Week of August 1, 1959

President Eisenhower announces that he and Soviet Premier Khrushchev will

exchange official visits this fall with Khrushchev coming to the United States first.

in Siberia and makes a television speech to the Russian

people.

Unprecedented speech - Vice President Richard Nixon in

an address to the Russian people over Soviet radio and

TV, challenges communism to stay within its own

boundaries and to rid itself of the iron curtain and

communicate freely over the rest of the world.

Answer to Nixon - NBC takes steps to offer Soviet Premier

Khrushchev equal time on its network after Vice President Nixon’s speech. He

can record it in Moscow.

Nixon in Poland - A quarter-million turn-out

to cheer Vice President Richard Nixon in

Warsaw. It’s the greatest reception he has

ever received in visits to 60 nations during

his career. He arrived here from a Moscow

flight.

Vice President Nixon returns to Washington

and tells a crowd at National Airport, that the

unprecedented reception he was given in the

Soviet Union and Poland sprang fro the

basic friendship of those peoples for the people of the United States.

Soviet Premier Khrushchev tells a Kremlin news conference that he plans “to talk

peace without saber rattling” in his Washington and Moscow meetings with

President Eisenhower.

The Senate rackets committee charges in a stinging report that Teamster

president James R. Hoffa will destroy the U.S. labor movement unless his power

is checked.

Week of August 1, 1959

President Eisenhower warns that “crooks and racketeers” will take charge unless

Congress enacts effective labor reform legislation. On radio and television. The

President described as a “national disgrace,” labor racketeering disclosed by

congressional investigations.

Sports - The American League defeats the National League in the encore All-

Star game (5-3) - this one played in Los Angeles. The first was played back in

July at Pittsburgh. Yogi Berra wins the most valuable player award.

California, but the local population wants them out. The area

was immortalized by beatnik poet Lawrence Lipton who wrote,

“Venice West may be a lousy slum, but it’s a fine place for

artists to create.” The combination of cheap rent, water and

pleasant weather is unbeatable to these scruffy citizens. Alfred

Roberts, president of the Venice Civic Union, says that since

earlier this year, beatniks have been “pouring into Venice from

everywhere.” One of the favorite beatnik gathering places is

the Gas House - an old bingo parlor on the oceanfront. There, they paint, write,

play chess. The author describes the book as “The first complete story of the

'Beats' - that hip, cool, frantic generation of new bohemians who are turning the

American scale of values inside out."

Irishman in Dublin. Mitchum got beat handedly by the

man, who used Ju Jitusu on him. Mitchum was in the

bar with Richard Harris. Both were in town to film a

movie. A man came up to Mitchum and asked him for

an autograph, “for my wife.” Mitchum took a book from

him, scrawled a message and handed it back. The man

said he didn’t like the message. Mitchum casually lifted

his glass and poured his drink over the Irishman’s head.

Moments later, Mitchum was on the floor.

Passing - Poet Laureate Edgar Guest (77).

Week of August 1, 1959

Sunday night television -

CBS - Twentieth Century, Lassie, Section 315, Ed Sullivan, GE Theater, Alfred

Hitchcock, Richard Diamond, What’s My Line?

NBC - Meet the Press Chet Huntley, Midwestern Hayride, Suspicion, Dragnet,

Chevy Show, Loretta Young

ABC - You Asked For It, Maverick, The Lawman, Colt .45, Deadline for Action,

Meet McGraw

Ed Sullivan - The Platters, Roberta Peters, Shelley Berman, Rickie Layne.

GE Theater - “One Is A Wanderer” with Fred MacMurray. A magazine writer

spends day in a one of the deserted precincts in Los Angeles.

and Gene Sheldon.

Colt .45 - The brother of assassin John Wilkes Booth

visits town and finds everyone turned against him.

At the movies -

The Scapegoat - Sir Alec Guinness, Bette Davis

The Nun’s Story - Audrey Hepburn

North by Northwest - Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint

The Big Fisherman - Howard Keel, Susan Kohner, John Saxon

Last Train From Gun Hill - Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn

The Young Philadelphians - Paul Newman, Barbara Rush

Say One For Me - Bing Crosby, Debbie Reynolds, Robert Wagner

Irwin Allen’s “The Big Circus” - Victor Mature, Red Buttons, Rhonda Fleming,

Kathryn Grant, Vincent Price.