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The 1961 (5th annual) maga- zine will be published and distributed on the night of the Annual Awards Dinner.The theme of this year’s Milton

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Jan. 22 — Special Sunday Brunch: Brunch will be served in the main dining room from 12:00 Noon --3:00 p.m. The “‘Smorgasbord’ will be served in the bar from 4:00- 7:00 p.m. Special Drink of the Week on the House (served at Brunch and Smorgasbord) will be Pernod Suis- sesse,an old favorite of the absinthe days (see page 79 of ‘‘Here’s How!”’ OPC bar book). Sponsors: Julius Wile, Inc., importers. Bar will be open from 1:00-8:00 p.m.

Note: Beginning Sun., Jan. 29, Brunch and Smorgasbord will be served together in the bar. Bar will remain ge fie 1:00-8:00 p.m.

Thurs., Jan. 26 — Book Night: De Gaulle and Algeria. Authors Alden Hatch and Edgar S. Furniss, Jr. will be special guests. Modera- tor: Frank Gibney. Panel will in- clude Joe Kraft, OPC award-winner (reporting in Algeria) and French specialist Frank White, asst. mgr., Time-Life International in Paris. Cocktails, 6:30 p.m. Dinner, 7:30 p.m. Discussion, 8:36 p.m. Reserva- tions, please.

Fri., Jan. 27 — Special Bridge Night. Guest will be Mr. B. Jay Becker, bridge columnist for King Features. Cocktails, 6:30. Dinner, 7:30 p.m. (See page 3)

Fri., Feb. to Mon., Feb. 13 = College Editors’ Conference: ‘‘Pres- sure Points on the News Frontier.” Panel discussions Saturday and Sunday for college editors.(See pg. 3)

Sun.,

January 21, 1961

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Annual Awards’ Deadline Set for Feb.25

The OPC ‘‘World Press Center” Annual Awards program got underway this week. John Denson, chairman of the Awards Committee, announced the deadline of Sat., Feb. 25, for entrees. This annual custom carried out over the years is professionally recognized as the nation’s major awards in the coverage and interpretation of world news. It has become one of the principal functions of the World Press Center.

As in previous years, OPC members are encouraged to submit nominating applications for Award,, or to pass along the entry blanks to others who might wish to submit entries. The Club does not require that nominees, or the persons

making the nominations, be members of the OPC. Award nominating blanks — one of

which must accompany each entry in the annual competition — were mailed out on January 17. Additional blanks are avail- able on request to MiSs Mary McNeil at the OPC.

The presentation of plaques and ci- tations will take place at the Club’s Annual Awards Dinner to be held in mid-April. Robert Albert, Newsweek, has been appointed secretary of the Committee.

This year’s awards will cover news- paper, wire service, radio, television, magazine, book and photographic re- porting during the calendar year of 1960

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which have been printed or broadcast in the U.S. The classes of awards are as follows:

Class 1. Best daily newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad.

Class 2. Best radio and/or tele- vision reporting from abroad.

Class 3. Best photographic report- ing (still) from abroad.

Class 4. Best photographic reporting (motion picture) from abroad.

Class 5. Best magazine reporting of foreign affairs.

Class 6. Best interpretation of foreign affairs, daily newspaper or wire service.

Class 7. Best interpretation of for- eign affairs, radio and/or television.

Class 8. Best book on foreign af- fairs.

Class 9. The Ed Stout Award for the best article or report on Latin Amer- ica (any medium).

Class 10. The E.W. Fairchild Award for the best business news reporting from abroad (any medium).

Class 11. The Robert Capa Award superlative photography, still or picture, requiring exceptional

for motion

courage and enterprise abroad.

Class 12. The George Polk Memorial Award for the best reporting, any medium, requiring exceptional courage and enter- prise abroad.

