Week of July 8, 1958
The chief investigator of the House committee investigating Bernard Goldfine
loses his job after sensational developments which obscured the investigation of
the Boston industrialist.
President Eisenhower is in Ottawa and his met by Prime Minister Diefentaker.
The Air Force sends a forerunner if its moon rocket into space with a mouse
inside a new type nose cone scientists hoped to retrieve from the ocean.
Dr. Jeffrey Fisher the Archbishop of Canterbury touches off a furor by suggesting
it may be god’s intention that the human race destroy itself in an H-bomb war.
President Eisenhower returns to the White House after a quick inspection of the
all-American link of the St. Lawrence Seaway on his way home from Canada.
In a Gallup Poll - Americans would invite these individuals (in order) to a dream
dinner:
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin d. Roosevelt
Dwight Eisenhower
George Washington
Harry S. Truman
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Entertainment news - Marilyn Monroe returns to
Hollywood from New York. Her hair is white-blonde for her new picture.
Television news - NBC begins something called “electronic film syndication” of
portions of its Huntley-Brinkley Report.” NBC affiliates can record all filmed
portions of the nightly broadcast by video tape or by hot kinescope recording by
which the film may be prepared for rebroadcast several minutes later. The days
of mailing actualities by film is gone. It took too long and was costly.
Summer replacement for Steve Allen - Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme.
“Do You Trust Your Wife? Is renamed “Who Do You Trust.”
Saturday night television -
CBS - Perry Mason, Top Dollar, Gale Storm Show, Have Gun, Will Travel,
Gunsmoke, Sea Hunt
