Broadcasting Telecasting (Apr-Jun 1957)

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PEOPLE TV's Club 60 color variety show, have announced their marriage, May 23. Nancy Keulen, traffic manager, KBIG Catalina, Calif., married to Bill Hefley, June 2. Brod Seymour, staff announcer, WBAZ-TV Huntington, W. Va., married to Ruth Johns, former secretary to general manager, WEHT-TV Henderson, Ky., May 4. Gene Davis, disc jockey, WHB Kansas City, father of girl, May 30. Richard Dix, WBAL-TV Baltimore, father of son, Donald Albert, May 18. REPRESENTATIVES < Oliver T. Trittler, sales staff, KWK-TV St. Louis, to Blair-Tv, same city, as account executive. Carlos Reese, account executive, Frederic W. Ziv Co., St. Louis, to John Blair & Co., same city, as account executive. Steve Rintoul Jr., account executive, Venard, Rintoul & McConnell, N. Y., station representative, father of girl, June 3. Grandfather is Steve Rintoul Sr., vice president of firm. Jennie R. Snell, assistant to promotion chief at Meeker Co.'s tv division, to Blair Television Assoc. 's N. Y. office on sales development staff. Lloyd Heaney appointed to BTA's Chicago office as account executive. TRADE ASSOCIATIONS Bette Doolittle, formerly with P. Ballantine & Sons Newark, N. J., and NARTB, Washington, named director of women's press and radio-tv relations of Grocery Mfrs. of America, N. Y., succeeding Dorothy Mahlstedt resigned. Vincent Patrick Comiskey, sales service representative, NBC, N. Y., appointed to national sales staff of RAB. MANUFACTURING • Frank Folsom, chairman of RCA's executive committee and former president, appointed by Pope Pius XII as permanent representative of Vatican City to new International Atomic Energy Agency. He will represent Vatican at "Atoms-for-Peace" organization's first general conference in Vienna next August. Joseph L. Langevin, formerly systems engineer, RCA Service Co., Tuscon, to facility manager, succeeding H. A. Baldwin, re People "wfr-o know stay at the ^wS/ /exwalchf 3 Minutes from Grand Central Convenient to Fifth Avenue Shopping . . . Theater District All Outside Rooms Radio; Television; Circulating Ice-Water; tub and shower de//*ghtfuUy A** CONDITIONS HOME OF THE FAMOUS 'Hawaiian Room' Known For Authentic Hawaiian Cuisine and Native Entertainment see your local travel agency or write to Promotion Dept. for Brochure 124 Near the // d^*/ # United Nations ^Jp/&f JeXfttOTOtf LEXINGTON AVE. at 48th ST., NEW YORK CITY, 1 7 cently appointed administrator, atomic energy services, Government Service Dept. Fred Steiner, formerly of Convair Div. of General Electronics Corp.. to western sales staff of Sarkes Tarzian Inc., Bloomington, Ind. Richard H. Baker, manager of defense engineering standards and services, RCA, to post of administrator, value engineering of RCA defense electronic products. George A. I. akin, formerly staff project officer, directorate of intelligence and electronic warfare, U. S. Air Force, Rome, N. Y., to Prodelin Inc. (manufacturer of parabolic antennas and transmission lines), Kearny, N. J., technical service engineering staff. K. E. Weitzel, in charge of General Electric Co.'s commercial engineering for tube sales since 1950, appointed regional commercial engineer in Chicago for GE's receiving tube department. PROGRAM SERVICES Darrell Winkler, former owner of Radio Recorders, to Universal Recorders, Hollywood, as vice president-general manager. PROFESSIONAL SERVICES*. . Herb Landon, formerly director of promotion, Kenyon & Eckhardt on Pacific Coast to Rogers & Cowan, L. A., in executive capacity. ~< Clemente Serna Martinez, president general manager, Radio Programas de Mexico, S. A., elected president of Mexico City Sales Executives Club (NSE International affiliate). June Dennis, free lance radio commentator, elected president of Toronto branch of Canadian Women's Press Club. John Verge, formerly of sales staff of National Film Board, Montreal, Que., to Screen Gems (Canada) Ltd., as manager of Montreal office. Hugh Rinehart, production director, WIMATV Lima, Ohio, leaves for 10-week stay in Finland as "goodwill ambassador" as part of project sponsored by The Experiment in International Living. Paul R. Bunker, formerly vice presidentdirector, foreign trade firm of Dodge & Seymour Ltd., named director of administration of Munich office of American Committee for Liberation, succeeding Wilfrid J. Woods. Frank C. Fice, tv production instructor, Ryerson Institute, to Caldwell Lab, Toronto, as sales service chief. Donald Gordon, formerly of Canadian Press, Toronto, Ont., to CBC as London, Eng., correspondent. Alphonse Ouimet, general manager of CBC, to receive honorary doctorate in applied science at U. of Montreal on May 31. Page 106 • June 10, 1957 Broadcasting • Telecasting