Minister Franz Josef Strauss (center) at last Tuesday’s special press conference. Pictured above with Dr. Strauss are OPC vice president Ansel E. Talbert (left) and Ambassador Wilhelm

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The Fgn Corr Club met to fill va- cancy caused by transfer of pres Al Kaff of UPI to Manila, elected AP ’s Spencer Moosa as pres, MGM’s Newsreel Wong as veep, AFP’s Francis Prause as treas and NCWC’s Fr McGrath as secy. Dave Roads was appointed chrmn of commise now seeking to

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BELGRADE......from JOE PETERS This is the crossroads of stray corrs. No sooner one leaves, another one comes. Any day Richard Harding Davis will show up with ‘Marshal Tito, I presume.’ Bill Rademaekers from Bonn is here now to write a 5000-word piece on the

Yugo economic situation. He also has an assignment to write a piece for Sports- Illust about a unique fish found in Yugo rivers and whose name he didn’t know when he got here. When last seen, he was at the Hotel Metropol busily prepar- ing his fishing expedition with Brailovitch (the Time-Life/UPI man here)..

Like corrs, statesmen constantly drift in and out of Belgrade. Although boring at times, this gives us a chance to gath- er useful background information — and some free meals and drinks. Right now, Sekou Toure, Pres of Guinea is here. The invitation to the official reception for toure read ‘black tie.’ We were all set to get into our tuxedos, when a tele- phone call came from the Fgn Ofc: ‘no tuxedo tonight.’ (Probable reason: the Guineans hadn’t brought any with them.) The half-dozen Russian corrs, appeared in convoy wearing tuxedos — the only ones so attired! Last spring, at a recep- tion for the Belgian Fgn Min ‘cravat noir’ was prescribed and the same Russian corrs arrived in ‘mufti.’

Duke Appointed by Pres-Elect Kennedy

Angier Biddle Duke was appointed State Department Chief of Protocol by President - elect y Kennedy on Wed. Janeli;

Duke served as New York chairman of Ken- nedy’s National- ities Division during the cam- paign. He was Ambassador to ff El Salvador in E 1952-53 and Duke headed refugee work on the Austrian- Hungary border after the Hungarian revolt in 1956. Duke has served as a vice pres- ident of CARE, chairman of the American

Friends of Vietnam and chairman of the |

Africa League.

HECOX RETIRES TO SPAIN

Robert A. Hecox, formerly of NBC and veteran of 22 years in all phases of news gathering, has retired. He is now living in Playa de San Juan, just out- side Alicante, Spain.

Editor This Week Is: Tom Winston Bulletin Committee Chairmen:

Donald Wayne, Jess Gorkin Managing Editor: Lucille G. Pierlot

German Defense Minister : . © Outlines Economic Plan

Addressing an OPC arranged press con- ference Tues., Jan. 17, German Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss offered a A six-point program designed to relieve the ) outflow of dollars from the U.S. and the Vv problem, of U.S. balance of payments. > Questioned at his only N.Y. press a appearance during his 4 day stay, he al- h so defined his country’s position on edu- cation of German youth and called for

t the creation of a ‘‘true Atlantic Com- 5 munity.’’

z The U.S. dollar and balance of pay- d ment program would include: (1) an early

, repayment of post-war debts; (2) addi- | tional advance payments for purchase of 1 military equipment; (3) taking over some U.S. aid to NATO partners, including an d increased German share in the contribu- 0] tions towards NATO; (4) increased use e of existing technical and logistical fac- ) ilities achieving savings for the U.S; d (5) further liberalization measures with- y in the trade policy framework and (6) R West Germany’s financial participation in U.S. projects for development aid. n Strauss assured reporters that his country is prepared to meet U.S. require- ments ‘‘to the greatest possible extent’’.

The Defense Minister, whomThe N.Y. Times described as ‘‘second only to Chancellor Adenauer as a political figure in his homeland,’’ upheld his country’s efforts to educate German youth. ‘‘We have suffered too much in the past,’’ he said, ‘‘not to do everything in our power to wipe out the horrible effects of the Nazi era.’’ He added that Germany, more than‘any other European country is, em- phasizing in its schools the terrors of the Nazi regime. As in the past, he said, Germany will continue in the future to root out and prosecute to the full extent of the law every remnant of the Nazi heritage.

