Variety (October 1954)

44 • ftADIO-TEIJEVISIOY - 1 - - • ----- - - 1 Wednesday, October 6, 1954 T ' 4 4 4 » 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 44 , 4 4 44 . 4- 4 4 4 4 * ♦ y . 4 4 4 4 444444 ♦ ♦♦♦444 4+4-4 liV JVEJF YORK CITY Talent agent Henry C. Brown opehouset. his clients and other broad- cast, gentry at his East End 'apartment Friday (1). His office has taken bn representation of Dolores Sutton, Jack Westoii, Gene Saks, Larry Weber The pnetime literary contact at the N.Y. William. Morris Agency,. Alma Marks, got a five-column picture and story on her home- made cheesecake in the Halo Alto, Gal. News. She’s now Mrs. Mont- gomery Ostrander . Mrs. George Cueto, wife of the Rome repre- sentative of Station. WOV, is currently in Manhattan on a business trip involving an Italo-American tieup. Roger Bowman, NBC announcer, teaching Monday course at NYU called “Music in Radio and Television’' Havls Medwick, ex-Foote, Cone & Belding, to radio-tv dept, of Ruthrauff & Ryan as biz mgr. .... Jay Weston and Anne Gibson to p.r. firm of Milburn McCarty Asso- ciates . . . Voice Of America working , with WNBC-T’s Bill Berns on get-out-the-vote drive launching Oct. 18 . Frank Orth, ex-CBS spot sales, to Campbell-Ewald in Detroit as asst, director of radiortv ... WCBS continuity acceptance dept, scrapped and. functions will be shared by three sectors. Other economies have been effected . . Storrs Haynes, ex-McCann-Erlckson, rejoined Compton agency hs radio- tv v.p. under Lewis Titterton . . . WNBC flaekette Pat Richer on a “back home in Indiana” vacation kick . Antlree Wallace, Kenneth, and Robert Haag, have been added to cast of "Helen Trent” . . . Ralph Camargd', Richard Janaver and Charlta Bauer new to “Just Plain Bill” . . Lester Fletcher new to "Young Widder Brown.” Latter just com- pleted its 16th year. Brioschi Co. planning, a $150,000 spot campaign in and around New York . v . Leslie S. BidWell, former legit producer, takes over radio- tv production chores on WWRL’s “Protestant -Council Spanish Hour” and three “Morning Chapel” programs on WARD for the Protestant' Council of the City of New York . . Doug Browning and John Hicks subbing for Jack Gregson on his early morning WABC segment while he’s in New Orleans remoting'his evening network show, “Just Easy,” from the Yam Festival this week . World-Telegram & Sun columnist Frank Farrell, whose day timer from the Park Sheraton recently went network oh ABC, added a quarter-hour local interview segment On WABC in the Sunday night post-Walter Winchell time. Joey Adams, A1 Kelly and the Burton Sisters are booked for guest shots on WMGM’s Oct. 10 “American-Jewish Caravan of Stars" . ." Irving Berlin turned vocal autobiographer in his appearance last Sunday (3) on Art Ford’s WNEW "Recording Session” . . Madeline Chambers won femme vocalist honors in the seventh anni “Career Performance” trials sponsored by Mutual’s “Chicago, Theatre of the Air,” She’s a grad of .Jiiliard and N.Y.U. . Dr. Eduard van Beinum, conductor of the Concertgebow Orchestra of Amsterdam, to guest tomorrow (Thur.) via Alma Dettinger’s WQXR casing . . Ted and Rhoda Brown and Bill Silbert, WMGM gabbers, to be on hand for promotion marking opening of the Robert Hall 34th Street loft. . Ray Heatherton’s guest lineup for today’s (Wed.) edition of “Luncheon at Sardi’s” includes Sally Forrest, Elliot Nugent; Neva Patterson, Courtney Burr and George Keane. It’s a salute to the “Seven Year Itch” staging. WCBSoundings: Joan Edwards to fortnight in Nassau with Bea Wain; pinch-piping. Jack Sterling and Lanny Ross, latter a Stamford resident, (27,000 STRONG) the to at 133 West 44th Street New York City oh MONDAY, OCTOBER II, 1954 8:30 P.M., to Discuss IN THE INDUSTRY (Simultaneous meetings are being held in Los Angeles. Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis and Cleveland) to launch that..town’s Community Chest drive at a dinner next week (13). Fred Nassif, ex-merchandising mgr. of Galen Drake’s HPLeague,. to station’s sales dept., vyith bis HPL. successor to be named next week. IN CHICAGO Gene DaDan moved up from the Chi NBC accounting department to join the WMAQ-WNBQ ad-promotion staff Evangelist Billy Graham’s “Hour of Decision” renewed on ABC for aifiother year under the sponsorship of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Foundation . . .Sun-' Times reporter Virginia (Duchess) Marmaduke debuts a Sunday night gab session on WMAQ next week . . . Sammy Weinstein reprised his “Ten Pin'Tattler” airer on WCFL for the 20th season . ; . Assistant Chi NBC press Chief»Howard Coleman addressing the Phi Sigma Phi Northwester U. commerce fraternity Friday (8) . . . Howard Miller doing the color on WIND’S airing of the Northwestern football games . WBBM education director Virginia Renaud arid writer Budd Blume cited by the Finnish consul for their report ,on Finland in the “Seventh Continent” documentary series . . . Zenith Radio , public relations chief Ted Leitzell back at his desk after recovery from an emergency appen- dectomy while in New York on biz . . x Herb Kent, Chi NBC mail boy, doubling as a deejay with a half-hour cross-the-boarder on W’GES . . . Proxy John Cunningham of the Cunningham & Walsh ad agency in last week conferring with Ivan Hill; exec veepee of' C&W’s new Chi office which opened for biz Friday (1). IN SAN FRANCISCO . Elaine Doyle now has her own interview show on KVSM, M-F at 10 a.m. ... Pahrump,' Nevada, named Sept. 20 Red Blanchard. Day in honor of the KCBS comic . . Don Condon is the newest member of the KCBS apprentice staff coming from San Francisco State... . . Harry Ackerman, CBS-TV veep in Hollywood, Warren Anderson and Tom Tiilly, leads in the show, Jaline del Valle, producer, Ted Wicks, CBS-TV Hollywood flack and others came up for the .premier of ‘-The Lineup, v new. CBS detective series based on Frisco police cases and shot here. Radio and tv editors, wire. service reps,' columnists and police reporters were hosted at a cocktail party by Arthur Hiill Hayes, CBS Frisco v.p. . . Budd Heyde has a new Sunday morning show, “San Francisco Diary,” consisting of current happenings culled from the local columns . .. “Kingdom of Toys,” a new kiddie tv show, debuted on KRON on the 23d . . Dave Garroway and Kacie Shawhan tip from L.A. for a luncheon With radio eds. IN PHILADELPHIA Lenny Herman’s band, current at Warwick Hotel, will, do CBS net- work shots twice a week , Bill Mercer, young Philadelphia writer, Will run a history Of jazz disk show on WDAS, Sunday nights Manie Sacks, RCA Victor v.p., paid tribute'to KYW’s new^once-a-month series'honoring the record industry^ Show teed off (2) with “The Best of RCA Victor” . .WPEN celebrated 25th anni (Sept. 30) with cock- tail party and buffet dinner for staffers. Celebration honored three employees .who are rounding out 25 years with station—Charles Burtis, Chief engineer and technical advisor, and Thomas Ryan and Richard Shipp, engineers . .. . Harvey Pollack has been named Editor for Phila- delphia edition Of Curtis Publications’ forthcoming mag, TV Program Week. . . Bernice Spector, formerly With WCAU and KYW, has joined the traffic-continuity department at WPEN. IN MINNEAPOLIS Bob Fransen, formerly WEEK-TV, Peoria, program director, named program manager of local KEYD-TV which goes bn air Jan. 1 Neighboring North Dakota got >its first live network tv shows Sunday (26) When WDAY-TV, Fargo, N.D., transmitted a national Sports show to stations in three other towns; Arrangement Was made possible by Construction of a series of microwave towers between Minneapolis and Fargo . Five Twin Cities commercial station and U. of Minne- sota’s KEYD now broadcasting all U. of Minnesota football games play by play and feeding them to a network of 19 other Minnesota stations plus radio outlets in Williston, Jamestown, and Minot, N.D.; Glasgow, Mont., and Fort Francis, Opt., Canada ; . WCCO radio sportscaster Stew MacPherson joined golfdom’s select club in scoring a hole-in-one . WTCN radio and tv tossed an invitation cocktail party for its new'general manager, Joseph L. Merkle who came here from ABC, New York, to assume the post IN OMAHA Power increase for KELO-TV, Sioux Falls, has gone Into effect and is benefiting fringe area reception, Station Manager Evans Nord an- nounced. He added that groundwork for the November changeover to cable reception is proceeding on schedule. . . Rex Barney of Omaha, ex-Brooklyn Dodger pitching has been named general manager of WNTMv Vero Beach, Fla. . . . WOW-TV last Week shoWed film, “The