Week of April 8, 1957

Saudi Arabia announces it will not let Israeli

shipping pass through the Gulf of Aqaba .

Foreign ships carrying cargo to and from the

Israeli port of Eilat now are using the gulf.

Saudi Arabia does not consider it an open

waterway.

Freezing savings of thousands - The Soviet

government plans to stop interest and

freeze repayment of principal for 20 to 25 years on 260 billion rubles in state

bonds bought by Soviet citizens. The total debt is $65 billion. The bonds are held

by Soviet wage and salary earners and collective farmers who bought them with

payroll deductions averaging from 6 to 8 ½ % over the last two decades or more.

In telling the freeze at a meeting of 60,000 workers, Premier Khrushchev said

western capitalists would never understand the soul of the Soviet people. “They

will never believe you are doing this of your own free will.” When questioned by

Western journalists, some Soviet people welcomed the move because

discontinuance of the loans will have the effect of increasing their yearly incomes

by the month’s pay they previously contributed to the state.

Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower gives a spring luncheon for Senator’s wives and

includes Mrs. Joseph McCarthy, wife of the Wisconsin senator, who was

snubbed at formal White House affairs earlier this year.

In Paris for a visit - Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, for a three-day state visit.

Post Office closed - Saturday

mail deliveries are cancelled this

week and the nation’s post

offices ordered closed for the

weekend, despite approval of

extra postal operating funds by

the House Appropriations

Committee. Postmaster

General Summerfield declared

that all reductions in service he

announced last week, after the House committee refused to grant a $47 million

deficiency request would be effective immediately. The committee approved a

$41 million appropriation in the expectation that normal services would continue.

Week of April 8, 1957

Teen advice - Syndicated columnist

Dorothy Ricker has a new booklet -

“How to Change Your Date Fate”

which covers questions on dating

behavior. One piece of advice - it’s

better for the girl to go to the door, if

possible, when her date arrives,

especially if the boy does not know the rest of her family very well. Also, a kiss is

an expression of affection and should be reserved for that special boy whom the

girl likes and knows well.

Cost of newspapers going up. In New York - the World-Telegram & Sun,

Journal-American and the Post - went from 5 to 10 cents during the past month.

The Daily News and Daily Mirror increased from 4 to 5 cents.

Entertainment news

Marilyn Monroe , also the president and sole asset of Marilyn

Monroe Productions Inc., breaks away from her vice-president,

Milton Greene. They teamed two years ago to promote

Marilyn’s fortunes at a time when she was at odds with her

studio 20 th -Century Fox. She accused Greene of

mismanagement. Problem is, he says he has a seven-year

contract and a 49.6% take. Said Green, “It seems Marilyn

doesn’t want to go ahead with the program we planned. I’m

getting lawyers to represent me… I don’t want to do anything

now to hurt her career.” One expectation is that Greene was to

be named as executive producer of “The Prince and the Showgirl,” Marilyn’s

recent film, which was made in England with Sir Laurence Olivier.

Marilyn says, “As president of the corporation and its only source of income, I

was never informed that he had elected himself to the position of executive

producer of ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’ and secretly signed contracts to that

effect. My company was not formed to provide false credits for its officers and I

will not become party to this.”

Continues the actress - “The company was not set up merely to parcel out

49.6% of all my earnings to Mr. Greene for seven years. My company was

formed because I wanted to make better pictures, improve my work, secure my

income and help others to make good pictures. Instead, I have had to defend my

aims, my interests and conditions of work against the demands of Mr. Greene

himself.”

Week of April 8, 1957

Passing - Caren Lynn (Sande) Crabbe - 20-year-old daughter of actor and

former Olympic Games Swimming Champion Buster Crabbe. She apparently

died of malnutrition brought on by an emotional disturbance (later to be called

anorexia).

This Week on CBS-TV

Television news -

Jackie Gleason says he is leaving his weekly CBS-TV program. This has been

the rumor for some time, but it’s his decision, not the networks.

Arthur Godfrey is dropping his Wednesday night “Talent Scouts” CBS-TV show

on June 26. He says it’s just too much work and his other program “Arthur

Godfrey Time” will remain on TV and radio. He says that show requires very little

preparation.

Week of April 8, 1957

Wednesday night television -

CBS - Douglas Edwards with the news,

Giant Step, Arthur Godfrey, The

Millionaire, I’ve Got A Secret, U.S. Steel

Hour

NBC - Xavier Cugat, Huntley-Brinkley

news, Masquerade party, Hall of Fame,

This Is Your Life, The Vise, Tonight with

Jack Lescoulie

ABC - Disneyland, The Navy Log, Ozzie

and Harriet, Ford Theatre, Boxing

Disneyland - “People of the Desert” - a

pictorial report on the Navajo Indian and

the Blue men of Morocco.

The Millionaire - An airport waitress gets

a check from Michael Anthony.

Boxing - Featherweights Isidro Martinez

and Davey Moore.

Sunday

Night