Appealing for greater ‘‘Atlantic con-

sciousness’’, he warned that ‘‘we must

expect the cold war to continue as long j> as there is World Communism, borne by lt the Soviet and Red China with expansive >- | dynamism and revolutionary strength.’’ n | He said that NATO must become a com- e munity which will be able to win the

cold war, taking on positive objectives.

This can be achieved, he said, by broadening the present military alliance to include political and economic pro-

5 grams. He urged closer coordination and f integration among NATO allies, and co- y operation in the fields of technology and

armaments’ industry. George Natanson

LAST OF THE DINNER WINNERS

me The last two Dinner-on-the-House winners were Bert Covit and Jerome Natz. The Friday night special free dinners were discontinued at the end of December.

Overseas Press Bulletin January 21, 1961 Page 3

BECKER SPECIAL GUEST JAN. 27 BRIDGE NIGHT

B. Jay Becker, bridge authority and columnist for King Features, will be guest speaker at the special bridge night program on Fri., peog age i Jan. 27 at the Clubhouse.

Mr. Becker has won 35 na- tional and world championships as well as sectional competitions in the field. In 1952 and 1953 he won world champion- ship matches for

Becker the U.S. against the European leaders, Italy and Sweden. From 1942-47 he was

managing secretary of the Cavendish Club, haven of bridge experts. Currently he is secretary of the Regency Club, and also teaches about 3,000 pupils a year at the Card School.

Competitor Charles Goren wrote of Becker: ‘‘Both as a player and an ana- lyst of the game, I consider him to be in the very first line.’’

The Jan. 27 dinner session should prove very lively and informative for OPC bridge enthusiasts. Wives and guests are cordially invited. It is re- commended that you make your reserva- tions early.

Cocktails, 6:30 p.m. Dinner, 7:30 p.m.

College Ed. Conf. Comm. Names Seminar Chairmen

The theme of this year’s College Editor’s Conference will be ‘‘Pressure Points on the News Frontier,’’ it was announced at a meeting of the Con- ference Committee, held Fri., Jan. 13 at the Clubhouse.

Chairmen for the 5 area seminars are:

(1) USSR — Kathleen McLaughlin and Henry Cassidy.

(2) Latin America — William Gray.

(3) Algeria and North Africa — Hal Lehrman.

(4) Far East — Frank Gibney and Stan Swinton.

(5) Sub-Sahara — James Sheldon.

There was also a discussion of speakers for the luncheon and dinner sessions of the conference which will take place from Friday evening, Feb. 10- 12:00 Noon, Mon., Feb. 13. These names will be announced at a later date.

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East Berlin Party Line...

TO EACH COUNTRY, THE JOURNALISM IT DESERVES

By CURT L. HEYMANN

Berlin, January 1961

How does the mind of an East-Berlin journalist work? ...Nobody in West Ber- lin seemed to know. So I decided to find out for myself. A clandestine meeting with a confrére from beyond the border was arranged in a bierkeller this side of the Brandenburg Gate.

Our first encounter was chilly like the weather. After a beer in the second round, we warmed up and exchanged niceties about Kennedy and Khrushchev. It was only after another beer in the third round that we came to grips and traded blows.

At this point my tape recorder turned furiously. Here’s the play-back.

Q. You have 40 principal dailies in East Germany, a country of 17 million. That’s only one paper for 425,000 people. Do you consider this a sufficient medium of information, comrade?

A. More than sufficient, Herr Kollege. Because ours is a socialist press like Russia’s. And Soviet Russia has only 200 national dailies for 200 million in- habitants — or only one paper for one million people. And the Soviet is 200 times bigger than the German Democratic Republic.

