Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1962)

Tv, movie writers weigh international affiliation A joint resolution was adopted last week by the Writers Guild of America and its British counterpart, the Screen Writers Guild of the United Kingdom, calling for affiliation of the two unions which have members in the fields of television and motion pictures. The resolution was passed at the close of a series of three-day meetings in New York, ending last Monday (Nov. 12). WGA National Chairman David Davidson reported that during the affiliation meetings, joint policy and action were agreed upon in the areas of contracts, negotiations and policy in television and motion pictures; pay television; relationship with other organizations, international and domestic; script awards; relations with agents; censorship; pension and market information. Mr. Davidson said that WGA agreed to "support and implement the demands and actions" of the overseas group in its coming negotiations with British tv film producers. He added that affiliation talks are in progress with writers' organizations in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, South Africa, Eire, Ghana, Nigeria and Northern and Southern Rhodesia. Wallace Advertising folds Wallace Adv. Ltd., Halifax, N. S., has made a voluntary assignment in bankruptcy with liabilities of $50,034. The agency had billings of about $480,000, had been in business about 58 years. The accounts have been taken over by James Lovick & Co. Ltd., Vancouver, B. C, advertising agency with offices across Canada. 'Casey' overseas sales: 25 ABC Films Inc., New York, overseas distributor of the Ben Casey series, last week announced the sale of the first year's production in the series (32 one-hour dramas) to 25 major overseas markets. The current ABC-TV pro gram is produced by Bing Crosby Productions Inc. The countries signed are the Philippines, Australia, England, Scotland, Japan, Lebanon, Finland, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, Spain, Portugal, Canada, Argentina, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatamala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, Puerto Rico and Venezuela. Montreux tv dates set Invitations to participate in the third Montreux International Television Festival, to be held April 29-May 4, 1963, have been extended to associates of the European Broadcasting Union. The U. S. members are ABC-TV, CBS-TV, NBC-TV, National Assn. of Educational Broadcasters, United States Information Agency and National Educational Radio and Television Center. The annual contest is intended to create new forms of light entertainment programs and to promote the international exchange of program material. FATES & FORTUNES BROADCAST ADVERTISING Mr. Caravatt Mr. Beecher Mr. Milliken George N. Beecher, Paul J. Caravatt Jr. and George G. Milliken, vps of Foote, Cone & Belding, New York, appointed management representatives. Mr. Beecher will be responsible for General Foods account; Mr. Caravatt for Menley & James and Mr. Milliken for Lever Bros, and Angostura-Wuppermann. John S. Rosen, vp and director of Raymond Rosen & Co., and Sheldon Scharfberg, firm's advertising and sales promotion manager, elected chairman and executive vp, respectively, of Firestone-Rosen Inc., which will be new name of Philadelphia office of W. B. Doner & Co., effective Jan. 1, 1963. Philadelphia firm will maintain ties with Doner offices in Detroit, Chicago and Baltimore, Murray Firestone, president, said. Richard C. Moses, former executive vp in charge of Los Angeles office of Donahue & Coe and most recently di rector of corporate pr for Times-Mirror Co., joins McCann-Erickson, Los Angeles, as vp. From 1954 to 1958, Mr. Moses served as account supervisor in Los Angeles office of Erwin Wasey, Ruthrauff & Ryan. Leslie Wallwork, broadcast media buyer in M-E's Los Angeles office, promoted to supervisor of broadcast media. William J. F. Brennan, vp and manager of Los Angeles radio and tv programming department of Compton Adv., appointed vp and assistant to Lewis Titterton, senior vp and director of programming for Compton in New York. Bertrand Mulligan continues as vp and manager of department. Ted Roberton, program director in Compton's Los Angeles office, succeeds Mr. Brennan as manager of department in that city. Nella Manes, vp and media director of Kal, Ehrlich & Merrick, Washington, D. C, advertising agency, assumes added duties of assistant to Alvin Q. Ehrlich, agency's executive vp. Other executive promotions at KE&M: Harry L. Merrick Jr., Charles Smith, David Thomas and Don Vogel, elected vps; Mrs. Ann Goldstein to timebuyer; Ramsey Perry to retail copy chief, and Hertha Hanu to radio traffic director. Mrs. Manes joined agency as timebuyer in 1949. She served as media director and was elected vp four months ago. Mr. Mer Mrs. Manes rick, account executive, joined KE&M in 1948. Messrs. Smith and Vogel, account executives, both joined agency in 1953. Mr. Thomas, most recently radiotv director, joined KE&M in 1946. Henry Kornhauser, account executive in drug department of Kastor Hilton Chesley Clifford & Atherton, New York, elected vp. Arthur T. Castillo, senior account executive at Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell & Bayles, joins Ted Bates & Co., New York, as vp and account supervisor. Mr. Castillo was with Colgate-Palmolive Co. before joining SSC&B. Mr. Castillo Raymond Welch, account executive with Briggs Corp., manufacturer of lawn mower motors, joins Kenyon & Eckhardt, Detroit, in similar capacity. Walter M. Vetter, formerly in program production at NBC-TV, named director of member sales presentations for Television Bureau of Advertising, New York. Tom Hollingshead, former supervisor on General Mills account at Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample, joins Richard K. Manoff Inc., New York advertising agency, as media supervisor. Stanton L. Vogin, member of promotion staff of Food Fair Inc., joins Philadelphia advertising agency of Bauer-Tripp-Foley as assistant to Roy L. Silver, vp for merchandising. 100 BROADCASTING, November 19, 1962