Week of July 15, 1950

KOREAN WAR IS IN FULL SWING…

Thousands of North Korean Communist troops

batter their way across the Kim River, driving the

American 24 th division back six miles and bringing

Taejon under Communist artillery fire.

Winston Churchill said that the West, threatened by

world-wide Soviet pressure, is now in graver danger

than it was been since Hitler stood on the verge of

victory in 1940. Asserted the Prime Minister -

“Promoting and directing the war in Korea” is only

one aspect of a relentless global drive for

domination by the Communists. “I tell you with

utmost earnestness, that my own anxiety of the free

world reminds me of the summer of 1940.” “By this I do not mean that war is

imminent. We cannot tell. But I do not think it is imminent. But I must ask you to

suppose that time is on our side.”

The Army bars two U.S. correspondents from the

South Korean front, but Gen MacArthur quickly

lifts the ban. MacArthur told Tom Lambert of the

Associated Press and Peter Kallacher of the

United Press to go back to the war, adding that

he had full confidence in their judgment on future

war coverage. MacArthur said he was also lifting

the ban because both are friends of his.

President Truman takes the first step toward

putting the nation’s economy on a partial war

footing by ordering Federal agencies to apply

credit brakes to the home-building boom.

Communist Pyongyang radio quotes 117

American war prisoners in Korea in a new attempt to prove that President

Truman “muddled” and America breached the peace in the Korean War. As far

as this report - American soldiers never wanted to fight for Southern Koreans -

they did so only because “President Truman dreams of world domination.”

President Truman asks Congress for a $10 billion down payment on the struggle

to halt Red aggression. The armed services announce they will begin

Week of July 15, 1950

immediately calling up limited numbers of reservists - chiefly specialists - to

active duty. The President also authorized the calling of National guardsmen and

free use of the draft law.

President Truman tells the American people on radio they

are in for some belt tightening because of the Korean battle

and world conditions but said that scare buying and

hoarding are foolish and selfish. Installment credit will

tighten, with higher down payments… sooner or later -

higher taxes… perhaps fewer things to buy - especially

autos and television sets…. No price, wage or ration

controls now, but later if prices soar.

Gen. Eisenhower believes the Korean conflict is neither the beginning of World

War III nor an entrapment planned by Communist Russia of the United States

and the United Nations.

Gen Douglas MacArthur gives the United States fighting

men in Korea a pledge that they will get everything they need

- “supplies, weapons, ammunition and equipment” to drive the

north Korean Communists back beyond their frontier.

Gen MacArthur lifts the ban on women correspondents on the

Korean front and New York Herald Tribune Correspondent

marguerite Higgins says she will return immediately to the

battle area. She was ordered out of Korea last week. No

women will be allowed at the front.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee votes 11-0 to end the investigation of

Republican Sen. McCarthy’s Communists-in-government charges. A report

branded McCarthy’s accusations “a fraud and a hoax.”

Shinzo Hamai , the mayor of Hiroshima said in an interview

this week that more than 200,000 persons were killed by the

atomic bombing of Hiroshima. That is about double the death

toll commonly reported.

In a poll - a survey shows six out of 10 adults drink beer or

other intoxicating beverages, though many are only occasional drinkers. Liquor

has been a cause of trouble in the homes of one out of every seven drinkers.

Week of July 15, 1950

Free TV antenna’s are the newest apartment option

Hollywood news - Jerry Lewis and his wife adopted a 6 ½-month old blond baby

boy. They have a son, Gary who is 5.

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis switch to MCA from Abner J. Greshler for

management and representation. They haven’t been too happy with Greshler for

the past several years.

Actress Linda Darnell and her cameraman

husband Pevereli Marley, separate. He’s 25 years

older. They married in 1943.

Back from New York after a series of

appearances, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz return to

Hollywood and confirm recent stories that they

expect to become parents next January after 10

years of marriage. They’re hoping for twins. She

wants a boy, and he wants a girl, so they’ve compromised in the hopes for one of

each.

Ed Wynn is signed to an exclusive radio-television pact by NBC. Wynn is a

defector from CBS.

Television news - Actress Claire Trevor says television is

missing the boat by trying to cut corners and save money on

good writing talent. The actress says her research has convinced

her that with a few exceptions, there is very little original video

Week of July 15, 1950

writing worthy of the expensively mounted productions designed to frame them.

Margaret Truman, daughter of the President is signed to make her commercial

debut on television on October 29. She will sing on “Toast of the town, the variety

show presided over by Ed Sullivan.

NBC-TV makes a mistake. They scheduled a drama show right in the middle of

their Saturday morning kiddie offerings. Last week, something called “A Life in

Your Hands” - a story about an unfaithful wife whose husband was murdered in

a saloon, was played just after “Jack and the Beanstalk” over NBC-TV. “A Life In

Your Hands” is the summer replacement for the Art Linkletter program “People

Are Funny” but this show was totally incompatible for the time slot. The drama

show will continue on Tuesday nights.

NBC-TV will rotate comics on its Sunday evening show and do

the same on a show set for Wednesday nights . Fred Allen ,

Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis are set as three of

the four Sunday night emcees.

Some Wednesday night television -

CBS - Stork Club, Arthur Godfrey, What’s My Line? President

Truman speaking from Washington

NBC - News caravan with John Cameron Swayze, Fay Emerson and Kenneth

Banghart, Cameo Theatre, Sponsored play, President Truman…

DuMont - Famous Jury Trials, The Plainclothes Man, Broadway to Hollywood

with George Putnam, President Truman…

ABC - Author Meets the Critics, Wrestling From Chicago, President Truman…

Radio news - Boris Karloff will become “Uncle Boris” in a new

radio series for kids over WNEW in New York. He’ll play records

from children’s albums, read poetry and tell stories. It will begin

Sunday afternoons later this month.

DJ Geoff Davis on WINS, New York quits because of the

station’s music policy. He’s unable to pick his own records.

Music news - Boom in ukuleles - over 1.5 million have been sold and

manufacturers are finding it hard to meet demand.

Decca Records and subsidiaries Coral and Brunswick will begin issuing 45rpm

singles on August 15. Columbia is still holding out on the new speed.