The winners of the 13th Annual Peabody Awards, announced in Manhattan this week:
RADIO
NEWS: ABC's Martin Agronsky, whose ability in "getting the story behind the story is distinctive."
Music: a double award, to CBS's New York Philharmonic and to NBC's regional Standard Symphony broadcast (and recently telecast) to eleven Western states.
PUBLIC SERVICE: Columbia (S.C.) station WIS, for the "promotion of international understanding" with its series, The United Nations Needs You.
TELEVISION
EDUCATION : Du Mont's The Johns Hopkins Science Review, for programs presented "with candor, a scientific attitude and a high degree of visual imagination."
ENTERTAINMENT: a double award, to NBC's Mister Peepers ("Wally Cox . . . is a genuinely funny man") and to NBC's Your Hit Parade ("consistent good taste . . . and technical perfection").
CHILDREN: NBC's Ding Dong School, because it is "simple, sincere, and unpretentious."
NEWS: NBC's Meet the Press, because it "makes news as well as reports it."
DOCUMENTARY: NBC's Victory at Sea, for "26 superb programs dramatizing the heroism and sacrifice in the great naval engagements of World War II."
PUBLIC SERVICE: Cleveland's station WEWS, for cooperating with the city's varied racial, religious and economic groups in televising "more than 700 formal community service programs."