The Press It Deserves

Q. Well, we have almost 2,000 dailies in the United States, but I don’t think a per capita comparison of American papers with what you call ‘‘socialist press’’ would be fair on the basis of quantity. What stupifies me is the quality of your press, its uniform pattern, the perpetual, ever-present party line. i

A. It’s an old truth that each country has the press it deserves. So don’t let’s argue about quality either. The best press is the one that serves its country best. And that’s the socialist press hand- led by socialist journalists.

Q. Now, what exactly makes a social- ist journalist?

A. A socialist journalist is a man who does not consider his job as a means of earning a living but as a service and duty to his people. And he can convey the message of Marxist-Leninist philos- ophy to his people only if he has been trained as a socialist journalist.

Q. And how is he being trained?

A. According to exact government di- rections which have been effective since 1955.

Q. Like Dr. Goebbels’ Reichs Press Chamber?

A. Hardly. You can’t be a practicing journalist in East Germany without being a graduate of the faculty of journalism

from Karl Marx University of Leipzig. The curriculum takes 5 years including practical courses in newspaper offices. After the first 3 years you are allowed to do outside work as an apprentice and continue your studies by correspondence.

Q. How many students of journalism are there every year?

A. Last year there were about 900 — 300 active and 600 correspondence stu- dents. The faculty, according to its im- portance, is quite big. It has 60 teachers — one for about 15 students.

Q. Quite an effort. And what is their college degree when they graduate?

A. Diplom-Journalist.

900 Grads — 40 Papers

Q. Now, when you have 900 graduates and only 40 papers — that’s a bit out of proportion. Can they all get jobs?

A. Not with newspapers. I understand that not all students in your country who graduate from American schools of journ- alism are absorbed by the press either. Quite a few diplom-journalists find it more profitable to do publicity and pro- motion work, like in the USA. The German Democratic Republic needs many trained and skilled publicists to counter attacks by western capitalists.

Q. Ammunition for the cold war, I suppose..,.You’ve got something there. Incidentally, you’ve got something else that’s quite original in journalistic achievement: “‘Volkskorrespondenten’’ — or people’s correspondents. What are they?

A. They are not professional journ- alists but, as their name indicates, press correspondents for the people. They are the link between the press andthe people, reporting on events and developments in their districts and communities, towns, offices. factories.

Ex officio reporters, so-to-speak, but reporters just the same — writing “Letters to the Editor,’’ I presume.

A. I'd say they are semi-official press agents who enjoy the confidence of editors and publishers and are fully protected for the information they render.

Q. Which, of course, includes confi- dential information that’s not always fit to print.... I understand there are quite a number of these agents, some 12,000 to 15,000 who work all over the country. Do they get paid for their jobs?

A. They are not on the payrolls of the papers but get premiums for good re- ports and information.

Q. By whom?

A. By the government.

Q. Then they are government agents! You’ve got a unique system there....

A. But you are mistaken if you think it’s “top secret.” Here is a booklet of the East-Berlin Verband der Deutschen Presse from which I quote: ‘‘The Volks-

korrespondenten are our eyes and ears. They relay to us what the masses of the people feel and desire....They are the stimulants of patriotic mass initiative

fordemocratic construction and planning.”’ |

Available Literature

Q. Thank you very much. Is more | on the functioning of the |

literature East German press available?

A. I would recommend you the Action

Reports of the faculty of journalism in Leipzig, which was previously the Insti- tute for Publicity and Newspaper Science. Now, its dean, Prof. Budzislawski, has published a number of booklets on the tasks and functions of socialist journal- ism. Q. That’s all on the academic side. Aren’t there any political publications available that give practical directives and instructions?

A. Of course. The action and propa- ganda division of the central committee of the SED* has published Perspektiv- plaene, perspective plans which give de- tailed directives to the press on the treatment of specific questions. These instructions will be of special interest to you since they outline, among other things, how to deal with capitalists and monopolist exploitations of the working class in the United States.

