Week of February 15, 1951

The Senate Armed Services Committee approves a universal military training

and service program, including authority to draft 18-year-olds.

Major defeat in Korea - 20,000 Chinese Reds fail to break through in Central

Korea and are wiped-out

Prime Minister Stalin said the United Nations is dooming

itself to disintegration with the United States leading it

toward war. Stalin declared American forces face defeat in

Korea unless Washington and London accept Communist

China’s terms for a Far East settlement.

Chinese Reds appear to be making a general withdrawal

along a 360mile area in West-Central Korea where they

suffered bloody defeat in trying for a breakthrough

Gen MacArthur visits the Korean battle front today and

orders United Nations troops to resume the initiative but

said he would not “arbitrarily” order them to cross the 38 th Parallel.

The State Department days Russia is reported to have 35 fully armored or

mechanized divisions in East Germany and Poland and has restored rail lines

that would be useful “in the even of war with the western powers.

The United States proposes to Russia that a Big Four Foreign Ministers

conference to ease world tensions be held in Washington provided a “mutually

acceptable basis” for it can be agreed upon.

American families had a median income of $3100 in 1948 reports the Census

Bureau. That was a $100 decline from 1948, but $500 above wartime 1944 and

1945 Census numbers.

Sugar Ray Robinson strips Jake

LaMotta of his world middleweight crown

on a TKO in Chicago.

The Atlantic Refining Co announces a

new process to turn out a super gasoline

for the cars of tomorrow. The company

said that one 42-gallon barrel of crude oil

produces enough gas by present refining

Week of February 15, 1951

The Bachelors Club of America announces its list

of “the 10 most desirable unattached women in

America:”

Opera Star Patrice Munsel , Ginger Rogers, Shelly

Winters, Singer Margaret Phelan, Sharman

Douglas, Jane Wyman, Dagmar (Jennie Lewis),

Eva Gabor, Ava Gardner and Elizabeth Taylor.

Television news -

Music news -

Woolworth is adding a line of discount long-playing records as

they now plan to carry Remington Records. Up to now,

Woolworth has only been carrying pop recordings at prices

slightly below the regular retail tab. The Remington line will be

sold at $2.10 for the 12-inch and $1.69 for 10-inch records. This is less than half

the price for regular labels.

KTSL-TV Los Angeles (channel 2), formerly owned by Don Lee and which CBS

purchased in December, will become the sole CBS-TV outlet starting April 1. No

more CBS shows on KTTV (channel 11).

Pop singer Eddie Fisher is scheduled to report to the Army March 10.

Tony Martin signs a five-year record deal with RCA Victor

for whom he’s recorded for the last five years. Like Perry

Como’s RCA deal, contract gives Martin a straight 5% of

retail sales

At the movies -

Payment on Demand - Bette Davis, Barry Sullivan

Vengeance Valley

- Burt

Lancaster ,

Robert Walker, Joanne Dru, Sally

Forrest

Call Me Mister - Danny Kaye

Tomahawk - Van Heflin, Yvonne

DeCarlo

At War With the Army - Dean Martin

and Jerry Lewis

Week of February 15, 1951

Pop music this week in 1951 -

MY HEART CRIES FOR YOU - Guy Mitchell

IF - Perry Como

BE MY LOVE - Mario Lanza-

THE TENNESSEE WALTZ - Patti Page

YOU’RE JUST IN LOVE - Perry Como

THE ROVING KIND - Guy Mitchell

THE THING - Phil Harris

HARBOR LIGHTS - Sammy Kaye

NEVERTHELESS (I’m In Love With You) - Paul

Weston

THINKING OF YOU - Don Cherry