Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1957)
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National Representatives PETERS, GRIFFIN, WOODWARD, INC.
Page 100 • December 16, 1957
Martin H. Percival, manager, John E. Pearson Co., S. F., to McGavren-Quinn Co., N. Y., as eastern sales representative.
TESTIMONIALS poured in for James D. Shouse (r), chairman of the board of Crosley Broadcasting Corp., and Robert E. Dunville, president, at the anniversary banquet given them last month at company headquarters in Cincinnati. Associates and employes reviewed highlights of the partnership begun in 1937, when Mr. Shouse joined Crosley as vice president in charge of broadcasting and was joined the same year by Mr. Dunville, who came as his assistant. Management and talent of Crosley stations (WLWWLWT [TV] Cincinnati, WLWD [TV] Dayton and WLWC [TV] Columbus, all Ohio; WLWA [TV] Atlanta and WLWI [TV]) participated in the tribute to the 20-year team.
Chick Hearn, sportscaster, KRCA (TV) Los Angeles, promoted to sports director.
Jack Munley, formerly sports director of KFH Wichita, Kan., to KTVH (TV) same city, in similar capacity.
Al Shore, sales manager, KSWO-AM-TV Lawton, Okla., to KVTV (TV) Sioux City, Iowa, as account executive.
Alfred Di Giovanni, formerly sales account executive with DuMont, to WPIX (TV) New York as sales account executive.
Perry Andrews, host of Lone Star Dance Party, KLIF Dallas, to WBAL Baltimore as disc jockey.
Ann Hoins Sturgeon joins WHLI Hempstead, L. I., continuity department.
Burt Toppan, promotion manager, WTVJ (TV) Miami, and Bettye Spitler, WTVJ credit department, married Dec. 7.
Edwin C. Schmirter, charter member and former chief photographer of WWLP (TV) Springfield, Mass., died Nov. 26.
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Alan J. Bell, at one time news writer and assistant producer for WORL Boston and most recently special projects writer with Army Pictorial Service in N. Y., to Peters Griffin, Woodward, as assistant radio promotion-research director.
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Mary Dornheim, former copy writer and associate producer with Dr. Frances Horwich of Ding Dong School, to Arthur J. Daly, N. Y., tv-radio-film service, in similar capacity.
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■< Robert C. Bickel, regional manager of midAtlantic states territory, Andrew Corp., Chicago, promoted to sales manager. He has been with Andrew for 10 years in various engineering, field sales administrative positions.
Donald R. Kingdon, sales specialist in receiving tube department of GE at Owensboro, Ky., named district sales manager for receiving tubes and other components sold through distributors.
K. O. Pritzlaff, in various electronic posts for seven years, appointed west coast sales engineering manager for vacuum tube products of IT&T, Components Div., Nutley, N. J., headquartering in Santa Monica, Calif.
Irving K. Kessler, formerly vice president of John B. Stetson Co., to RCA Defense Electronic Products as manager of management engineering.
Basil M. Goldsmith, 49, material control manager of Allen B. DuMont Labs industrial tube division and credited in 1938 with helping build first DuMont electronic tv receivers at firm's Passaic plant, died Dec. 6.
TRADE ASSNS.
Jack Johnstone, partner in Guerin, Johnstone & Jeffries, Los Angeles, elected to board of directors of Western States Advertising Agencies Assn.
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Frances Inglis, executive director, Writers Guild of America, West, resigns. She will continue to represent guild in current negotiations with agents and in forthcoming negotiations with major film studios.
INTERNATIONAL
Bruce Cormack, account supervisor, Goldberg Adv., Sydney, Australia, to S. W. Caldwell Ltd., Toronto, as copy supervisor.
Hugh Delaney, salesman, CKCK Regina, Sask., transfers to CKCK-TV in similar capacity.
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