Week of January 23, 1956

29 perish and more than 120 others injured after a San Diego-bound Santa Fe

commuter train left the tracks in Los Angeles.

Congress the United States has “reached the

threshold of a 400-billion dollar economy and

prosperity is likely to stay. To strengthen the

government’s hand in guiding the national economy,

the President recommended that Congress restore

the power to control installment buying by setting

minimum down payments and maximum pay-off

periods. The President urged this as a stand-by

measure, to be used only when the economic

situation demands it and under proper administrative

safeguards.

President Eisenhower, disposing of several widely accepted political rumors,

scratches the notion that he will ask Chief Justice Warrant to replace Richard

Nixon on the republican ticket.

a grateful nation and praise from President

Eisenhower for his “great achievement” in

developing a vaccine against polio.

President Eisenhower proposes a five-year

$250 million Federal program for construction

of medical schools and research facilities to aid

the nation’s “unending war against disease and

disability.”

President Eisenhower turns down a Soviet

proposal for a 20-year United States Russian

friendship treaty. He told Premier Bulganin that a “change of spirit” and not a

mere “stroke of the pen’ is needed to promote world peace.

Baltimore -At least ten women were killed during a stampede by 1000 to get out

of a rented hall, which erupted, in fire at the peek of a church dance and oyster

roast. The event was put on by a local church. The fire began in a vent in the

kitchen area.

Week of January 23, 1956

Week of January 23, 1956

Norwegian navy men board and seize five Russian fishing vessels caught within

Norway’s four-mile fishing boundary. They said they had to fire warning sots

before one Russian captain would give up his ship.

Sports -

celebrates his seventh wedding anniversary by

signing his 1956 contract, which he calls for the

highest salary ever paid a catcher in major league

baseball. The figure tops the $42,500 for which

catcher Roy Campanella of the Dodgers signed

this week.

Entertainment news -

Prince Rainier III of Monaco says in a press

conference, he wouldn’t want his wife to work. “It

won’t be necessary for her to work. She thinks I

am right that she should end her film career” said

the Prince.

Voluptua, who used to perform on a sexy bedtime show on TV in the U.S. is a

complete flop in Britain and is going home broke, Gloria (Voluptua) Pall said she

has had it. “It’s true I’ve flopped over here. It looks as if I have created a

monster… I’m fed up with it.”

Television news -

WABD-TV Channel 5 (New York) is doing something called

“Tune In Anytime Theatre.’ It’ll present the same movie in

succession. According to station manager Ted Cott, the

concept “will make a movie as accessible to the housewife

as water in the kitchen.” “The housewife can’t organize her

day in order to tune in a program at a certain hour. So, we’ll

run the same movie over and over and she can tune in

anytime and see the whole show.”

Speaking of WABD - the station’s namesake - Allen B. Dumont celebrates his

years. They were the first to develop a commercially practical cathode ray tube,

back in 1932.

Week of January 23, 1956

Trouble on Saturday nights. Seems that

“Stage Show” with the Dorsey Brothers and

produced by Jackie Gleason, is not doing well

in the ratings. “The Honeymooners” fair much

better and CBS wants them switched. Irked,

Jackie Gleason called a meeting saying that

CBS was trying to push him around. “There is

a subtle scheme to discourage me from

keeping state Show on,” said Gleason. “They

(CBS) think I’ll just give up and take it off the

air. But their scheme is not going to work.

Stage show is a half-hour musical variety

program being shown directly preceding

Gleason’s “Honeymooners.” For the last

several months, the NBC-TV one-hour Perry

Como Show has been clobbering Stage

Show in the ratings. Gleason’s

Honeymooners on the other hand, has been

beaten only three times over the last 20

weeks by Como. Gleason said of CBS wants

to fold Stage Show, he will take “around

$350,00 to $400,000 for expenses, profits he

expected and for paying off personnel.”

On February 20, Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball

will guest star on the comedy which follows “I

Love Lucy” on Monday nights - “December

Bride” starring Spring Byington. The storyline

will concern the Desi Arnaz fan club.

Monday night television -

CBS - Douglas Edwards news, Adventures

of Robin Hood, Burns and Allen, Talent

Scouts, I Love Lucy, December Bride, Studio

One

NBC - Tony Martin, News Caravan w/John Cameron Swayze, Caesar’s Hour,

Medic, Robert Montgomery Presents, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Presents, Tonight

Show

Week of January 23, 1956

ABC - John Daly news, Topper, Reader’s

Digest, Voice of Firestone, Dotty Mack

Show, Medical Horizon, Dangerous

Assignment, Where Were You?

Caesar’s Hour - With Nanette Fabray, Carl

Reiner, Sandra Deel, Bowie Morris, Ellen

parker, Bill Lewis, Earl Wilde

I Love Lucy - The gang’s aboard an ocean

liner headed for Europe. Lucy wants to

“kidnap” Ricky for a second honeymoon.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - story of leprechauns

and two feuding hotelkeepers.

Tonight Show - Jan Peerce, George Kirby

and Richard Hayman join Steve Allen.

At the movies -

Richard Conte

Sernas

Richard Burton

Week of January 23, 1956

Sunday Night

Week of January 23, 1956

Danny Kaye In Person!

Week of January 23, 1956

Sunday Night On CBS-TV