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RADIO DAILY Monday November 21. 1949 CHICAGO By HAL TATE TONY WEITZEL, Chicago Daily News columnist, began a fiveminute series on WBBM Monday, November 14. The show is heard Monday through Friday from 10: 55 to 11:00 p.m. The new program will present the newswriter with informal stories of people and events in Chicago. Chicago is now more famous for Fran Allison's dragon than for Mrs. O'Leary's cow, points out ABC singer Johnny Thompson. Maestro "Hot Lips" Page proud of his new television set. It doesn't have the biggest picture, but it has the tallest repairman. Four promotions in the production and engineering department of WMOR. Chicago FM, have been announced by president Bernard I. Miller. Jack Pitman, chief announcer, has been upped to assistant program director and Stephen Wood irom continuity editor to program manager. Both men will assist program director Jules Pewowar. Robert Schakne, former PM and INS reporter, has been named acting news director. Frank Goldstein has been upped to assistant chief engineer under David B. Pivan. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Stebbins are the parents of a son, Paul Michael. Mr. Stebbins is a member of the WBBM sales staff. Mrs. Mary Rodenkirch has been promoted from the sales secretarial pool at WGN to the sales promotion department. The Chicago area will soon have its first new AM station in several years. It will be WWCA, 1000-watt station on 1270 kilocycles located in Gary, Indiana. Dee A. Coe is president and general manager. Studios and offices will be located in the Hotel Gary. No plans have been made to date for Chicago studios. No representative has been appointed to date. NAB Sets Bulk Prices For Engineering Book In response to "heavy demand," bulk purchase prices for the NAB Engineering Handbook have been established by the National Association of Broadcasters. Additional copies of the 700-page compendium of information, charts, tables and articles for broadcast engineers may be purchased by member stations and by individuals and firms not eligible for NAB active or associate membership at the following prices: One to nine copies, delivered, $17.50 each; 10 to 20 copies, shipped to one address, $15.00 each; 20 or more copies, shipped to one address, $12.50 each; and 10 or more copies, F.O.B., NAB, Washington, $10 each. Stations eligible for NAB active membership, but not members, and persons or firms eligible for associate membership, but not members, are not eligible for the Handbook. if (in About Manhattan. . . t • • • Vice President Barkley's tribute to radio, TV and the press lor consideration given him and his bride was one of the highlights of ihe NBC-TV coverage of Friday's wedding. . . . The 'veep' was most cooperative and the radio-TV returned the courtesy by doing a dignified, comprehensive reporting job. . . . Watch for a possible deal whereby hooper takes over the operations of Broadcast Measurement Bureau under the supervision of the AAAA. ANA, and NAB. . . . Hooper has been interested for sometime in acquiring the audience measurement organization. . . . Radio and video megaphoners after the rights to Bob Sylvester's coming tome, "Second Oldest Profession," a newspaperman thriller and Bob's third effort. H'wood already has three bids in for it. . . . "Cavalcade of Stars," the Jack Carter Sat. nite TV opus, will also be visible Sundays at 6 over Channel 13 starting Dec. 4th. . . . Engineers studying the acoustics at the Ted Lewis apartment in preparation for projected "At Home" program on TV. . . . Herb Sheldon, whose first b-I film featurette, "You Don't Say," proved a click, will make several other film comedies along the same lines. . . . Jerry Cooper drew plenty o: raves at the Philly opening of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." . . . Ben Gross, Daily News radio ed, will portray himself (which is pretty good casting) on Bob Monroe's "John Steele. Adventurer" over Mutual on the 22nd and WOR on the 28th. ft ft ft ft • • • When Lawrence E. Spivak. the editor-publisher and "Meet the Press" panel expert, was asked what three guests he'd most like to question, he selected Churchill, Stalin and Hirohito. Of