Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

6 RADIO DAILY Friday, December 23, 1949 AGENCIES ALBERT R. WHITMAN has resigned as v-p and account supervisor at Benton & Bowles, Inc. to join Campbell-Mithun, Inc. Minneapolis, as executive v-p on February 1. BOWKER & CO., INC., new advertising and public relations organization, has been established in Toledo. Ohio, with offices in the Manhattan Building. W. RODNEY ERICKSON has been appointed manager of Young & Rubicam's radio and television department, Everard W. Meade, v-p of the agency has announced. FOOTE, CONE AND BELDING have established an office in Houston, Texas, to service the Gulf Brewing and Hughes Tool Company accounts. STANWOOD A. MORRILL has been named director of marketing and advertising for Lambert Pharmacal and Pro-phy-lac-tic Brush Co. W. RICHARD GUERSEY has joined the staff of MacManus, John & Adams, Inc. in Baltimore. EDWIN F. COLEMAN . is now with Advertisers Production Services, Inc. in an executive capacity. He was formerly an account manager with Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc. iiiinir ^end i3i r llid ay Cj r § 6 t i 5 ^Jo December 23 Howard Breslin Don McNeill Pinkie Herman John Waters W. A. Stretch, Jr. Jack Lloyd December 24 Jack Alicoate Doris Sharp Dick Crans Naylor Rogers December 25 Matt Brooks Peggy Stone Hon Gamble George Lasker Betty Olson Bob Ripley Gladys Swarthout Josef Stopak Arthur Perles Larry Goddean Herman Katzman December 26 Bernard Dudley Hibbard Ayer Charlie Alicoate December 27 Charlotte Chain Sam Coslow lack Lathan Joseph E. Crenshaw Charles Holland Ralph Smith Oscar Levant Mark Woods Roy Amos Thomas Mary Hutter December 28 Dick Joy Noel McMahon Burr Blanchard McKee William Bohack December 29 George Field Clyde McCoy Wendell Niles Pert Padgett Larry Stevens i n 1 1 » ■ ■ »'» i¥?#»IFiWiTfViV> ill WINDY CITY WORDAGE By HAL TATE • • • Larry Kurtze of the Service Unlimited TV package firm, beaming because his "Second Cup" TV daytimer on WBKB starring linn Burton garnered top honors in a special survey conducted by the local Jay & Graham research firm. . . . Tommy Bartlett. ChlCQCfO s,ar ol NBC's "Welcome Travelers" flew to Montgomery, Alabama over the week-end as guest of the Maxwell Held Air Force base. Tommy was guest of honor and emceed the gala program dedicating the air field's new theater. . . . Chicago's pioneer disc jockey, Norman Ross, beaming over the wonderful preXmas business at his record shop in Evanston. . . . Ben Park's new documentary transcribed show will be released over more than 400 stations by the American Medical Association right after the first of the year. It's a public service program based mainly on Ben's prizewinning "It's Your Life" show. ■fr ft <£r • • • Rosemary Wayne is considering making her TV debut very soon. . . . The fact that Tom Moore got some 200,000 entries on his "Home Made Toy" contest on his MBS "Ladies Be Seated" show, aided him in snaring the Miles Laboratories firm for a sponsor. . . . Harold Isbell recently celebrated his first — and very successful — year on television. . . . Chuck Sebastian is the new prexy of the Chicago Radio Correspondents Association succeeding Charles Ahrens. Chuck is with FM station WFJL while Ahrens is with UP. . . . Other officers elected were: Richard Elliott, WCFL, vice-president; Will Whitney, WGN. secretary; and Sam Paxton, WMBI, treasurer. ... A recent Chicago visitor to the Mutual offices was Don C. Wirth, vice-president and general manager of WNAM, Meenah, Wis. ft ft ft ft • • • The Barthel, Inc. record firm has reorganized with Nick Wayne elected president and Paul Cwik, vice-president. Larry J. Anazaolone is secretary-treasurer. . . . Initial artists signed are singers Johnny Hill and lemme thrush Toni Rami. . . . Jerry Colonna and Sonny Tufts guested this week on Tommy Bartlett's "Welcome Travelers" show. . . . Don Getz, WGN promotion director, recuperating from his recent illness. Don was hospitalized for several weeks. . . . Another hospital case is Norman Felton, NBC television director, who underwent an appendectomy. . . . Oliver Morton, manager of the NBC Central Division national spot sales department, and salesmen Robert Flanigan, Howard Meyers and George Halleman are back from their sales confab at WGY, Schenectady. . . WJJD and WGES disc jockey AI Benson does all his programs from his south side home. ft ft ft ft • • • NBC exec Niles Trammell attended the Ad Council s Directors meeting at the Blackstone Hotel last week. Mr. Trammell said he didn't sign any talent while in Hollywood but he did sign up KFI for another couple years. . . . Friday, December 23rd is a gala day for "The Breakfast Club." It's Emcee Don McNeill's 42nd birthday and the gang will put ion a special Christmas show featuring the appearance of Don's wife, Kay, and their three sons, Tommy, Donnie, and Bobby. . . . Recent ABC visitors were Joe Hartenbower and Dick Evans, general manager and sales executive respectively of KCMO, Kansas City, and Don Searle, ex-v.p. of the network's western division. . . . Many moons ago this column predicted that one of the best radio and TV comedians in town was Cliff Norton. The accolades he's receiving at .the Sherman Hotel's "College Inn" show proves we were right. . . . WMOB's "Press Conference of the Air" getting an excellent reception. Chicago Congressman Sidney R. Yates, who recently returned from Europe, was a recent guest speaker. ft ft ft ft PROmOTION MBS' 'Queen' Contest Mutual is drawing to a close its three-month "Queen of America" contest to select the outstanding clubwomen in the nation and will select the winner from among five semi-finalists on the Jan. 6 "Queen For A Day" program. The promotion idea was based on remarks made in the U. S. Senate by distaff Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine relative to the civic contributions of the nation's clubwomen. Mutual has selected, tieing local affiliated stations into the stunt, one quarter finalist from each station area and will announce their names on the program Dec. 27. On Dec. 30, the semi-finalists, chosen from among the 5,000 station area winners, will be announced. Finale comes when, on the Jan. 6 program, the studio audience picks the winner from among the semifinalists. The clubwoman selected will be cited for her "leadership and civic contribution to her community" and will receive a large jackpot of merchandise prizes. "The Greatest Is Charity" WORZ, Orlando, NBC outlet for central Florida, has a "Toy Terminal" set up on Main Street as a depot to receive contributions of used toys, clothes etc. At regular intervals the American Legion "locomotive" picks up the articles and delivers them to the Orlando Rescue Mission for repair and distribution to needy families this Christmas. Many of WORZ's local programs are scheduled for origination at the "Toy Terminal" and are attracting large crowds interested to see how broadcasters go about the business of helping worthy causes. Wiig Elected President Of N. Y. AP Broadcasters Albany — No curtailment of news services on holidays was voted by the New York State Associated Press Broadcasters' Association at their annual meeting. The AP broadcasters also re-elected Gunnar Wiig of WHEC, Rochester, as president at their one-day session held in the Hotel Ten Eyck. Jim Healey of WOKO, Albany, was named v-p of the group and Norris Paxton, AP Albany bureau chief, secretary. Another recommendation passed was the substitution of Friday's sports broadcasters football consensus by a roundup of major football games. The delegates decided to hold a Monday meeting early in October and have an interim meeting for New York City members in January of the coming year. Bill Meenam of WGY, Schenectady, Tom Brown of WGVA, Geneva, and Bernard Buck of WNYC, New York, were elected directors of the organization.