Week of April 30, 1959

Sir Winston Churchill begins a four-day reunion

with President Eisenhower in Washington.

Churchill tells spectators upon his arrival: “I shall

not say as most people who travel around the

world seem to do - which is to say everything that

they think.”

Tass announces that Nikita Khrushchev is

awarded a Lenin Peace Prize for 1958. Another

winner included an American “Negro,” William

Dubois, 91 year-old editor and writer of Brooklyn. Of Khrushchev, the agency

said “his activities in favor of peace personified most fully and strikingly the

peaceable policy of the Soviet socialist state...”

Doctors declined commenting on whether Godfrey’s

smoking habit contributed to the cancer. Some medical

findings have linked smoking to cancer. From general

figures of the American Cancer Society, his chances of

making it are 25 (up to) 50 to 1 against him.

The first woman is sentenced to die in front of a firing

squad in Cuba as an informer for ousted dictator

Fulgencio Batista. Testimony by her ex-husband, nailed-

down the case for the prosecutor. Dr Olga Herrero

Marcos, a Cuban schoolteacher was convicted of

informing on the whereabouts of three members of

Castro’s movement, who were hiding out and subsequently killed by Batista

police 5 years ago.

Jerry Lee Lewis will take another crack at touring in England this September, this

time, without his 13 year-old child-wife. In his last attempt, the British called

Lewis a “cradle snatcher” and his contract was cancelled.

youth rally because of what she considered a “small

crowd.” Ball agreed to appear at a Kiwanis Club youth rally

against juvenile delinquency at the 12,000 seat Taft

stadium. Ball remained in her air-conditioned Cadillac while

the show went on. According to Ball, “only 325 appeared in

a stadium built to seat 14,000... I’ve played to 13 people in

Week of April 30, 1959

a dugout... But when they don’t care enough to publicize the affair, it’s high time

they stopped asking people to go thousands of miles to perform.”

and acting contract with Warner Brothers. Stevens was the

first artist to sign on the new Warner Brothers record label last

year. Her contract begins at $300 to $1,200 a week in seven

years.

year in the first Grammy awards. Among the

26 awards handed out - album of the year and best arrangement

went to Henry Mancini for “Peter Gunn.” Ross Bagdasarian (aka

David Seville) received three Grammies for “The Chipmunk

Song”: best comedy performance, best engineered record other

than classical and best recording for children.

“Tequilla” by the Champs receives the best rhythm and blues

performance.

Best country & western performance went to “Tom Dooley,” The Kingston Trio.

Other winners include Stan Freberg, Count Basie’s Band, Billy May, Ella

Fitzgerald; the “Gigi” and “The Music Man Soundtracks.”

to Britain and says he is finished with the

whole business of monsters and maniac

murderers. “After half a century in the

United States, one feels a little out of

touch.”

At the mart - stewing chickens (whole

bodied) -25 cents a pound and (cut-up) -

27 cents a pound. Rib steaks - 89 cents

a pound... Onions - 5 cents a pound...

Apples - 3 pounds for 25 cents.

Week of April 30, 1959

Jack Lemmon sings and plays music on

the Epic LP “Some Like It Hot” - just

$3.98.

This Friday night at 7:30 on ABC (Leave

It To Beaver), Beaver buys a sweater

and learns that it is actually a girl’s

sweater, which nearly gives him a

complex.

Also on Friday, Lloyd Nolan stars as a

secret agent in the premiere of SA-7, 10p

on NBC.

Premiering at the movies - Yul Brynner,

Joanne Woodward, Margaret Leighton

and Stuart Whitman in “The Sound and

the Fury.” Still playing - Marilyn Monroe,

Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in “Some

Like It Hot” - now in its fourth week.

Paul Douglas in “The Mating Game,”

Deborah Kerr, Rossano Brazzi and

Maurice Chevalier in “Count Your

Blessings.”

Happy Organ” - Dave ‘Baby” Cortez, “Come Softly To Me” - The Fleetwoods,

“Sorry (I Ran All The Way Home)” - Impalas, (Now And Then There’s) A Fool

Such As I” - Elvis Presley, “Kookie, Kooke (Lend Me Your Comb)” - Ed Byrnes &

Connie Stevens, “I Need Your Love Tonight” - Elvis Presley, “Guitar Boogie