Churchill: "Who was responsible for the sell-out of Poland to Stalin?" Of Stalin: "Why don't you trust the Russian people with a free press?" Of Hirohito: "Whose idea was Pearl Harbor, and what did Japan hope to accomplish by it?" ft ft ft ft • • • THEY SAY: Canceling war doubts is more important than war debts — Louis Nizer. . . . The Kaiser-Frazer "Name-the-Car" contest guarantees $100,000 to the Runyon Fund. Please help us find the Canswer! — Walter Winchell. . . . First official fall ratings indicate that the trend is away from radio's giveaways. It's estimated now that the giveaways are good for about another nine months — Cedric Adams. . . . The Government boys continue to be irked at Ed Gardner's legal method for evading income tax (by living in tax-free Puerto Rico). They haven't yet figured out how to collect some of his earnings, but they're still trying — Dorothy Kilgallen. I've worked Jolson up to where he is old enough to play himself — Larry Parks. ft ft ft ft • • • Bill Coffman, director of the EastWest football game; Bernie Bierman of the U. of Minnesota; Tuss McLaughry of Dartmouth and Andy Kerr of Colgate, converging on N. Y. to pick the Eastern team, will make a number of radio and TV appearances over the Nov. 26th week-end. The East-West game, now in its 25th year, has raised nearly two million dollars for Shriners' hospitals. ft ft ft ft • • • OUR HAT'S OFF DEPT: Lisa Kirk's debut on the RCAVictor label with "Charley My Boy," backed by "Shame On You." . . . Sammy Kaye's Sunday Serenade via CBS. . . . Bobby Colt's vocals on WINS. . . . The musical score from Geo. Jessel's latest technicolor job, "Dancing in the Dark," due to open at the Roxy Dec. 2nd. . . . SmithFcley's new song click, "Up in the Balcony." . . . Ted Granik's moderating on "American Forum of the Air." . . . Ralph Young's disc jock & juke box-office click, "Azar," a Star record. AGENCIES JULES KOPP has been appointed chief art director of Erwin, Wasey & Company, Los Angeles, it was announced by Fred M. Jordan, executive vice-president in charge of the agency's West Coast operations. Kopp had formerly been associated with J. Walter Thompson, Campbell-Ewald and other advertising agencies. He also has been consulting art director for the Ford Motor Company. MELCHOR GUZMAN CO., INC., has been appointed by Radio Programas Continental, network of the Republic of Panama, as its U. S. and Canadian representative. STREET & FINNEY, INC. has been named by the Chattanooga Medicine Co., for its Cardui account, effective Jan. 1. THE S. R. LEON CO., INC., has been appointed by Milton L. Ehrlich, Inc., housing development builder. THOMAS O. HOPKINS, formerly with Kenneth Banghart Productions, has joined the radio department of the Branham Co., New York. KASTOR, FARRELL, CHESLEY & CLIFFORD, INC., has signed for National Nielsen Radio Index Class "A" Service. GEORGE M. BURBACH, general manager of KSD and KSD-TV, St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch radio and television properties, has been elected secretary of the Better Business Bureau of St. Louis. New Hooperatings Give CBS Four Leaders The most recent release of Hooperatings gives CBS four of the first five positions, eight of the first ten ratings, and a total of twelve of the first seventeen. The release covers the period of Nov. 1-7. CBS programs in the first four are "Lux Radio Theater," "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts," "Jack Benny," and "My Friend Irma." "Fibber McGee and Molly" took the number five spot for NBC and number six went to ABC for Walter Winchell. CBS took spots seven, eight, and nine with, respectively "Crime Photographer," Bing Crosby (Bob Hope was guest star), and "Suspense." "The Charlie McCarthy Show," CBS, was in position ten. "F.B.I, in Peace and War," CBS, was rated eleventh, and NBC got the nod for twelfth, and thirteenth place with, respectively, Dennis Day. "The Bob Hope Show." "People Are Funny," NBC; "Mr. and Mrs. North," CBS; "Amos and Andy," CBS; and "Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons," CBS, were rated fourteen, fifteen, sixteen and seventeen even though all four had the same rating of 14.7. Of the twelve shows placed by CBS, seven were network packages.