Week of January 1, 1957

Egypt abrogates the 1954 treaty with Britain and forbids the use of Egyptian

bases in a conflict with the soviets and Egypt establishes herself as a major

neutralist country in the Middle East. That means, no U.S. bases as well.

Slim Democratic majorities keep control of both Senate and House of

For the second time in 48 hours, weary police search the towering Empire state

Building as the result of a fake bomb scare. Nothing was found.

government knocks the props from under Hungarian

hopes for any general liberalization of its tough

political course. It proclaimed a harsh back to

Stalinism program.

Secretary of state Dulles meets with secretary

General Dag Hammarskjold on the situation in the

Middle East at the United Nations.

Good to go in the Suez Canal - A string of ships

marooned in the Suez Canal more than two months

get up steam and begin a complicated voyage to the

open sea. In all, 13 ships of seven countries were caught heading south in the

canal when British and French warplanes began bombardment October 31 in

preparation for the invasion of Port Said. Sunken ships - some scuttled by the

Egyptians and blasted bridges blocked their way out.

In Montgomery - A group of white teenage boys hurled two spark plugs at an

integrated city bus today, breaking a five-day calm in the South’s main testing

ground for racially mixed transit seating. The boys, aged 11 to 15 were rounded-

up. The spark plugs shattered a window of the bus as it passed through a white

neighborhood, but did not penetrate the vehicle and no one was injured.

Sports -

player and one of its greatest stars for 10 seasons, says

he is quitting the game forever to enter private business.

Robinson was traded by the Brooklyn Dodgers to the

New York Giants in December.

Week of January 1, 1957

Bowl Games -

Sugar - Baylor - 13 Tennessee 7

Sun - George Washington - 13 Texas Western 0

Cotton - TCU 28 Syracuse 27

Orange - Colorado 27 Clemson 21

Rose - Iowa 35 Oregon Stage 19

Entertainment news -

MGM makes a deal with Alfred Hitchcock to produce and direct “The Wreck of

Mary Deare.’

near Cactus City in the S. California desert after

disappearing from her Los Angeles home. She looked

“worked over.” She did manage to make 3 phone calls

during the 15 hours following her abduction. After she

arrived back home, she asked for police protection.

In London - Michael Todd buys the most expensive

British automobile he could find for Elizabeth Taylor,

then phoned her in New York and told her the news.

The car features a bar and a place you can cook up a

meal. He is reportedly ready to marry the actress when

it’s legally possible. Ms. Taylor file suit for divorce against her husband, Michael

Wilding lat November.

Bandleader Jimmy Dorsey (52) enters a hospital, suffering from a lung ailment.

An operation to relieve a ‘very irritating wart on his left lung” will be performed.

Rome’s Quotidiano, official organ of Italian

announce that she is pregnant. Gina, Italy’s top

motion-picture money earner in 1956, called the

conference several days ago at her villa where

she said, “I must confirm that I am expecting a

child.” Then she and her husband, Milo Skofic,

and newsmen, drank champagne toasts while

hundreds of photographs were made.

Week of January 1, 1957

charge. He just returned from a three-month picture-

making trip to England. He ran his auto into the rear

of another auto just before he left.

Monday night television -

CBS - Douglas Edwards news, Robin Hood, Burns

and Allen, Godfrey Talent Scouts, I Love Lucy,

December Bride, Studio One

NBC - Huntley-Brinkley news, Nat King Cole,

Project 20, Robert Montgomery Presents, Douglas

Fairbanks Presents, Tonight

ABC - John Daly news, Bold Journey, Danny Thomas, Voice of Firestone,

Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, Lawrence Welk

Burns and Allen - George and Gracie decide to take an active part in Ronnie’s

hobbies until he decides to try bullfighting.

Tonight Show - Murray Kaufman joins Ernie Kovacs.

At the movies -

Week of January 1, 1957

Week of January 1, 1957

Week of January 1, 1957