Week of July 17, 1952

In the hospital - President Truman is hospitalized with a mild virus infection. He

should be back at the White House in a few days. With him, First Lady Bess

Truman.

The Olympic games officially open in

Helsinki for the 15th Olympiad. The city

was supposed to host the 1940 games,

and then came the Russian attack in

1939. The games were supposed to

move to Tokyo, then Japan disqualified

itself by its unprovoked attack on Asia

and the flame of the Olympic torch died

out for eight years of war.

At least eleven are dead in an earthquake which shakes southern California. The

quake seemed to be centered in Tehachapi - 120 miles northeast of Los

Angeles.

The Democratic convention opens in Chicago.

Paul Douglas of Illinois give opening addresses.

Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt gets an ovation as

she gives an address. She read from an

undelivered speech by her late husband. It was

a plea for Americans to dedicate themselves to

making an abiding peace.

Sports - Cy Young - UCLA star, becomes the

first American in history to win an Olympic

Games javelin championship and posts a new

record of 242ft, 0.79inches at the games in

Helsinki.

Trends - Men’s haircuts are getting longer these

days and the average guy doesn’t like to look

like he’s had one.

Alice Thompson - editor and publisher of Seventeen magazine says when it

comes to teens - clothes that would have been considered shocking “in my

youth” are completely accepted today. “Manners have undergone a sea-change

(if not an outright death by drowning!)”

Week of July 17, 1952

for $94 a month. Pfc Vic Damone reports for duty at the

Fourth Army Band at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio...

Ella Fitzgerald opens at the Blue Mirror in Washington

next week... R&B artist Paul Williams opens at the Howard

Theater this week ... Joe Turner opens at the Dew Drop

at the Ebony Club in Cleveland next week.

Television update - The FCC is ready to issue another

batch of construction permits. So far since the freeze was

lifted - 18 new construction permits have been granted. This week, Denver gets

its first as television station as KFEL-TV (channel 2) goes on the air... Nash-

Kelvinator this week decides to quit sponsorship of the Paul Whitman “TV Teen

Club” seen Saturdays on ABC-TV. Although it had good ratings, the competition

is going to be a bit much with Jackie Gleason taking over the time slot on rival

CBS in the fall.

The government files antitrust action against 12 Hollywood film producers and

distributors for the release of current motion-picture films to television. Effect of

the suit, if successful, would be to make 16-millimter feature films produced by

the defendant companies available for current television distribution. Named

defendants are - 20th Century-Fox, Warner Bros, RKO Radio Pictures, Republic

Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems, Universal pictures and several more.

Goldwyn Mayer, tells an advertising club that

television is here to stay. But he added,

television has not been able to put on the screen

“anything to match the giant entertainment

offered by motion pictures.” Schary also stated

that no one would want to watch television all the

time any ore than they would want to stay in a

motion-picture theater all the time. MGM has a

policy of not allowing its stars to appear on TV

because “TV cameras and production would not

do them justice.” Schary also told the audience he does not believe there are any

Communists working in industry. “If they are, they are fooling the industry, the

FBI and the House Un-American Activities Committee.”

Week of July 17, 1952

of Stars.” Jackie Gleason, the last host, recently stepped down and

will host his own show on CBS-TV, Saturday evenings beginning in

the fall.

Monday Night Television -

CBS - Eddy Arnold Show, Video Theater, Arthur Godfrey Talent

Scouts, Democratic National Convention

NBC- Pinky Lee and Martha Stewart, The Quiz Kids with Joe Kelly, Democratic

National Convention

ABC - Stuart Erwin Show, Drew Pearson, Politics On Trial, Democratic National

Convention

Dumont - Captain Video, Serial Theatre, Pentagon,

Pop music this week in 1952 -

KISS OF FIRE - Georgia Gibbs

HERE IN MY HEART - Al Martino

I’M YOURS - Eddie Fisher

AUF WIEDERSEH’N SWEETHEART - Vera Lynn

DELICADO - Percy Faith & Orchestra

BLUE TANGO - Leroy Anderson & “Pops” Concert

Orchestra

BE ANYTHING (But Be Mine) - Eddy Howard

MAYBE - Perry Como & