Week of January 23, 1958

Keeping unions straight - President Eisenhower calls on Congress to pass a 12-

point program to guard against union fund pilfering and keep labor organizations

out of the hands of dictators. He told Congress that most union officials are

decent, honest Americans, but nobody can ignore recent “disclosures of

corruption, racketeering and abuse of trust and power in the labor-management

field.”

Speaking of dictators - President Marcos Perez Jimenez of Caracas is

overthrown by a “civic-military committee.” Caracas is the world’s No 2 oil-

producing nation.

At Cape Canaveral - the Air Force successfully test-launches a Thor rocket

(ballistic missile). The ballistic missile has a 1500-mile-range.

catcher and the best catcher in the National

League, breaks his neck in an auto accident,

about a mile from his house in Glen Cove,

Long Island. A seven-man team worked over

the Negro star for four hours and 20 minutes

in an attempt to repair the damage and relieve

paralysis from the chest down. It now appears

his career is through and he’ll at least be

partially paralyzed. Campy’s car skidded on

wet pavement as he went into a dangerous S

curve. The car flipped over and crashed into a

telephone pole. The first doctor to reach him

as he lay moaning said, “It doesn’t look good

for his baseball career.” Married with six

children, ranging in age from 4 to 16,

Campanella owns a prosperous Harlem liquor store. As a baseball veteran of

more than 10 years, Campanella is eligible for a $175 monthly pension when he

reaches the age of 50. If permanently injured, he gets $250 a month for life under

baseball’s pension plan. He was getting ready to move with the team from New

York to Los Angeles. In his 10 seasons with the Dodgers, Campy thrice was

voted the National League’s MVP - in ‘51, ‘53 and ‘55.

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practical if your weekend includes traveling - it fits easily into a corner of a king-

size purse.

Rock ‘n Roll radio -Smootchin’ in the car at midnight - Radio

station 1010WINS in New York City adds something different

this week to the line-up. Tune in Saturday nights at midnight to

hear actor Sidney Gross read passages by Edgar Allan Poe -

complete with organ music. Don’t forget - WINS is home of the

You can hear the station at night throughout New England too!

Found dead - Robert D. Levitt (47) - former publisher of the American Weekly

and the ex-husband of singer Ethel Merman in East Hampton, NY. A note found

nearby indicated that he had killed himself. His brother is Arthur Levitt, New York

State Comptroller.

Best selling books -

By Love Possessed - James Gould Cozzens

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Some Came Running - James Jones

Rally Round The Flag, Boys! - Max Shulman

Thomasina - Paul Gallico

Below the Salt - Thomas B. Costain

On the Beach - Nevil Shute

Baruch: My Own Story - Bernard Baruch

Kids Say The Darndest Things - Art Linletter

Where Did You Go?” “Out.” ... Where Did You Do?”

“Nothing” - Robert Paul Smith

Please Don’t Eat The Daisies - Jean Kerr

Attorny For The Damned - Arthur Weinberg

Book of the Seven Seas - Peter Freuchen

The Age of Revolution - Winston S. Churchill

Passing - Arthur B. Eisenhower (71) - a retired

banker and eldest brother of President Eisenhower

Kris Kristofferson (21) a novice college welterweight at Pomona-Claremont

college in Southern California, doesn’t fit the profile of a boxer. He’s a Rhodes

scholarship winner - selected as one of 32 students in all the U.S. for three years

of post grad study at Oxford; A straight-A student and a three-year varsity football

veteran. He’s also the sports editor of the college newspaper, a creative writer

too and hopes someday to go into journalism. Last year, he won four of the 20

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awards for articles he submitted to Atlantic-Monthly magazine. Chuck Mills,

Pomona-Claremont line coach says of him: “There wasn’t a harder working guy

on the squad than Kris. It just seems natural for him to do everything perfectly.

And more important, there’s not a thing egotistical about him. He’s one of the

most popular fellows on campus.” In his first fight last week, Kristofferson scored

a first-round knockout. (Kris Kristofferson would go on to write many pop tunes

including “Me and Bobby McGee” and “Sunday Morning Coming Down” He also

went on to become an accomplished singer and actor.)

In sports - The radio broadcast team of the Brooklyn

Dodgers will be heading west for the Los Angeles

Dodgers broadcasts this baseball season. Look for

broadcast on radio KMPC (710) for all the Dodger

action.

Also in sports - Boston Red Sox announcer Curt

Gowdy phones Red Sox slugger Ted Williams, after a Boston paper’s front page

story which said the 39-year old star’s career was threatened by an injury.

