Week of April 8, 1956

President Eisenhower viewing the tense

Middle East situation as one of “utmost

seriousness,” declared the United States is

‘determined to support and assist any nation”

subjected to aggression in that area.

The Navy discloses that it is sending four

Mediterranean close by the tinderbox Middle

East.

Israeli and Egyptian jet planes battle over the

Holy land. Israel claimed one and possibly

two enemy planes shot down.

Algiers - Nearly 250- are killed in some of the

bloodiest fighting of the Algerian rebellion

and French Minister Resident Robert

Lacoaste is reported asking for 200,000

more soldiers to put down the revolt.

Five marine recruits drown during training at

Parris Island. The DI is under investigation,

but witnesses say he tried valiantly to save

his men and was the last man alive out of the

tidal stream in which the victims drowned.

Cannon booming, rockets soaring, flowers

showered from the sky and thousands cheer

as Grace Kelly rejoins Prince rainier III and

makes her gala entry into Monte Carlo. She

arrived for her marriage to the Prince next

week.

Record stores are taking orders for the “My Fair Lady” original cast

Week of April 8, 1956

Prince Rainier III decrees that news photographers will be barred from his civil

marriage to Grace Kelly in the throne room of his palace next week. He was

provoked by what both he and Ms. Kelly indicated they considered unmannerly

harassment by the cameramen when they drove to his sister’s villa for lunch.

Rose of WWII - is given permission to

move to San Francisco. She had been

living with her family in Chicago since her

release January 28 from prison.

Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts

calls upon the State department to junk its

policy of neutrality and to speak out boldly

against “imperialism and colonialism

wherever they are found in the world. “We

fight to keep the world free from

Communist imperialism - but in doing so

we hamper our efforts and bring suspicion

upon our motives by being closely linked

with western imperialism.”

Distance Dialing. You’ll be able to dial directly without going through an operator.

All telephone numbers in the country - those of the Bell System, as well as those

of 5000 independent companies - have been or are being gradually changed to

seven digits. In dialing a long distance number direct, the customer will dial the

area code of the area in which the city is located such as 212 for Manhattan or

312 for Chicago, then he dials the number he is calling such as Plaza 2-9944.

Sports -

Entertainment news -

Marry - Eva Gabor to surgeon Dr. John

Williams.

Music news -

Red Foley, who currently hosts the weekly

“Ozark Jubilee” on Saturday nights over ABC-

TV, says the lines between the different types of

music “are beginning to overlap.” “You know, we

Week of April 8, 1956

used to think of country music, or I did anyway as music that told a true story. But

you can’t say that anymore.” Red says it’s hard to tell the difference between

bop, rock-and-roll and country music nowadays.

In Birmingham - An attack by more than 100 white

as he sang at the Municipal Auditorium. Only a few got

through. Cole was shaken up but unhurt when several

white men assaulted him across the footlights while he

was singing before nearly 4000 white persons. They

knocked him off of his piano stool. Six men were

arrested. The singer then did a concert for a Negro

audience since that, no audiences can be mixed.

Marry - Julius la Rosa

and the former

Rosemary Meyer.

Sunday night television -

CBS - Telephone Time, You Are There, Lassie,

What’s My Line?

NBC - Captain Gallant, Meet the Press, Roy

Rogers Show, It’s A Great Life, Frontier, NBC

Comedy Hour, Chevy Show, Loretta Young Show

ABC - You Asked For It, Film Festival, Original

Amateur Hour, Outside U.S.A.

At the movies -

Peck, Jennifer Jones Frederic March

Fleet

Week of April 8, 1956

Week of April 8, 1956

Week of April 8, 1956

Week of April 8, 1956

Chuck Connors Does The Warm-Up Show