Airborne Oscars

The winners of the eleventh annual Peabody Awards, announced in Manhattan this week: *

RADIO

REPORTING: Elmer Davis (ABC), for the third time, and Hear It Now (CBS), for its "brilliant" use of tape recording in summarizing the week's news.

DRAMA: Halls of Ivy (NBC), with Ronald Colman.

Music: Metropolitan Opera broadcasts (ABC), and Manhattan's FM station WABF "for making it possible to hear hour upon hour of the finest in fine music."

EDUCATION: The Quick and the Dead (NBC) for "dwelling on the good as well as the evil that lies in the conquest of nuclear energy."

INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING: citations to 1) Radio Free Europe; 2) Manhattan's municipal station WNYC for its broadcasts of U.N. proceedings; 3) Mutual Broadcasting System and United Nations Radio, for a series on international problems, The Pursuit of Peace.

PUBLIC SERVICE: Chicago's station WBBM for documentaries on race relations, and Louisville's FM station WFPL for its Free Public Library program.

TELEVISION

ENTERTAINMENT: Jimmy Durante (NBC) for his "warmth, sincerity and wholehearted joy in what he is doing . . ."

EDUCATION : Johns Hopkins Science Review (Du Mont) because it is "convincing proof that learning need not be dull."

CHILDREN'S PROGRAM: Zoo Parade (NBC) and Saturday at the Zoo (ABC), for being "informative and remarkably entertaining."

Special awards went to ABC for "the network's courageous stand in resisting organized pressure" during the Gypsy Rose Lee-Red Channels controversy (TIME, Sept. 25), and to the Providence Journal for a "most exacting, thorough and readable checkup of broadcasts by Walter Winchell, Drew Pearson and Fulton Lewis Jr.," which concluded that they were either inaccurate, misleading or inclined to emotionalism.

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