Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1962)

Kills the Ants Is Coming" on Naked City (ABC-TV): Gary Belkin and Nat Hiken for "I Won't Go'* on Car 54, Where Are You? (NBC-TV); Gordon Russell for "The Forgery*' on Show of the Week (NBC-TV); Arthur Holch for "Walk in My Shoes*" on Close-Up (ABC-TV); and Joseph Mindel for his radio play, "The Hand of Esau" on Eternal Light on NBC. Four Star-Manulis series Four Star Television, which has long expressed an interest in adding theatrical motion pictures to its tv film production schedule, has signed an agreement with Martin Manulis Productions Ltd. for production of several story properties. Already in script form are The Out-ofTowners, a romantic comedy screenplay by Tad Mosel, and Cassandra at the Wedding, an adaptation of a novel by Dorothy Baker. Martin Manulis will produce Four Star's first theatrical venture (see Fates & Fortunes). Powell to drop work on series for season Dick Powell, board chairman of Four Star Television, on the suggestion of his doctor, will not resume work on his tv anthology series, The Dick Powell Show, for the balance of this season. He was to be host for all 30 of the one-hour programs, broadcast Tuesdays, 9:30-10:30 p.m., on NBC-TV, and was to star in every third program. He has completed four of his starring assignments and 14 host spots, and his friends have volunteered to fill in for him for the six programs and 16 host appearances still called for. Stars who have volunteered to stand in for Mr. Powell include Milton Berle, Charles Boyer, Jackie Cooper, Glenn Ford, Rock Hudson, Jack Lemmon, Dean Martin, Steve McQueen, Robert Mitchum, David Niven, Gregory Peck, Frank Sinatra, Robert Taylor, Danny Thomas, Robert Wagner and John Wayne. The decision that Mr. Powell should forego work before the cameras for the immediate future came a week after his release from the hospital where he underwent treatment for muscular spasms that his doctor said had no relation to the cancerous condition for which he has been taking cobalt radiation treatments several months (Broadcasting, Oct. 1 ) . FATES & FORTUNES BROADCAST ADVERTISING Mr. Spiegel Mr. Hirsch James C. Hirsch, national sales director of Television Bureau of Advertising, New York, and Harvey Spiegel, research director, elected vps. Jack B. Weiner, manager of national sales development, promoted to director of pr, succeeding Robert M. Grebe, who joins Sponsor magazine as editor. Robert M. Harris, account executive at Dancer Fitzgerald Sample, New York, elected vp. Jack Buker, executive vp and manager of San Francisco and Portland, Ore., offices of Botsford, Constantine & Gardner, joins Fletcher Richards, Calkins & Holden, San Francisco, as account supervisor. Morton J. Weinstein, formerly with Lewis Adv. Agency, Newark, N. J., joins Sosnow Adv. Agency, that city, as full partner of firm. Agency will be known as Sosnow & Weinstein. Donald B. Douglas, former senior timebuyer with Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample, joins Harrington, Righter & Parsons, New York, station representative, as account executive. E. Holland Low, former sales service representative and administrator of tv cooperative sales for NBC, New York, joins E. J. Hughes Co., Springfield, Mass., advertising agency, as account executive. Recently, Mr. Low was account executive with Springfield Television Broadcasting Co., licensee of WWLP (TV) Springfield, Mass. Rod Dyer, designer at Capitol Records, Los Angeles, joins Carson/Roberts, advertising agency, that city, as art director. ore Service titan a decade of Constructive «Se to $roadcadter5 and the i2roacaslina J^nduslru HOWARD E. STARK Brokers — Consultants 50 EAST 58TH STREET NEW YORK, N. Y. ELDORADO 5-0405 Mr. Salan Morton L. Salan, vp and account supervisor of W. B. Doner & Co., Baltimore advertising agency, joins Kal, Ehrlich & Merrick, Washington, D. C, as vp. Mr. Salan began his career in Baltimore in 1946, later joining Joseph Katz Agency, that city, as copywriter. While with Katz, he advanced to radio-tv director, account executive, account supervisor, and finally vp and general manager. Mr. Salan left Katz to join W. B. Doner & Co. in his present capacity. Charles E. Wilson, former supervisor of consumer research for The Nestle Co., White Plains, N. Y., promoted to manager of marketing research for food manufacturer and distributor. Mr. Wilson joined Nestle organization in 1961 following several years as research executive with Lennen & Newell, Grant Adv. and D'Arcy Adv. He succeeds Jack G. Crockett, who was named special assistant to company's vp-marketing. Carl H. Winston Jr. named pr director of Hoefer, Dietrich & Brown, San Francisco-based advertising agency. THE MEDIA William B. Rohn, director of marketing, Edward Petry & Co., New York, elected vp. Mr. Rohn joined Petry nine years ago as tv sales executive. He also served as general sales manager of WINS New York for five years. William J. Murray, former New York tv sales manager, Crosley Broadcasting Corp., and Cornelius Pugh Jr., tv ac 78 BROADCASTING, December 17, 1962