Week of February 1, 1952

This week, Americans have been in the Korean War as long as they were in

Word War I.

making his 25 year-old daughter Elizabeth the

Queen of Britain. Recently he had appeared haggard

and appeared to be in his usual health when he

retired the night before.

Chubby three year-old Prince Charles, upon the

death of his grandfather, is now heir apparent to the

British throne.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill broadcasts a tribute to the late King George VI.

The fifteen-minute broadcast was heard on most of the CBS, NBC, ABC and

Mutual affiliated radio stations in the United States.

The Senate passes a bill setting a maximum fine of $2000 and five years in

prison for smuggling wetbacks into the country or concealing them once you get

them over the boarder. American farmers who hire “wetbacks” for harvest are not

subject to the penalty. The measure covers any aliens who enter the U.S.A

illegally.

The AFL International Ladies Garment Workers Union will close down the last of

its FM radio stations - WFDR (104.3) in New York next week. “We have found it

impossible to get public acceptance of FM as a separate unit, where it is not

combined with AM broadcasting.” The union owned two other FM stations-

Chattanooga, TN and Los Angeles.

movies and on radio is held in a Long Beach, CA court

on an old bench warrant for failure to pay a $500

judgment arising from a yacht collision.

A specially constructed watch is returned to Helen

Keller by a pawn broker. The watch was lost last month

in a taxicab in New York. The watch’s construction

enabled the deaf and blind author to tell time.

In London, grocer Richard Purdy, who likes to display

the names of customers who owe him money in his store window, arrives to find

a gallon of paint slung over the window. Pudy thinks it’s the work of one of his

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debtors.

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A Chicago clothing industry leader says the leopard skin

suit will be in for men this year. “The cut of the suit still is

the same, but the latest thing in color is really terrific -

leopard skin.”

In sports - Joe Dimaggio heir apparent Mickey Mantle (20),

signs again with the Yanks.

Admiral TV’s now come with a built-in standard broadcast

radio. From $199 to $519.

At the mart - Pillsbury Pie Crust Mix - .19 ... Kellogg’s

Sugar Pops - 4 1/2oz pkg - .15 ... Campbells Tomato Soup

- 3 (10 1/2oz) cans - .29 ... Center Cut Chuck Roas - .65lb

At the drug store - Whitman’s - 2lb box of chocolates -

$2.20 ... One-A-Day multiple vitamins - btl of 60 - $1.96 ...

Thursday night TV includes - Dinah Shore, Douglas

Edwards, Groucho Marx, Burns & Allen, Person To

Squad, Gene Autry Show.

Top rated radio show Ozzie & Harriet will become a TV

show by this fall. The same formula will continue for TV.

The Nelsons will continue to do their radio show and just

recently completed the movie “Here Come The

Nelsons.”

SLOW POKE - Pee Wee King

TELL ME WHY - Four Aces

SIN - Eddy Howard

THE LITTLE WHITE CLOUD THAT CRIED Johnnie

Ray

CHARMAINE - Mantovani

SHRIMP BOATS - Jo Stafford

ANY TIME - Eddie Fisher

DOWN YONDER - Del Wood

UNDECIDED - Ames Brothers

COLD, COLD HEART - Tony Bennett

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JEALOUSY (Jalousie) - Frankie Laine

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Week of February 1, 1952

At the movies -

Hudson.

Farley Granger