Week of December 15, 1951

56 persons are killed in a flaming crash of a Florida-bound nonscheduled airliner

in downtown Elizabeth, NJ. The C-46 narrowly missed a row of frame houses,

smashed into a water company pumping station on the banks of the Elizabeth

River. The plane, operated by Miami Airlines, had just taken off from Newark.

Witnesses say the right engine caught fire.

Prime Minister Churchill and Foreign Secretary Eden arrive in Paris from London

for a tow-day visit which most Europeans believe is a mission to obtain French

support of an omnibus proposition which Churchill will submit to Washington

January 3.

President Truman swings into his clean-up campaign and lays down this rule for

Federal employees: No gifts from people doing business with the government.

has said a final “no” to offers of the Democratic

nomination for President and “yes” to Republicans who

want to put his name before the GOP nominating

convention.

The Pentagon begins releasing the names of 3198

Americans listed by the Communists as alive and held in

prisoner-of-war camps in Korea. Thousands of families

across the nation are anxiously awaiting disclosure of the

full list. On the list - Maj. Gen William F. Dean and AP Photographer Frank Noel.

Dean was last seen near Taejon in July 1950 - a few hours before the city fell to

Britain, says that the administration’s foreign policy has led the

nation to a point where a “pistol shot” anywhere in the western

world could touch of war. Kennedy called upon the United

States to sever far-flung military commitments and think first of

its own welfare instead of “scattering our dollars and our troops

throughout Europe.”

The Korean armistice negotiations slow to a crawl when the allies refuse to

resume negotiations on prisoner of war exchange until they study the Reds’

POW list. Meanwhile, a subcommittee on supervising the armistice made no

progress.

Week of December 15, 1951

Allied staff officers offer to surrender to the Communists all allied-held islands off

of problems blocking a quick truce.

Four miners are known dead and 100 others are trapped in a fire and explosion

in the world’s largest coal shaft mine at West Frankfort, Illinois.

Gov. Warren of California warns that subversives are coming through the

Mexican-U.S. border like “a sieve.” Warren says that anything that could be done

to eliminate the flow of persons across the border should be done “with vigor.”

Entertainment news - Some 70 Hollywood entertainers take

Powers, Johnny Grant took off for Korea-Japan.

For Alaska - Some of the names include Ray Milland,

George Dolenz, Virginia Hall and Vivian Marshall.

Some names for Europe/Africa - Keenan Wynn, Walter

Pidgeon, Debbie Reynolds and Arthur Lowe Jr.

Some names for the Caribbean - Frank Nelson, Pat Moran, Bob Hawk and

Joyce McKenzie.

At a celebration in New York’s Waldorf-Astoria hotel, David Sarnoff, chairman of

the Radio Corporation of America transmits around the world, the letter S in

Morse code in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the first radio signal

sent across the Atlantic Ocean. Mr. Sarnoff also exchanged greetings by radio-

telephone with Marchesa Maria Cristina Marconi, widow of the wireless inventor

and her daughter, Elettra, in Rome.

“Lydia Bailey,” which the magazine’s January issue says glorifies Negro history

for the first time in a major Hollywood film. Ebony also points to one of the

wasted not time in signing him to a seven-year contract.”

Week of December 15, 1951

and they’re taking notice. He applies his native Cuban accent to

an American script on “I Love Lucy” and lets the words fall as

they may. “Desi-isms” that have cropped up on the show -

“Fabrierry (February); dunt (don’t); parment (apartment) and feel

mim (filming).

More television - “Dragnet” - the famous radio show makes its debut in video

version this week. The show was a preview and “Dragnet” will get a regular shift

beginning January 3 on NBC-TV.

Christmas - The U.S. Steel Corporation will sponsor a half-hour adaptation of

Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” on NBC-TV Christmas day at 9pm. Sir Ralph

Richardson is flying in from London to play the role of “Scrooge” Robert Hay

Smith - an 8-year-old English boy will portray Tiny Tim. Also appearing -

Norman Barr and Arthur Treacher.

Week of December 15, 1951

NBC-TV’s “Today” show is about to debut

Week of December 15, 1951

Monday night television -

CBS - Perry Como, Lux Video Theatre, Arthur Godfrey, I Love Lucy, It’s News To

Me, Studio One

NBC - News with John Camaron

Swayze, Paul Winchell-Jerry Mahoney,

Howard Barlow Orchestra, Lights Out,

Blackie

ABC - Hollywood ScreenTest, The

Amazing Mr. Malone, Life Begins At

Eighty, You Asked For It, Stud’s Place

Music - Guy Lombardo receives a gold

record for his cut of “Winter Wonderland” which hit the million sales mark. The

Andrews Sisters, who made the side with Lombardo, received their gold record

several weeks ago.

At the movies -

Farley Granger, Peggy Dow

Wyman

Week of December 15, 1951

Week of December 15, 1951