Week of August 15, 1953

Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlevi flees the country with his Queen after a palace

coup to overthrow Premier Mossedigh collapses.

North Korea proclaims the end of a state of war and calls off military mobilization

as the exchange of prisoners nears its halfway mark.

The Soviet government announces that it has exploded a hydrogen bomb that

set off a “thermonuclear reaction of great force.”

Moscow’s announcement that Russia has exploded a hydrogen bomb sparks

urgent demands from Congress for both stronger defenses and renewed efforts

at stripping such devastating weapons from the world’s arsenals.

Despite the many Soviet peace feelers from the Kremlin

government, that attitude of the average American toward

Russia’s intentions has not changed - some 79% still

distrust Russia.

The Department of Commerce says that the average

individual income rose 5% last year.

Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll

are putting together a version of their

“Amos ‘n’ Andy” for nightclubs and

theatres. Alvin Childress, Tim Moore and

Spencer Williams will play Amos, Andy

and the Kingfish, respectively. The all-

Negro show is slated to go into

production some time after Labor Day.

Television news -

Will TV reruns help or hurt? - Bob

Cummings has briefly discontinued making his successful “My Hero” TV show

until he sees whether syndicated reruns of the shows help or hinder him with

audiences, both in TV and movies.

Week of August 15, 1953

Staying in New York - Jackie Gleason will not be moving his show to Hollywood.

Although Gleason was not adverse in making the movie, cast member Art

Carney was one of several who didn’t want to move.

ABC-TV swipes a show from rival DuMont - the Dottie Mack show. But DuMont

gets back by nabbing “Chance of a Lifetime” with Old Gold cigarettes as a

sponsor.

Week of August 15, 1953

Saturday night television -

CBS - Beat the Clock, Larry Storch Show, Two for the Money, Meet Millie,

Medallion Theatre, It’s News To Me

NBC - My Son Jeep, Sammy Kaye Show, Original Amateur Hour, Saturday

Night Revue, Private Secretary

ABC - Boxing

It’s News To Me - with John Daley

Music news -

Week of August 15, 1953

single “A Purple Cow.” Plans for the promotion of a

new ice cream soda tagged “A Purple Cow Soda”

are being prepped.

Adloph Stanley Levey of Philadelphia, the

drummer for Stan Kenton is fined $200 on a dope

charge.

Decca Records, following the Korean truce, releases “There ‘s Peace In Korea”

with Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

Columbia says it has sold some 30,000 “360” phonographs. The mono players

uses an additional speaker to achieve a binaural effect, even with obsolete and

old records.

David Kapp leaves RCA Victor records. Will he start his own label?

Saturday Night On CBS-TV

Week of August 15, 1953

Radio news -

Crosley Broadcasting Corp. sells New York radio station WINS to a trio

consisting of broadcasters J. Elroy McGaw and Jack Keating and theatre circuit

executive Charles Skouras for $450,000. McGaw and Keating have wide radio

Week of August 15, 1953

and TV interests in the Pacific Northwest and in Hawaii. McGaw also owns KYA

San Francisco and has an interest in Denver’s KLZ-Am and KLZ-TV.

Lancaster

Walt Disney’s The Sword

and the Rose

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Williams

Grayson