Servants of the People

Q. That should be very informative.

A. One more hint for your enlighten- ment: Last year, SED party secretary Albert Norden published a pamphlet in which he demanded East German jour- nalists not to relent their efforts as “servants of the people’’ and ‘‘state functionaries.” He even suggested they abandon moderation and become more aggressive.

A. So I can tell....Now, one more question and a final beer. What would become of a socialist journalist in your country who would deviate from the party line?

A. He wouldn’t be a socialist journa- list.

Q. Here’s to your system, comrade.

A. Here’s to yours, Herr Kollege.

* Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands — East Germany’s unified Communist party.

Curt L. Heymann, OPC member based in Paris and covering western

Europe, is on a fact-finding assign- ment ‘‘Along the Iron Curtain.”

THE CUBAN ‘DEGREE’ FOR U.S. JOURNALISTS

“You haven’t any prestige unless you have been jailed,’’ was the good- natured complaint of Jack Begon, ABC, when he returned from doing a radio-TV round-up on the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba. (Begon reports that Lt. Comm. James Lloyd is exceptionally well-or- ganized and cooperative in helping newsmen around the base.)

James Sheldon (left) and Dorothy Omansky

reet Wilson Hall, recently released from uban jail, at Tues, Jan.17 reception given in his honor.

But not all recipients of what Begon calls the ‘‘Cuban degree’’ in journalism were quite so good natured about their new prestige. One CBSer described the Cuban jails as ‘‘dark and smelly.’’ Frank Beatty of UPI-Miami spent 3 nights on a concrete floor in a room with 30 Cubans, sleeping ‘‘in shifts, and sideways.’’ For the other 2 nights Beatty slept on bed springs because the bare springs were more comfortable than the bed-bug-ridden mattress.

Beatty was arrested for taking pic- tures of the Cuban National Capitol Building, although he had received per- mission to take them from the guards on duty. The OPC Freedom of the Press Committee sent a cable, signed by Pres- ident Luter, to Premier Fidel Castro re- questing the prompt release of Beatty. The cable may have been partly respon- sible for his release. Beatty joined his wife in Miami.

Other Arrests

CBS reported that Bernard Eismann, Chicago, Robert Schakne, New York, Bruce Washington, were held in jail overnight, along with Time-Life’s Norman Ritter and Paul Schutzer. The next day, all 6 were put on a plane with Embassy people leaving the country.

The newsmen reported that they were treated properly during 8 sessions of in- terrogations.

Dick Valeriani of AP was arrested last week, but was released a few hours later with no charges. Valeriani was al- lowed to remain, along with fellow APers Harold Milks and Robert Berrellez. George Kaufman, AP Havana, and his wife were

Hoertel and Andrew Willoner,:

Overseas Press Bulletin January 21, 1961 Page 5

held in jail for 5 days before being re- leased Jan. 5. Kaufman says he was asked no questions, only to sign a re- lease stating that ‘‘the charges imputed have not been proved.’’

Throughout his ‘‘56 hour and 10 min- ute’? imprisonment, Wilson Hall, NBC, reported he was asked no questions. Treated with courtesy, the only orders he received were ‘‘sit down’’ — “‘stand up” — ‘‘don’t ask questions!”’

Commenting on the cable sent by the OPC to the Cuban Government on his be- half, Hall thanked the Freedom of the Press Committee and urged the Club to “keep up the good work. It is a great thing to know you aren’t forgotten when you’re in a fix like that. A jail cell can get to be mighty lonesome,” he said.

Situation Unclear

The visa situation was unclear as the Bulletin went to press. An entry per- mit is now required to enter Cuba, and at least one newsman, Max Frankel, NY Times, was refused a reentry visa.

Wilson Hall, plans a return to Havana to join his wife, Lee (also NBC), but so far has met with no success with his visa request from the Czechoslovakian Embassy in Washington.

NY Times’ Ruby Hart Phillips, CBS’ Frank Donghi, Ernie Leiser and camera- man Cal Marlin remain in Cuba.