World-Herald Story,” about Omaha’s newspaper while the paper and KFAB scrapped in Washington over the local channel 7 outlet .. . WOW-TV’S tWo-day drive for Red Cross Blood Bank here colllected 476 pints, a record for Douglas, County. Outlet’s studios were trans- ferred into a “blood donor’s center.” Drive was in observance of WOW-TV’s. fifth anni . Lois Carty and .Larry Davis shifted their morning show for housewives to the 9:05-9:30 period on KRNT, Des Moines. Ralph Powers, deejay, fakes over the following 15-minute stanza. IN PITTSBURGH Cal T. Mara, publicity girl at WJAS, Shadyside Hospital for a. Couple of weeks with injuries suffered in an automobile crackup . . . Helen Eastley, secretary to Ed Weggner, program director of WQED, marrying Walter J. Eckert, Jr., golf pro at the Stanton Heights Country Club, on Sat. (9) . . Helen Wayne Rauh, panelist on “Ask the Girls” over WDTV, up and' around .again after undergoing surgery at.-, the, Montefiore Hospital . . Joe Mann and his wife, Elaine Beverly, who are starred on the daily afternoon “Meet Your Neighbor” half-hour on Channel 2, have a January date with. thO stork . . . Paul Shannon, KDKA announcer, and his Wife spent the last Week of their vacation in New York hob-nobbing With a cOuple of old KDKA pals, Dave Garroway and Glenn Riggs. Bobby Sherwood Vice Paul Dixon on DuMont TOdter-comedian Bobby Sher- wood is slated to take over on Oct. 11 for Paul Dixon as emcee of the 3-4 p.m. DuMont, network variety showcase. Shift will last only a month, according to the network, While Dixon recuperates from sur- gery. He’s in Holrfies . hospital, Cincinnati. Sherwood’s month as chief hu- morist on the “Paul Dixon Show,” normally with a Cinci organization, will emanate from New York dur- ing the former’s tenure. Continued from pace 28 had started the tape operation sev- eral months ago when it brought in Alan (Moondog) Freed front Cleveland, with a 90-minute show by tape. Subsequent to that, WINS, N. Y u signed Freed to a longteri pact, so that WNJR can’t use him anymore. However, since WINS will offer Freed in other areas on a» taped basis, Rollins has. signed him,for its Norfolk Negro opera- tion. On the strictly local side, the outlet has Slim Gaillafd as a dee- jay and staff musician, using his group in a couple of shows. Brook- lyn Dodgers pitcher Don New- combe just completed a : summer- time sports show on; the! station, Jocko. Maxwell, the nation’s first Negro Sportscaster, is splitting his time between ^WWRL, N. Y., and WNJR. And, of course, there’s, a regular staff of Negro deejays and announcers. Although anything but music is held at a minimum, sta- tion has a weekly news show with Oliver Butts Brown, publisher of the. Negro New Jersey Herald, and also picks .up the taped “Listening Post,” Baukhage’s program of vet- erans news. There’s also a “Lucky Bucks” contest similar to that in; N. Y. newspapers. Lanphear, who came to the sta- tion after several years as v.p. of United Broadcasting Co., Which operates Negro outlets in Washing- ton, Baltimore, Richmond and Cleveland, says there are two fac- tors working in favor of WNJR. One,, of course, is the fact that it’s the only fulltime Negro operation, in the city. The other is that Rol- lins has conceived a particular ap- proach—that of straight music plus “essentials”—and has stuck to it. A listener can dial the station in the morning and know what to ex- pect all day, Lanphear points Out. “There’s nothing to make him switch his dial.’’ In contrast, he points out, the other Negro Opera- tions in the city for the post part, air foreign-language programs, los- ing their Negro audiences when they comm ence the Italian,. Polish, German, Spanish and Hungarian, shows. Ottawa, Oct. 5. Canadian Broadcasting Corp.’S television web carried an overload of sports Sat, (2). Beginning at 12:45 p.m., CBC-TV scheduled the World Series, followed immediate- ly by a telefilmed coverage of the Big Four football game at Hamil- ton, played during the Series game. Then at 9:30 p.m., the web aired the all-star hockey match from De- troit and at 11:25 wrestling from Marigold arena in Chicago. Hockey show replaced a Lacrosse stanza used every Sat. during the just-shuttered lacrosse Season. 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