Week of February 22, 1950

Dr Klaus Fuchs, described as a Jekyll-Hyde wizard of science, pleads guilty and

is given the maximum sentence of 14 years in prison for betraying American and

British atomic secrets to Soviet Russia after a 90-minute trial.

Top scientists warn that if the Hydrogen

bomb works, it could easily be made to

kill everyone in the world. At the same

time, Dr Hans Bethe of Cornell University

and four other prominent physicists said

it take three years to know whether such

a bomb could be produced. As conceived

in theory, the H-bomb would only take

500 tons of heavy hydrogen, either in

one H-bomb or a number of them to

make a dust that would kill everyone in

the world. The scientists were guests on

a University of Chicago Round Table

broadcast seen over channel 5 in Chicago.

In Oklahoma City - a fireman, thinking he grabbed a two-year old girl, instead -

grabs a doll in a smokey apartment fire. Said fireman Bob Coley - “I crawled on

the floor to the bed. I couldn’t see a thing because of the smoke, but I felt

something wrapped in a blanket. When I pulled it off the bed, it cried just like a

baby. When I got outside, I saw it was just a doll - a big baby doll.” Coley made

several more attempts and found the real baby girl - but it was too late. She died

of suffocation.

Also in Oklahoma City - a wild leopard leaped from its 18-foot pit at the

Oklahoma City zoo, scattering hundreds of visitors. The police riot squad rushed

to the zoo to evacuate the visitors and attempt to track down the big cat. Police

have an order to “shoot to kill” from the zoo director. Residents of nearby Lincoln

Park are warned to stay indoors overnight. Zoo officials say the animal had been

out of the jungle only a few weeks - and is one of the few jungle animals that kills

for pleasure.

President Truman promises his cooperation to a forthcoming Senate

investigation into Republican charges that “at least” 57 Communists are or

recently have been at work in the State Department. Sen. McCarthy of

Wisconsin is the author of the charge of Communist penetration in the State

Department.

Week of February 22, 1950

Kate Murtagh - a New York stage comedian and a

tall girl says if you’re a tall lady, there’s only one

solution and that’s to have a sense of humor. “It’s

no handicap to romance to be tall. Males in general

like the idea of a girl who is tall and proud of it.” She

says there are some drawbacks though. “I’ll never

forget the time I tried to be obliging when a boy

asked to kiss me goodnight. I just leaned over, lifted

him up and kissed him. I never saw him again.” She

also says don’t jitterbug if you’re taller then the

guy you are with. She tried, but banged her chin on top of his head.

For the first time - a jet lands on an aircraft carrier. Eight

Grumman Panther jets each land twice on the carrier USS

Valley Forge, for a total of 16 landings. The landing speeds

averaged 115mph. That compares to less than 90mph of

propeller-driven fighters.

Radio news - a disgruntled radio engineer is heard sounding-off against his

bosses over station KECA (790) - the ABC station in Los Angeles. He apparently

pre-recorded the dissertation where it was unknowingly inserted into a sports

program during a commercial break. He was only on the air for 20 seconds. Over

the airwaves, he was heard to say, “I’ll probably get fired for this.” According to

management, he was already given his two-week notice.

More radio news - Nathan Straus sells his New York City FM station (WMCA-FM

- 92.3) to a newly created corporation for $7,500. Strauss announced he was

closing down the station in late December because it was losing $4000 a month.

The station still remains on the air - for six hours a day, similcasting its AM

station. The new company - WYOU Inc, plans to change the call-letters to WIFE.

Television news - station WNBT (NBC-Channel 4) in New York City, says it will

add two more hours to its daytime programming. The station now signs-on at

5:15 each afternoon.

Motion picture actor “Texas Jim”

Robertson is signed by WATV (channel

13) in Newark, NJ, to host a daily

afternoon western movie program.

Week of February 22, 1950

“Special Bing Crosby Offer - ‘I’ll pay for your first can of Minute Maid fresh-frozen

orange juice!’ ... Take if from Bing - no other orange juice is so good you can

almost taste the sunshine!” Minute Maid.