Williams said he merely sprained his right ankle while fishing, nothing is broken

and that his career is OK.

of America’s highest paid models. At 13, she earned $30

and hour, was named one of the country’s 10 top models

by Saturday Evening Post and appeared on covers of

seven national magazines. She lives in Hollywood with

her mother. She’s only had one date - that was with actor

John Saxon to publicize a picture. She heads to Paris and

London this week (her first trip overseas) to work with Rex

Harrison and Kay Kendall in “The Reluctant Debutante.”

Riding the wave of westerns on television - Walt Disney

adds two more Western characters - John Slaughter

Disneyland rotation. Slaughter is said to have been a

sheriff in Tombstone, Arizona and Baca was a law officer

in New Mexico.

(After leaving ABC-TV in 1961, Disney said he was

reluctant to add so much western fare to Disneyland - but

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the network insisted.)

Less than a month after having been hospitalized by a cardiac-asthmatic attack,

Red Skelton returns to his weekly show on CBS-TV.

Revlon drops its sponsorship of “The Walter Winchell File” on ABC-TV

Marry - Actor Paul Newman (33) and actress Joanne Woodward (27) in Las

Vegas. The couple plans a six-week honeymoon in Europe.

plays Cochise in TV’s Broken Arrow) to

several months ago at 20th Century-Fox’s

Western lot where Broken Arrow and her

series “How to Marry A Millionaire” were

being filmed on adjacent stages

Marries again - It’s #6 for Busby Berkeley

(62) - former film dance director to Etta Judd.

Berkeley says he is now writing for television.

Sunday Night Television -

CBS - The Twentieth Century, Lassie, Jack Benny, Ed Sullivan, G. E Theater,

Alfred Hitchcock, $64,000 Challenge, What’s My Line?

NBC - My Friend Flicka, Sally, Steve Allen, Chevy Show, Loretta Young Show

ABC - Maverick, Adventure at Scott Island, Debut-Sid Caesar Invites You, You

Asked For it, Scotland Yard

tactics to win a Silver Saddle contest

Jack Benny Show - Audrey Meadows and Dennis

Day guest for a Jackie Gleason-type sketch

Debut - Sid Caesar Invites You - Sid is back on

television and reunites with Imagine Coca and Carl

Reiner

The Ed Sullivan Show - Jimmy Rogers, Georgia

Gibbs, Duke University Glee Club and others.

Week of January 23, 1958

Steve Allen Show - Rubinoff and his player piano,

Martha Raye, Charles Laughton, Jimmy Dean

The Chevy Show (Dinah Shore) - Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford, Ted Reid, The

Steiner Brothers.

Pop music this week in 1958…

GET A JOB - The Silhouettes

SHORT SHORTS - The Royal Teens

AT THE HOP - Danny & The Juniors

YOU ARE MY DESTINY - Paul Anka

STOOD UP - Ricky Nelson

THE STROLL - The Diamonds

WAITIN’ IN SCHOOL - Ricky Nelson

WITCHCRAFT - Frank Sinatra

DON’T LET GO - Roy Hamilton

DEDE DINAH - Frankie Avalon

SAIL ALONG SILVERY MOON - Billy

Vaughn & His Orchestra

THE SWINGIN’ SHEPHERD BLUES -

The Moe Koffman Quartette

MAYBE - The Chantels

MARCH FROM THE RIVER KWAI AND

COLONEL BOGEY - Mitch Miller

BUZZ-BUZZ-BUZZ - The Hollywood

Flames

I BEG OF YOU - Elvis Presley

DON’T - Elvis Presley

CATCH A FALLING STAR - Perry

Como

JO-ANN - The Playmates

I’LL COME RUNNING BACK TO

YOU - Sam Cooke

(I LOVE YOU) FOR SENTIMENTAL

REASONS

RAUNCHY - Bill Justis & His

Orchestra

WE BELONG TOGETHER - Robert &

Johnny

COLONEL BOGEY - Edmundo Ros

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& His Orchestra

CLICK-CLACK - Dickey Doo & The Don’ts

Top Western single -

The Story of My Life - Marty Robbins

At the movies -

Marvin

Laughton

Nolan, Arthur Kennedy, Russ Tamblyn, Terry Moore,

Hope Lange, Diane Varsi, David Nelson

Redgrave, Laude Dauphin, Giorgia Moll

Earl Holliman, Ann Francis, Keenan Wynn, Fred

Clark, Eva Gabor, Russ Tamblyn, Jeff Richards,

Mickey Shaughnessy

Owens, James Garner, Ricardo Montalban, Red

Buttons

Castle

Mickey Rooney

Loren

Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg,

Mylene Demongeot

Turner, Jeff Chandler

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Hayworth, Kim Novak