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Fox Honors Gehring<br />

For Long Service<br />

NEW YORK—Twentieth Century-Fox celebrated<br />

the week as "Bill Gehring week" in<br />

honor of the 35th anniversary<br />

of the association<br />

of the executive<br />

assistant general sales<br />

manager with the<br />

company. Participating<br />

were the 1.239 employes<br />

in the company's 32<br />

domestic exchanges,<br />

six in Canada and theatres<br />

in both countries.<br />

The climax was a<br />

testimonial dinner<br />

William C. Gehring Thursday (15) at Toots<br />

Shor's restaurant at<br />

which Al Lichtman, distribution director, was<br />

toastmaster and Spyros P. Skouras. president,<br />

praised Gehring before a gathering of 200<br />

executives, department heads and other home<br />

office repre.sentatives. The Rev. Patrick J.<br />

Masterson. executive .secretary of the Legion<br />

of Decency, delivered the invocation.<br />

Among those present were Martin Moskovvitz<br />

New York State division manager; Abe<br />

Dickstein, New York branch manager; C.<br />

Glenn Morris, Atlantic division manager;<br />

Peter Myers, Canadian division manager, and<br />

branch heads Sam Diamond. Philadelphia;<br />

Joseph B. Rosen, Washington; Al Levy, Pittsburgh;<br />

Nat Ro.sen, Albany; Charles B. Kosco,<br />

Buffalo; J. M. Connolly, Boston, and Ben<br />

Simon, New Haven. The local exchange sales<br />

and booking staff also attended.<br />

Speakers Bureau Survey<br />

Started Under Bergman<br />

NEW YORK—Maurice Bergman, Universal-<br />

International director of public relations, has<br />

been named chairman of a Council of Motion<br />

Picture Organizations committee to survey<br />

possible establishment of an industry speakers<br />

bureau. Robert W. Coyne, COMPO special<br />

counsel, reported the appointment, which had<br />

been made by the three COMPO co-chairmen,<br />

Trueman T. Rembusch, Sam Pinanski and<br />

Al Lichtman.<br />

Bergman made a successful two-week<br />

speaking tour of Ohio a year ago for COMPO.<br />

He will now see if tours can be arranged on<br />

a national scale. If that proves to be true,<br />

a pool of speakers will be set up and a list<br />

of dates prepared. Bergman said that many<br />

platforms are available.<br />

"Other industries have made it a policy to<br />

provide speakers for these platforms," he<br />

said. "As a consequence they have been able<br />

to tell their story to those groups of business<br />

and civic leaders who formulate public<br />

opinion. Our neglect of this opportunity is<br />

all the more inexcusable because more than<br />

any other business we have the pei-sonalities<br />

that conventions and other gatherings would<br />

like to hear."<br />

Lippert Gets Two British Films<br />

HOLLYWOOD—T\vo British-made Romu-<br />

productions, "Twilight Women" and "The<br />

lus<br />

Little Big Shot," have been acquired by<br />

Lippert Pictures for U. S. distribution. Both<br />

have been set for spring release.<br />

Help in the March of Dimes drive. Use some<br />

method for audience participation to raise funds.<br />

TKm'

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