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AWARDS
THESE WON PEABODY AWARDS FOR 1956
CBS was the numerical heavyweight among winners of the 1956 17th annual George Foster Peabody awards when they were announced last Tuesday at a meeting of the Radio & Television Executives Society of New York. It came away with five trophies, while ABC won two and NBC took one and shared another with Mutual.
The awards were presented by Bennett Cerf, chairman of the Peabody board, and Dean John E.
Drewry of the U. of Georgia's Henry W. Grady School of Journalism. The awards are administered jointly by the school and the Peabody board.
WNYC New York won two awards: the one for radio education represented on this page and another, for radio youth and/or children's programs, for its Little Orchestra Society Children's Concert. Another went to United Nations Radio-Tv for its promotion of international understanding.
ABC's John Daly (1) took tv news honors for convention coverage. In radio, that network's Edward P. Morgan won top honors with his news show.
CBS-TV's You Are There was cited in the television education category "for helping to remind us that the men who made United States history did walk and talk, and think and feel, and for making the statues and portraits come briefly to life again." This is a scene from the series' "Fall of Ft. Sumter."
ED SULLIVAN'S consistent and successful presentations ranging from "dog acts ... to dancers" won for tv entertainment.
THE FIRST Peabody writing award went to Rod Serling for his "Requiem for a Heavyweight" on CBS-TV.
AWARD for promoting international understanding went to CBSTV's Secret Life of Danny Kaye — "a saga of the joyous genius of an 'ambassador extraordinary.' "
CITATION for radio entertainment was won by the Bob & Ray comedy team (Bob Elliot [1] and Ray Goulding), who appear on Mutual and on NBC's Monitor.
EDWARD R. MURROW and teammates Howard K. Smith, Winston Burdett, Ernest Leiser, Frank Donghi, Eric Sevareid, Larry LeSueur and David Schoenbrun won the Peabody television public service award for CBS-TV's "World in Crisis," which "ably demonstrated what television can accomplish journalistically when it gets on with its job."
NBC-TV's Youth Wants to Know won for television youth and/ or children's programs. The judges said
it reveals "an intelligence and a development of today's young people which are indeed heartening."
WNYC New York's Books in Profile series, featuring Virgilia Peterson, won for radio education.
CRITIC Jack Gould of the New York Times won a special Peabody for encouraging higher standards.
COMBINED radio-tv public service with its Regimented Raindrops series won for WOW Omaha. Frank Fogarty, v.p.-gen.mgr., accepted.
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