Broadcasting Telecasting (Apr-Jun 1961)

Robinson (now Benton & Bowles Ltd.) in London. Mr. Griffin was vp, Benton & Bowles, N. Y. Arthur Tyler, currently director of media and research unit, B&B, London, named vice chairman, finance and office administration. David Kingsley and Bruce Rhodes, formerly associate directors, B&B, London, named to board of directors. Eugene S. Hallman, vp for programming of Canadian Broadcasting Corp., elected member of board of trustees, Broadcasting Foundation of America. Mr. Hallman formerly served as director of. radio networks and director of radio network programming of CBC. Jerry Gomez named to head Magnum Television International's sales office in Buenos Aires. Mr. Gomez, whose Argentine company, TV Films Distribution, will now exclusively represent Magnum, was formerly handling tv series from ABC Films, 20th Century Fox, and TV Interamericana. Ian Grant, formerly of CHCT-TV Calgary, Alta., and Radio Representatives Ltd., Toronto, Ont., to client service representative of McDonald Research Ltd., Toronto. Michael Hind-Smith, manager of CBLT (TV) Toronto, Ont., to national program director of Canadian Television Network Ltd., that city. DEATHS George S. Fowler, 76, senior vp of Cunningham & Walsh, New York, died June 5 at his home. Mr. Fowler joined Newell-Emmett Co. in 1932, becoming partner in agency which later became Cunningham & Walsh. Kenneth E. Chernin, 41, promotion director for radio-tv division of Triangle Publications Inc., died June 7 in Philadelphia. He has been with Triangle since 1956, serving as radio-tv promotion director since 1957. Herbert C. Lund, 56, vp of Erwin Wasey, Ruthrauff & Ryan, Chicago, died May 27 at Geneva Hospital after sudden heart attack. He had been with agency 17 years, served on such accounts as General Mills, Carey Salt, Quaker Oats, Empress Coffee and Frito. Before that he had been with Knox Reeves Adv. Harold Mitchell, 67, founder of Mitchell Advertising Agency, N. Y., died May 31 in Winston-Salem, N.C. Fred C. Beckwith, 37, national sales manager of KCRA Sacramento, died June 3 following an automobile accident. Jess Kimmel, 46, production manager and director in theatre and tv, Studio City, Calif., died May 31 in his N.Y. apartment. Emile N. Hill, 55, chief engineer for WADO New York, died May 5 of heart attack at his home. Al Pearce, 62, former radio and tv comedian, died June 2 in Newport Beach, Calif. During 1930's, his Elmer Blurt, low-pressure salesman who approached each door with mumbled "Nobody home, I hope, I hope," was among radio's best known characters. J. Harold Ryan, Storer executive, dead at 75 J. Harold director and Broadcasting Ryan, 75, co-founder, senior vp of Storer Co., died June 6 at Miami (Fla.) Heart Institute after brief illness. He had been in semiretirement for several years. Mr. Ryan started business career with Arbuckle-Ryan Co., Toledo, and served as president of firm from 1918 to 1928, when he started long association with George B. Storer. They founded Fort Industry Oil Co., which was re-named Storer Broadcasting in 1952. Mr. Ryan helped build company from single, 50 w station to today's 12 maximum power stations in nine cities. Listed in Who's Who, Mr. Ryan was president of National Assn. of Broadcasters in 1944-45. He was past president of Broadcast Music Inc., and was chairman of Broadcast Measurement Bureau which was formed while he was NAB president. During World War II, Mr. Ryan was assistant director of censorship, in charge of censorship proceedings for all national and international radio broadcasts. A I R OR WATER COOLED 50 KW DUMMY LOADS WATER COOLED AIR COOLED These dummy loads will dissipate the energy of a 50 KW transmitter at 100% modulation. write for details today! CLa-vL±Ln-e-i>L.tcLL MANUFACTURING COMPANY 4212 South Buckner Blvd. Dallas 27, Texas |GT~ SUBSIDIARY OF LING-IEMCO ELECTRONICS, INC. Chuck Read's Piano Playhouse Box 414 • Doylestown • Pa. ON THE SPOT RECORDING jj* I TAPE * • FULLY TRANSISTORIZED • LIFETIME BATTERY • FLAT TO 10,000 CYCLES Where you go. Mini^fotape goes, with its own power and precision recording unit in one compact aluminum case. Sports, crime, special events ... no other recorder can do the job of Minitape. Quality equal to finest ACoperated units. Get all the facts about Minitape today! STANCIL-HOFFMAN CORP. 921 N. Highland Ave. • Hollywood 38, Calif. BROADCASTING, June 12, 1961 91