Monday, Apr. 21, 1947

Winners

This week, 14 George Foster Peabody Awards (radio's annual "Oscars") were handed out. The chief winners: ABC's Comic Henry Morgan, CBS's Columbia Workshop, NBC's Orchestras of the Nation and CBS's Invitation to Music, Mutual's Meet the Press, ABC's broadcast of John Hersey's Hiroshima, the New York Herald Tribune's radio columnist, John Crosby. Awards for "outstanding reporting and interpretation of the news" went to Commentator William L. Shirer and the Columbia Broadcasting System--which recently (TIME, March 31) dropped Shirer's program.

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