Burnett Co., Chicago, as copywriter. SDX Selects Eight For Radio-Tv Awards EIGHT winners of Sigma Delta Chi awards for distinguished service in journalism were named in radio and television categories last week by Victor E. Bluedorn, director of awards for the national journalistic fraternity. They went to: Howard K. Smith, CBS London, for radio newswriting. "His account of events in Britain during the withdrawal from the Suez Canal Zone . . . captured the excitement and the tragedy of a momentous period in history," said the SDX citation. Edward (Johnny) Green, KPHO Phoenix, Ariz., for radio reporting. Mr. Green's "outstanding coverage of the Grand Canyon air disaster, June 30, 1956, which claimed 128 lives, is a dramatic example of on-the-spot radio reporting at great personal risk," according to the citation. CBS New York, for public service in radio journalism. CBS' The World at Large series "of outstanding reporting and commentary constituted imaginative leadership and intelligent enterprise in radio journalism," SDX judges stated. Jerry Schwartzkopff and Ernest Leiser of CBS, and Julian B. Hoshal and Dick Hance of KSTP-TV Minneapolis, duplicate awards for television reporting. Mr. Schwartzkopffs film of the battle in Budapest during the Hungarian uprising in October 1956, combined with Mr. Leiser's "taut, low-pitched narrative to produce a masterpiece worthy of their courage, skill and intelligent reporting," their citation said. KSTP-TV News Director Hoshal and Mr. Hance, film director, organizing coverage of a jet air crash into a row of homes, produced a "remarkably complete, dramatic and touching . . . account of the tragedy . . . and [this] resulted in far-reaching changes in airport development plans in the area. KPIX San Francisco, for public service in tv journalism. KPIX's Decision or Dilemma series on metropolitan traffic problems was called a "far-seeing, practical endeavor" by the awards committee. Winners in the 25th annual awards program of the news fraternity will receive bronze medallions and plaques in New York at a banquet and ceremony May 16. Sol Taishoff. editor-publisher of B«T and national president of Sigma Delta Chi, will make the presentations. Judging was done by 59 journalists and distinguished persons. Nominations were made by individuals, newspapers, magazines, radio and tv stations and networks, journalism schools and civic organizations. Two B»T Stories Win ABP Journalism Awards TWO awards of merit for outstanding journalistic achievements in 1956 were awarded B«T last Wednesday by Associated Business Publications, professional organization of business papers which are members of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. The citations were made in connection with the third annual Jesse H. Neal editorial awards and were announced at a meeting of the National Conference of Business Paper Editors. ABP affiliate, held at the Shoreham Hotel, Washington. A certificate of merit was presented for an article, "The Radio Networks — Are They Here to Stay?" The article, which appeared in the Nov. 26, 1956, issue of B»T, was written jointly by Edwin H. James, vice president-managing editor, and Rufus Crater and Bruce Robertson, senior editors. The second B»T certificate of merit was awarded J. Frank Beatty, senior editor, for a market study of Texas which appeared in the July 26. 1956, issue. The Texas study was one of a series published by B«T. Dean Kenneth E. Olson, of Northwestern U.'s Medill School of Journalism, headed the panel of judges who picked the winners. Page 44 • April 22, 1957 Broadcasting • Telecasting