New at the mart - Post’s Sugar Crisp. The new cereal that has everything ... For

breakfast it’s dandy ... for snacks it’s so handy ... or eat it like candy! ... Puffed

wheat, coated with sugar and honey.

To celebrate Green Giant’s 20th Birthday - Fred Waring

writes a new Happy Birthday song. Send for the sheet music

and record! with your Green Giant coupon. Don’t forget to

stock-up on Green Giant Sweet Peas and Corn Niblets!

At the mart - Potatoes - 10lb bag - .35 ... 2 quart bottles of

Clorox Bleach - .29 ... Gerber Baby Foods - (3) 4 1/2oz cans

- .25 ... Spare Ribs - .37lb.

Look Magazine Achievement Award

Best actress - Olivia de Havilland - “The Heiress”

Best actor - Broderick Crawford - “All The King’s Men”

All Industry Achievement Award - Cecil B De Mille for

“his long and unrivaled contribution to the screen and his

movie ‘Samson and Delilah.

Best Producer - Dore Schary for “bringing a new force to

motion pictures” and for his war picture ‘Battleground.’

Wednesday Night Radio -

CBS - Club 15, Mr. Chameleon, Dr Christian, You Bet

Your Life w/Groucho Marx, Bing Crosby Show, Burns and Allen, Lum n Abner

NBC - Frank Sinatra/Dorothy Kirsten, Guy Lombardo, This Is Your Life, Break the

Bank, Mr. District Attorney, The Big Story, Curtain Time

ABC - The Lone Ranger, Dr I.Q., Casebook Of Gregory Hood, Sherlock Holmes,

Buzz Adlam’s Playroom, Lawrence Welk Show, On Trial

Mutual - Fulton Lewis Jr., The Answer Man, Gabriel Heatter Good News, Can

You Top This? Boston Blackie, Mr. Feathers, Family Theatre, Frank Edwards

Week of February 22, 1950

comments, Calling All Detectives.

Wednesday night television - in larger cities

CBS - Arthur Godfrey, Abe Burrows’ Almanac

NBC - Believe It Or Not, The Clock Television Theatre, Break

the Bank w/Bert Parks, Harry Hershfield’s Talent Search

ABC - The Fitzgeralds, On Trial, The Wonderful Guy w/Neil

Hamilton and Jack Lemmon, Wrestling From Chicago

Pop music this week in 1950 -

Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy - Red Foley

Rag Mop - The Ames Brothers

The Cry of the Wild Goose - Frankie Laine

Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy - Bing Crosby

Music! Music! Music! - Teresa Brewer

Rag Mop - Lionel Hampton

Johnson Rag - Russ Morgan

Rag Mop - Jimmy Dorsey

Broken Down Merry-Go-Round - Margaret

Whiting/Jimmy Wakely

Quicksilver - Doris Day

At the movies -

Dear Wife - William Holden, Joan Caulfield , Billy De Wolf, Mona Freeman ,

Edward Arnold

When Willie Comes Marching Home - Dan Dailey, Corinne Calvet, William

Demarest, Colleen Townsend

Young Man With A Horn - Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy

Week of February 22, 1950

Carmichael

12 O’Clock High - Gregory Peck, Dean Jagger, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrell,

Millard Mitchell

East Side, West Side - Babara Stanwyck, James Mason, Van Heflin, Ava

Gardner, Cyd

Charisse, Nancy

Davis

Challenge to Lassie - Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Garldine Brooks and

Lassie

Davy Crocket Indian Scout - George Montgomery, Ellen Drew

Francis - Donald O’Connor, Patricia Medina, Ray Collins and Francis the Talking

Army Mule

Chain Lightning - Humphrey Bogart, Eleanor Parker, Maymond Massey

Malaya - Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Valentina Cortesa, Sydney

Greenstreet, John Hodiak, Lionel Barrymore

The Outlaw - Jane Russell, Walter Huston

Battleground - Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban.

Walt Disney’s Cinderella