Broadcasting Telecasting (Jul-Sep 1962)

FATES & FORTUNES Mrs. Ayres BROADCAST ADVERTISING Mary Ayres elected senior vp of Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell & Bayles, New York. Mrs. Ayres is management supervisor on Noxzema Chemical Co. account. Regina Owens joins SSCB's creative department in New York office as copywriter. Charles C. Ramsey, president of Phillips-Ramsey Inc., San Diego advertising and pr agency, elected chairman of board of governors of Transamerica Advertising Agency Network. Snowden M. Hunt Jr., vp of Wade Adv., Los Angeles, named manager of that office. He succeeds Paul McCluer, who will continue as Wade's executive vp on West Coast. Mr. Hunt joined Los Angeles office in 1951; he was promoted to vp in 1955. Edward B. Shaw appointed supervisor on Hunt-Wesson Oil account of Young & Rubicam, Los Angeles, replacing James C. Armstrong, vp in charge of Y&R's Los Angeles office. Thomas J. Mack, radio-tv production WITHIN A STONE'S THROW . OF COMMUNICATIONS ROW! 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Elliot Harris, former member of marketing planning staff of Benton & Bowles, joins Advertising Research Foundation, New York. Gene Del Bianco joins account management group of Hoag & Provandie, Boston advertising agency. Richard C. Beeson, group product manager for ColgatePalmolive's Wildroot men's line and Halo hair care products, named group product manager for oral products in company's toilet-articles division. He will be responsible for all phases of advertising, merchandising, sales and packaging of products. Robert Zane Smith, McCann-Erickson, joins Ketchum, MacLeod & Grove, New York, as creative account executive. Dennis F. Shanahan joins Robert S. Taplinger Assoc., Los Angeles, as account executive. Daphne King, former senior writer at J. Walter Thompson, joins copy department of Norman, Craig & Kummel, New York. Austin Heywood, who resigned last month as promotion and publicity director of CBS-owned KNXT (TV) Los Angeles, joins Davis, Johnson, Mogul & Colombatto Adv., that city, as publicity director and executive on agency's KCOP (TV) Los Angeles account. Stanley T. Cohen, Tim Howley, Jefferson W. McGrath and Emily S. Howaid join Foote, Cone & Belding, Chicago, as copywriters. Mr. Cohen formerly was with J. Walter Thompson Co., New York; Mr. Howley, previously was with MacManus John & Adams, Minneapolis; Mr. McGrath was with Mr. Heywood Young & Rubicam, New York, and Miss Howald is graduate of U. of Illinois. Steve Miller, head of his own Beverly Hills advertising agency, joins Enyart & Rose Adv., Los Angeles, as pr director and account executive. THE MEDIA r. Douglas 66 Mr. Browning Lee Browning, vp and general manager of WFIE-TV Evansville, Ind., named general manager of WFRV (TV) Green Bay, Wis., effective Sept. 15, succeeding E. Berry Smith, who resigned, effective that date, to join Marine Capital Corp., small business investment firm, Milwaukee, in broadcast executive function. WFRV (TV) Green Bay and WFIE-TV Evansville are owned by George W. Norton, along with WAVE-AM-TV Louisville, Ky. Jack E. Douglas, vp and general manager of WCSI-AM-FM Columbus, Ind., has resigned to join WFIE-TV, effective Aug. 1, as general manager replacing Mr. Browning. Dick Schofield, general manager of KFOX-AM-FM Long Beach, and Walter Conway, general manager of KDIA Oakland (The Sonderling Stations), both California, elected vps of respective stations. Dick Oppenheimer, vp of Eastern Broadcasting Corp. and general manager of WHAP Hopewell, Va., named general manager of WALT Tampa, Fla., which was recently purchased by Eastern (Broadcasting, March 19). Bob Grossman, operations manager of WXEX-TV Richmond, and Bill Truitt, formerly with WINA Charlottesville, both Virginia, join WALT as assistant manager and news director, respectively. Bill Winters and Diane Johns, members of WHAP staff, to WALT as air personality and account executive, respectively. Del Raycee, program manager of WDEE-AM-FM Hamden, Conn., promoted to general manager. Jack Hale named sales manager of WCPO-AM-FM-TV Cincinnati. Bill Dawes, program director of WCPO BROADCASTING, July 23, 1962