Week of April 1, 1955

Dr. John C. Treacy, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Notre Dame

University is killed when a building used for rocket fuel experiments explodes.

More than 35 persons are injured when a New York Central passenger train

slams into a rockslide about 15 mile south of Albany. Ten cars and two diesel

units were derailed.

Guadalajara. Nine cars of a passenger train packed with holy week holidayers

drop into a 600ft abyss. As many as 300 are believed dead.

At this regular call at Buckingham Palace

and under the weight of his 80 years, Sir

Winston Churchill steps down as Britain’s

Prime Minister, still flashing his victory sign.

In his audience with Queen Elizabeth II, she

offered him “Dukedom” but he refused. He

had been a “House of Commons man” for

almost 50 years, he pointed out.

President Eisenhower tells Sir Winston

Churchill indirectly that, “the free world yet

has much to gain” form “your great

experience, you great wisdom and your great courage.”

Crowd looks on - Choking back tears, Winston Churchill walks out of 10 Downing

Street for the final time. He look for a moment as if he were going to speak but

then he blinked his tear-swollen eyes and slowly raised a long brown cigar to his

trembling lips.

In Queens - Four cocksure bandits pull history’s biggest cash bank holdup (to

date), getting $305,243 in cash.

was last seen at a public function in Moscow.

Seems Tass is keeping mum on the subject.

Meantime the hydrogen bomb emerges as the real

reason for the conflict between the Soviet leaders

and the downfall of former Premier Georgi

Malenkov. The future of the deposed Premier

looks dimmer than ever as Russian experts read a

Week of April 1, 1955

violent attack on Malenkov’s ideology published in the latest issue of Komunist,

the theoretical magazine of the central committee of the Communist Party.

Medical - Polio vaccine victory should come April 12, when a national report is

unveiled.

publisher of the Chicago Tribune. He was 75.

Passing Joseph Pulitzer - editor and publisher of the St.

Louis Post-Dispatch, he was 70.

Sports - Jackie Robinson the dodgers’ veteran Negro

infielder, gets miffed when he is held out of an exhibition

game and his rival, Don Haok, was put on third. Jackie told

a newspaperman that he was ‘fit” and should be playing “and (Walt) Alston

knows it.”

Entertainment news -

Failure to appear in traffic court - a warrant is put for the arrest of Marilyn

Monroe.

Singer Snooky Lanson of Hit parade says he’ll keep his nickname. His real name

is Roy, but the ambitious Tennessen has no intention and says he’ll keep his

Dixie drawl.

Singer Mario Lanza scheduled nightclub debut in Las Vegas doesn’t happen as

he fails to appear. It was to be at the new Venus Theater Restaurant.

criticizing her salary. She says it is not true, that

she wanted exorbitant pay to wear a tattered

dress and ride on a donkey for the third film in a

row. “I was just tired of acting with this donkey”

said the Italian starlet. Producer Gofferdo

Lombardo instead hires rival Sophia Loren to fill

the tattered dress and ride the battered donkey

in “Bread, Love and Nostalgia.” Unfair!” cried

Gina.

Week of April 1, 1955

Television news -

The DuMont network has been gradually curtailing their airtime the last few

months. Next week, it will be down to six hours per week.

Radio news - DJ Fred Robbins will begin a new CBS radio network program on

April 26 title “Disk Derby.” The program will have a studio audience and gusts will

be asked to suggest the records they want to hear and to vote for the one they

like best at the end of the program. In addition to records, the Norman Paris Trio

also will be featured on the show.

Perry Como is moving from CBS to NBC. He’ll leave CBS on July 1 to star in an

hour-long program for the fall.

Week of April 1, 1955

Monday Night Television -

CBS - Douglas Edwards news, Perry Como, Burns and Allen, Talent Scouts, I

Love Lucy, December Bride, Studio One

NBC - News Caravan, Tony Martin, Producer’s Showcase, Robert Montgomery

Show, Big Town, Tonight

ABC - Name’s The Same, TV Reader’s Digest, Firestone, Biff Baker USA.

At the movies -

Wilding

Meeker

Week of April 1, 1955