Durand Dies at 39

Lionel Durand, chief of Newsweek’s Paris bureau, died in his sleep Jan. 14, at his 30 Rue Desaix home, at the age of 39.

Durand had been suffering from the effects of tear gas, inhaled while cov- ering the riots in Algeria early Dec. According to his doctor, he had appar- ently suffered a heart attack.

Born in Port au Prince, Durand was educated at the Sorbonne, at Heidelberg and Oxford (Trinity). He was a member of the French resistance during World War II and was twice captured, escaping both times. He came to America in 1943 to head the French section of Voice of America. From z 1945-48 he served as New York and UN bureau chief for Paris Presse, then returned to Paris as its foreign editor. In 1956 he joined Newsweek as a staff correspond- ent in Paris and became bureau

Durand

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Important Reminder

The House Operations Committee would like to call the members’ attention to 2 long-standing rules that recently have been violated fre- quently — often to the embarrassment of those concerned:

(1) Members must be with their guests in the Clubhouse at all times. Guests meeting members at the Club and arriving early must wait in the lobby.

(2) Only those members having credit cards are allowed to sign food and bar checks. Credit cards must be shown when signing checks.

ORDER OF MERIT FOR CAMPBELL

Roy Bernard’s Charlie Campbell was decorated by the German govern- ment last Tues., Jan. 17, for ‘ʻa decade of aid as a press and information con- sultant.” He received the Order of Merit from Ambassador Wilhelm Grewe.

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SPRINGTIME IN PARIS OPC CHARTER FLIGHT

Winter is here — time to think of Spring! There is good news for pro- crastinating members or those who have vacation plans to make. Madeline D. Ross, chairman of Work Tours and Charter Travel, reports that: ‘‘Mild attrition has just set in,’’ making 12 seats available for the first OPC Charter Flight which leaves Idlewild for Paris on Fri., May 19 and returns from London onSun.,June 18.

The hours of arrival and departure are not available at this time. Tourist space and first-class amenities, such as free bar service, hot food and flight bags, will be provided on a Pan Am DCC?

Pan Am will play host to the travelers before they leave, and Curt Heymann has arranged a cocktail round-up with Paris OPCers on Mon., May 22, from 6:00-8:00 p.m., at the Hotel Crillon.

Members from 12 states, besides New York, are represented in the roster of subscribers. OPCers wishing to join the trip are asked to send checks, made out to OPC-Charter Flight, in the amount of $275 for each reservation. If the flight leaves with every seat taken, there will be a pro-rated refund on this payment.

FAIR REPS HEAD EAST

The World’s Fair 1964-65 Corporation this month has appointed three more committees, headed by OPCers, to visit foreign government officials and invite participation in the world exhibition.

Bill Berns, vice president and com- munications director for the Fair, left last Wednesday for a month through the Mideast; Ben Grauer and William Laurence head up the Far East committee trip from Jan. 20-Feb. 23; while Club pres- ident John Luter covers the Near East area from Feb. 23 - Mar. 25.

Wergeles’ Dateline Cover Wins Another Award

EdWergeles’ cover photo of the OPC’s 1960 Dateline has been selected as ‘‘Out- standing’’ in the field of editorial design in an art contest sponsored by the Jour- nal of Commercial Art. The cover was a strikingly apt photograph of President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Khrush- chev and the OPC symbol, two globes drawn by Clyde Magill. Ed’s entry was one of six commended by the judges in the editorial design category.

THANKS TO MEMBERS

The House Operations Committee

wishes to thank those members who contributed to the 1960 Christmas bonus fund for OPC employees — the largest such collection in the Club’s history.

The entire amount was distributed to the Club’s employees during the holiday.

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATIONS ACTIVE

ERNEST CONINE— McGraw-Hill World News, Moscow since Jan. ’60 (Washington1955/59);

Dallas Times Herald 1952/55 (Washington); UPI 1948/51 (Dallas, "Tex.). Proposed by John Wilhelm; seconded by Margaret Ralston.

