Week of July 15, 1954

Secretary of State Dulles reports to President Eisenhower that France’s Premier

has assured him he will not agree to a surrender peace in order to end the Indo-

China war.

Long war ending (peace without victory) - Vietnam to be

country a signed armistice in Indo-China. The French Viet-

Minh agreement provides that Vietnam will be “temporarily”

fire period while French Union forces withdraw from the

northern half to eh country and leave it to Ho Chi Minh’s

Viet-Minh armies.

In A Gallup Poll - The number of adults attending church in the United States

has increased approximately 9 million in the last four years and upward of 13

million in the last 15 years.

kidnaper of the 1930’s who once boasted he

could write his name with machine-gun bullets,

dies of coronary thrombosis at the

Leavenworth federal penitentiary in Kansas.

William J. Levitt, one of the builders of

Levittown, Long island tells Senate housing

investigators that a profit of more than $5

million had been made on the sale of 4,028

homes in the development. The project was

built with government -insured mortgages.

Sports -

Cleveland’s Bob Feller tosses a two-hitter at the Philadelphia Athletics to win 6-0

and maintain the Indians’ slim American League lead.

Entertainment news -

Edward G. Robinson Jr., (21) is freed on $10,000 bond posted by his actor-father

after his arrest on suspicion of armed robbery.

Marry - Grouch Marx (58) and Ms. Eden Hartford (24). She’s a Beverly Hills

model.

Week of July 15, 1954

Television news -

The largest television program of its kind (ever) - 310 television stations -

representing all four TV networks will carry one program - David O Selznick’s

two-hour show celebrating the diamond jubilee of the invention of the electric

light October 24. It will be the biggest TV network ever put together for a single

sponsored by more than 300 companies and organizations of the electrical

industry. This show will go down as the biggest TV network ever put together for

a single program.

Television station KBID-TV (channel 53) in Fresno, which has been operated by

John Poole Broadcasting Co. suspends operations for an indefinite period. Poole

said refusal of major TV networks to affiliate with the station was the principal

reason for the suspension. Poole also operates KBIG radio near Los Angeles.

Poole says there are two other TV stations in Fresno, each share two networks.

He says he’ll resume broadcasting when TV set distribution has increased to the

point where local advertising can support an independent station. KBID-TV has

been on the air six months.

emcee for “The Morning Show” over CBS-TV beginning

August 14. The show began as a news and information

series last March and is now turning into a program

stressing entertainment.

George Gobel, the young comedian who appeared last

summer on “Saturday Night Revue” will get his own

show on NBC-TV beginning in October.

In a survey, WOR New York says people who watch

the morning shows on network TV - 60% of them only listen.

Two UHF station are making a profit - WCAN-TV and WOKY-TV both in

Milwaukee, report they are in the black. WCAN-TV carries ABC and DuMont and

WCAN-TV (channel 19) is CBS.

CBS-Hytron has come out with a 19-inch color picture tube and it could

eventually bring down set prices.

kid’s records called “Jerry Lester’s Kiddie Classics.”

Week of July 15, 1954

Week of July 15, 1954

Week of July 15, 1954

Week of July 15, 1954

Friday night television -

CBS - Douglas Edwards news, TV’s Top Tunes,

Pantomime Quiz, Topper, Playhouse of Stars,

Our Miss Brooks, Star Theatre, it’s News To Me

NBC - World of Mr. Sweeney, News Caravan, the

Duke, Life of Riley, Best in Mystery, Soundstage,

Sports film, Greatest Fights

ABC - John Daly news, Stu Erwin, Ozzie and

Harriet, Who’s The Boss?, Paul Hartman In Your

Times, Boston Blackie,

Who’s The Boss? - Mike Wallace is the emcee.

Red Skelton Weds Nights

At the movies -

Powell, Howard Keel

Andrews

Richard Widmark

Jones, Montgomery Clift

Week of July 15, 1954

Week of July 15, 1954

Week of July 15, 1954

Week of July 15, 1954

Week of July 15, 1954