Broadcasting Telecasting (Jan-Mar 1960)

or with live scripts also in the package. Frank Abrahams, former Goodson-Todman Productions writer who left to establish Manhattan, said that sale of the tracing kits could be handled by stations, or through retailers or from New York. More than 10 million were sold at 50' cents during the network run, he said. Manhattan Productions is at 232 E. 79th St., New York 21. (phone Butterfield 8-5106). Tax story available • The prize-wining film by the Internal Revenue Service, Since the Beginning of Time, is now available for telecasting in either color or black and white. The prize was awarded by Film Media magazine. The 27-minute documentary, which relates the behind-the-scenes story of the IRS, is complete with sound, commentary and musical score. Interested stations should contact the District Director of Internal Revenue in their own areas of operation. Sea1 series set • Screen Gems, Hollywood, has entered into a co-production deal with Jana Enterprises for a new series, Sea Rover. It's a creation of Art and Jo Napoleon; Harry Ackerman is executive producer. Etv gets 'Viruses' • The U. of California, with a grant of $109,980 from the National Science Foundation, will make a series of eight half-hour films. The films, designed for educational television and for use in schools, will be called The Nature of Viruses. They will be distributed through the National Educational Television & Radio Center. Production will be handled by etv station KQED (TV) San Francisco. New TCF-TV series 20th Century Fox Television is to produce a new half-hour series, Hong Kong, for ABC-TV. The series will star Rod Taylor. TCF-TV also has completed plans to produce another new tv series with "faith and religion" as the theme. It would use family situations with contemporary religious themes and have a "continuing character." The company also has three pilots for other series to be ready for screening within two weeks. Directors' tv awards Phil Karlson won the top tv film award of Directors Guild of America for his direction of "The Untouchables, Parts 1 and 2." The shows which were filmed by Desilu Productions, with Vincent McEveety as assistant director were later made into a series. Others honored for outstanding tv film directorial achievements during 1959 at DGA's annual awards banquet Feb. 6 were: John Brahm, for "Time Enough at Last" FATES & FORTUNES Broadcast Advertising ford> steers & shenfiew, n. y. Mr. Mathews • David Mathews, director of network programming for Fuller & Smith & Ross, Los Angeles, named vp. He will head agency's west coast tv production which is in midst of great expansion. Mr. Munsell • John V. Doyle, Harold J. Hubert and John W. Clason, account supervisors. Campbell-Ewald Co., Detroit, named vps. Mr. Doyle is supervisor on General Motors institutional advertising, Mr. Hubert on Burroughs Corp. and National Steel Corp. and Mr. Clason on Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. • Wayne Stuart-Bullock and Gene Federico join Benton & Bowles, N.Y., as creative supervisor and art group head, respectively. Mr. Stuart-Bullock formerly was group head at McCannErickson; Mr. Federico was art director with Douglas D. Simon Adv., there. • R. Richard Carens, account supervisor, and Kenneth W. Price, account executive, named vps at Doherty, Clif BROADCASTING, February 29, 1960 • Bill Munsell, vp of Campbell-Mithun, Minneapolis, transfers to Los Angeles office in expansion move. He joined agency in 1958 as account executive. He previously was merchandising manager of Des Moines (Iowa) Register & Tribune. • Brooks Emory, formerly senior vp of Lennon & Newell, joins BBDO, N.Y., as account group head on Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co.'s Bromo-Seltzer account. • Donald Smith, formerly senior account executive at Leo Burnett Co., and advertising and sales promotion director of Crosley-Bendix, appointed executive vp of Consumer Div. of Tobias, O'Neil & Gallay, Chicago. • George Griswold Jr. promoted to director of publications of Bell Telephone Labs, N.Y., AT&T subsidiary. He is in charge of advertising and pr. • Cyrus C. Young, recently research segment of Twilight Zone, filmed by Cayuga Productions with Edward Deanault as assistant; Robert Florey, for "The Innocent Assassin" program of Westinghouse-Desilu Playhouse, filmed by Desilu with Mr. McEveety as assistant; Tay Garnett, for "The Jake Lingle Killing" segment of The Untouchables, filmed by Desilu with Mr. McEveety as assistant; Chris Nyby, for "The Jenny Tannen Story" segment of Wagon Train, filmed by Revue Productions, with Carter DeHaven Jr. as assistant; Don Weis, for "Survival," a program of the General Electric Theatre series, filmed by Revue with Hilton Green as assistant. Radio short-subjects Banner Radio has been formed as a new radio programming division of Banner Films Inc., New York, with Murray Grabhorn appointed sales manager. The new division has a short-subject catalog that can provide programming for radio stations with exclusivity granted in individual markets. The new service has five-minute and one-minute shorts using name talent: Joey Adams and guests, Lou Parker, Titus Moody, Ann Thomas (Maurine the maid), Ken Delmar (Sen. Claghorn) and personalities in sports and other fields. ^ part of Pj While serving a single station market, WTHI-TV fulfills its public service responsibilities in a way that has gained for it the appreciation and support of its entire viewing area ... a circumstance that must be reflected in audience response to advertising carried. Five full y2 hours of local public service programming each week. WTHI-TV CHANNEL 10 CBS • ABC TERRE HAUTE INDIANA Represented Nationally by Boiling Co. 75