SHIRLEY KENDRICK — McGraw-Hill World News (London 1956/59). Proposed by John Wilhelm; seconded by Margaret Ralston.

LESLIE LIEBER — This Week Magazine. AFN 1945/46 (Paris, London, Berlin); N.Y. Times 1936/37 (Paris). Proposed by Ben Wright; seconded by Arthur Goldsmith.

NORMAN SKLAREWITZ — CBS Tokyo since ’57. Pacific Stars & Stripes 1956/59. Pro- posed by Peter Kalischer; seconded by Gene Kramer.

ERNIE WEATHERALL — Stars & Stripes, Berlin since 1957. Proposed by John B. Fleming; seconded by Aline Mosby.

ASSOCIATE

BEN AMES — UPI 1934/42 (Europe, Middle- East, Africa), Proposed by Martin A, Bursten; seconded by Harold K. Whitford.

JOHN C. DELVIN — N.Y. Times. Proposed by Oliver Gramling; seconded by Frank C. Wachsmith.

LEO DOLAN — UPI 1926/44. Proposed by Joseph Willicombe, Jr.; seconded by Bob Considine.

HERMAN EHRENREICH — Jewish Daily Forward since 1922, Proposed by Leon Dennen; seconded by Walter L.Kirschenbaum,

EDWARD HANNA (Mortimore E. Blumberg) — WCBS Radio. Proposed by Charles J. Roberts; seconded by Kenneth H. Hacker.

SOL HORENSTEIN — WBAB. Proposed by N. R. Caine; seconded by Columbia Rossi;

J. EDWARD KLEIN — The Philadelphia Inqui- rer 1936/42 & 1945/55, Proposed by Geo. A. McDonald; seconded by Henry E. Littlehales.

LAWRENCE L. KLINGMAN — UPI 1948/53. Philadelphia Inquirer 1946/47 (Paris). Pro- posed by Bob Considine; seconded by John Luter.

MEL LAZARUS — N.Y. Herald Tribune. Proposed by Harry Welker, Jr.; seconded by John Luter,

JOHN MEREDITH PATTERSON — CBS News. Proposed by John F. Day; seconded by Sally Sheppard.

ARTHUR A. RILEY — Boston Globe since 1942, Proposed by Richard E. Fiske; sec- onded by Ed Cunningham.

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PEOPLE & PLACES

TRAVELING: Richard Joseph left for Honolulu, HongKong, Macao & Taiwan for Esquire and his weekly newspaper column. Joseph was recently announced winner of the Pacific Travel Writing Award by the Pacific Area Travel Assn. for his coverage in the Aug. ’60 Esquire .. . -Unlikely meeting of 2 OPCers: Henry Shapiro (UPI-Moscow) Ray Josephs (long- time LatAm based) at Dorado Beach Hotel, Puerto Rico — both taking time out between assignments. ...Alfred Wagg, author & film producer, is currently on location in the U.A.R., completing a 26-min documentary film on Egyptian- American Rural Improvement Service. Most recent of his many U.A.R.-made films, ‘‘Modern Egypt’’ (covering Suez Canal, Aswan, Mahalla & Cairo), is scheduled for release soon.,...Elaine Shepard left last week for Amsterdam, London, Leopoldville, Cairo, Beirut, Bagdad, Teheran, Saudi Arabia, Laos, Tokyo, Manila & HongKong. Journey will comprise last third of her book now ‘in the works’’....

PUBLICATIONS: Tom Mahoney has article on miniaturization in Jan. Ameri- can Legion mag....Feb. issue of HiFi/ Stereo Review will carry a story by J. David Bowen on ‘‘far-out’’ composer Harry Partch, (8 years a hobo, now teach- ing music at U. of Illinois). Bowen is now ‘‘far-out’’ too — in Ecuador & Peru for Vision & Travel....New book by Dick Hyman, “It’s Still the Law,” illus- trated by Otto Soglow, will be published in April....Benjamin Fine, NANA, will have his book, ‘‘How to be Accepted by the College of Your Choice,’’ syndicated by Bell Syndicate & NANA for 7 daily installments starting Feb. 6....Three surveys covering newspaper publishers’ listing of top 10 daily newspapers, here & abroad, will soon be issued by Edward L. Bernays, Counsel on Public Relations. (The criteria for judgment in ranking follow ideals set forth by Joseph Pu-

litzer, NYWorld; Adolph S. Ochs, NY- Times; and Thomas Gibson, Rocky Mt.Herald.)

