Week of April 8, 1958

President Eisenhower says unemployment is on the decline, saying some 25,000

more were employed in March.

Strike call fails - A bold rebel uprising is stamped out under police gunfire in

Havana and set off a Batista government counteroffensive that raged through the

night.

Drowned - Dr. Mark Mills, a top atomic physicist and expert in jet propulsion is

killed in a helicopter crash at the atomic test site in the pacific. The helicopter

was forced into the water by a rainsquall off one of the islands in the Eniwetok

Atoll.

President Eisenhower serves notice on Congress, the armed services and

military industries that he will fight to the finish for his Pentagon reforms. “I don’t

care just who is against this thing. It just happens that I have got a little bit more

experience in military organization and the directing of unified forces than anyone

else in the active list.”

The Supreme Court voids denaturalization cases

against Frank Costello and five others, and he

wins citizenship. Costello was accused by the

government in 1953 of having obtained citizenship

through fraud - concealing nonpayment of income

taxes, a conviction for carrying a concealed

weapon and his activities as a bootlegger.

Beck cleansing - Teamsters President James R .

Hoffa announces plans to strip ex Teamsters President Dave Beck of some of

the trappings he acquired while boss. Hoffa said as of the end of this month,

Beck would be stripped of his union free office in Seattle and his union limo. He’s

also considering stripping Beck of his union-bought $160,000

Seattle home that includes a private movie theater. Hoffa also

announced the firing of five union organizers appointed by Beck,

including Dave Beck Jr., Beck’s son; Norman Gessert, Beck’s

nephew and a cousin of Mrs. Beck. The jobs pay up to $20,000

a year. The blows against Beck were the latest in a series that

have him since the senate Rackets Committee charged Beck

with “borrowing” $320,000 union funds and he decided to retire.

Week of April 8, 1958

A Gallup Poll finds school principals feel the successful Sputnik launchings have

sparked thinking in curriculum changes. As critics demand that American schools

do something about the “challenge of Sputnik,” there is evidence that many of the

nation’s high schools are already moving to meet the challenge.

Sports -

Red Sox Vs. Senators - President Eisenhower opens the 1958 baseball season

and throws out the first ball at Washington DC’s Griffith Stadium.

Hollywood News - A

Coroner’s jury rules that

the kitchen knife

stabbing of hoodlum

Johnny Stompanato by

Cheryl Crane (14 and

picture right) was

“justifiable homicide” in

the belief that her

mother, Lana Turner

was in danger.

Entertainment news -

Technicians cripple CBS with a nationwide strike, temporarily cutting off some

live television and radio network programs originating in Hollywood. First to be

affected was Art Linkletter’s program.

Divorce - Actress Esther Williams (34) from Ben Gage, her husband of 12 years.

She testified that she couldn’t keep up with his night owl proclivities.

Tony Awards - “The Music Man” gets best musical in gala

ceremonies at the Waldorf Astoria. “Sunrise at Campobello

receives the award for best play. Helen Hayes gets best

dramatic actress for her role in “Time remembered” and to

Ralph Bellamy as the best dramatic actor for “Sunrise At

Campobello” - the play in which he impersonates the late

President Franklin Roosevelt. Best musical star - Robert

Preston for “The Music Man.”

Wednesday night television -

CBS - Douglas Edwards news, I Love Lucy, Leave It To

Beaver, The Big Record, the Millionaire, I’ve Got A Secret,

Week of April 8, 1958

U.S. Steel Hour

NBC - Huntley-Brinkley news, Wagon Train, Father Knows Best, Swing into

Spring (see ad), This Is Your Life, Code

Three, Jack Paar Show

ABC - Disneyland (see ad), Tombstone

Territory, Ozzie and Harriet, Betty White

Show, Boxing

Big Record - Patti Page welcomes the Will

Martin Trio, Sammy Davis Jr., and Lisa Kirk.

Leave It To Beaver - Financial troubles

complicate a train trip for Wally and the Beav.

Father Knows Best - A neighbor interferes

with Margaret’s plan to widen the driveway.

Jack Paar - Comedian Milt Kamin and

magazine writer Pete Martin.

At the movies

Merry Andrew - Danny Kaye, Pier Angeli

Stage Struck - Henry Fonda, Susan

Strasberg

Witness For The Prosecution - Tyrone

Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton

Run Silent, Run Deep - Clark Cable, Burt

Lancaster

The Young Lions - Marlon Brando,

Montgomery Clift

The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful - Brigitte

Bardot

And God Created Women - Brigitte Bardot