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confident that a solution to the war can be “speeded up” if the

United States uses deeds instead of words to “induce” the

communists to want peace.”

Also in New York - President-elect Eisenhower meets with his

“old and respected commander, Gen MacArthur in a conference

they hope will “bear fruit” in settling the Korean War. It was the

first meeting in six years for the pair.

President Truman says he still stands by his earlier statement

that President-elect Eisenhower’s campaign promise to visit

Korea was demagoguery. He also told his news conference he

is not retreating from his position that Gen. Douglas MacArthur

should tell the White House immediately if he has any workable plan for ending

the Korean War.

President Truman defends the foreign policies of his seven years in the White

House and declares they have produced “a situation in which it should be clear to

the Soviet leaders that they cannot gain their objectives by the use of force.”

An Air Force transport plane crashes in Moses Lake, Washington, killing 84

persons, the largest air disaster to date.

Addressing the Freedoms Foundation, President-elect Eisenhower said this

week if American is to be strong “We must be strong first in our spiritual

convictions.” “And those convictions must be those that appeal to men.” “If we

are going to win this fight, we are going to have to go back to the fundamentals. If

we can be strong enough to sell ourselves this idea at home, we can win this

ideological war.”

Diego defeats Joey Maxim for the light-heavyweight

championship in St. Louis.

Hollywood news - Flying to Korea to entertain troops are

Carolina Cotton, Paul Douglas, Jan Sterling, Walter

Pidgeon, Roscoe Ates, Keenan Wynn and Rory Calhoun.

Actress Lana Turner flies to Nevada to get a quickie divorce from Bob Toppling -

charging “extreme mental cruelty.”

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Great Christmas Gift

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roll… CBS-TV will feature a new prime-

show for Kovacs on Tuesday nights - up

against powerhouse Milton Berle on

NBC-TV. He’ll be seen on WCBS-TV

every day starting later this month from

8:30-9:30am. He was previously featured

over the station from 12:45p to 1:30p.

It’s own time slot - The television version

of “Dragnet” starring Jack Webb will now

air each Thursday beginning January 1 on NBC-TV. The program presently

alternates with “Gangbusters” which is leaving the air on Christmas.

More WCBS-TV - New York viewers will get a real treat on Christmas Day, as

Channel 2 will feature Lou and Alice Bunin’s “Alice in Wonderland” feature on

“The Early Show.” It will mark the first time the film, originally produced in France,

has been shown anywhere on television.

Christmas Television -

On Christmas Eve - NBC-TV will broadcast “A Christmas Carol with Malcolm

Keen as Scrooge and a special Christmas show with Ezio Pinza, Jane Pickena at

11:15pm.

CBS-TV - Christmas Eve Festival Service from the Washington National

Cathedral at 11:30pm.

million studios on Manhattan’s East

large new studios and includes 16

“star” dressing rooms, each with its

private washroom and shower.

ABC will change the call letters of

WJZ-TV and radio (New York) to

WABC. The shift is conditional upon

approval of the FCC. WCBS radio

use to use the WABC call letters

and recent audience surveys say

some identity still remains. If

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arrangements can be completed - ABC would like to get the tags of KABC and

KXYZ for its Los Angeles and San Francisco stations. Currently, the KABC call

letters are with a station in San Antonio.

Sunday night

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Thursday night television -

CBS - Heaven For Betsy, Burns and Allen, Four-Star Playhouse, Biff Baker

USA, Big Town, Racket Squad, I’ve Got A Secret

NBC - Dinah Shore, News Caravan, Treasury Man in Action, Dragnet, Play,

Martin Kane-Lee Tracy, Foreign Intrigue

ABC - Greatest Man on Earth, Chance of a Lifetime, Perspective, Valentine

Songs, March of Time, Phil and Ruth

DuMont - Broadway to Hollywood, Trash or Treasure, What’s The Story?

In syndication

Radio news - Morning radio ratings in New

York - Seems that Gene Rayburn’s defect

to WNBC radio hasn’t really affected the

morning ratings at WNEW. Rayburn was

replaced by Gene Klaven at WNEW, stilled

teamed with Dee Finch. The

Finch/Rayburn team scored a 2.9 in the

Pulse ratings - up a tenth of a point from

November. Gene Rayburn at WNBC

scored a 1.7 up slightly from the show he

replaced - Rob and Ray. WCBS’s Jack

Sterling scored a 2.1 from a 2.0 and WOR’s John Gambling gets a 2.6. Overall,

WNEW is in first place, followed by WOR.

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Steve Allen’s CBS radio show is being dropped after January 4.

Music news - Archie Bleyer,

music director of the Arthur

Godfrey shows on CBS, starts his

own record label - Cadence

records. Initial signing is Julius La

Rosa who has appeared on

several Godfrey programs. First

release will be in January.

At the movies -

Coleen Gray

Granger

Brady

Mitchum

Linda Darnell, William Bendix

Hussey

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