RADIO: Ruth K. Hill’s WEVD ‘‘City Reporter’’ resumed Jan 12 with Robert St. John on ‘‘Nasser & the Middle East,” following her Caribbean holiday vaca- tion. ...Capt. Paul A. Atrochin has been assigned radio-TV dir for the Recruiting Publicity Center, turning out transcribed shows for Army & Air Force recruiting & re-enlistment purposes here and over- seas....

NEW POSITIONS: Martin S. Fliesler has been appointed vp & dir of advertis- ing for WOR-Radio & WOR-TV....Forma- tion of Glynn Organization - PR (with offices at 33 E. 39, NYC) has been an-

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nounced by Joseph E. Glynn, exec dir. Glynn has been nat’] PR chief for the American Legion in NYC since 1951, and was former PR dir for Biltmore, Barclay & Park Lane Hotels....Travel ed Horace Sutton has been named an associate ed of Saturday Review.... Roger A. Valdes, who joined OPC in Havana last year while corr for Fair- child Publications (NY) and The London Times, has joined the PR staff of West- inghouse Internat’l in NY.,.. Art Foley, former trade ed for ABC Radio & TV, and an acc’t exec with Biderman, Tolk & Associates, has been named vp for sales & promotion for newly-formed Tele- venture, Inc., Internat’1 TV & film pro- duction company....Radio Press Inter- nat’) NY ed Irv Chapman will head up new RPI Washington buo (hg at 20 E St., Wash. 1, D.C.) on Feb 1 when new service opens....Lester Ziffren, Santiago, Chile, who was dir of PR for Braden Copper Co., Chilean subsidiary of Kennecott Copper Corp., has been named dir of PR for Kennecott with NY as his hq. He is being succeeded by Richard Dyer, former PR dir for United Fruit Co., Tropical Division....John Storm, cur- rently ed for the Ford Almanac, has also taken over editorship & entire production of Ford Farming.... Walton M. Rock, press relations, American Oil Co., NY, took similar job in firm’s new Chicago hq on Jan. 3.

FREE BOOKS TO FOREIGN LEADERS

Harold L. Oram’s PR firm has under- taken a Freedom House Bookshelf pro- gram for the purpose of distributing writings of American spokesmen of free- dom to leaders in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

If any OPCers can provide names and addresses of friends in these areas who would be interested in receiving the 10- volume Bookshelf, the firm will ship the books free of charge to the names sub- mitted.

The set includes: Alexander Hamil- ton, Selections, — edited by Bower Aly; The Writings of Jefferson — edited by Saul Padover; The Justice Holmes Reader — edited by Julius J. Marke; The Wood- row Wilson Reader — edited by Frances Farmer; American Heritage Reader — edited by Bruce Catton; History of Amer- ican Philosophy — by Herbert W. Schnei- der; America in Perspective — edited by Henry Steele Commager; The U.S. Poli- tical System — by David C. Coyle; Docu- mentary History of the U.S. — edited by Richard D. Heffner; and The Democratic Way of Life — by T.V. Smith & E.C. Lindeman.

There is a limited number of sets. Please send applications as soon as possible to the Freedom House Bookshelf, Harold L. Oram, Inc., 8 West 40th Street, New York 18, N.Y.

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102 major Public Libraries in America purchased one or more copies of his four serious films on foreign affairs:

RUSSIA, JAPAN, THE MIDDLE EAST and SOUTH AMERICA, during 1959-1960.

This breaks all existing records of such purchases by public libraries.

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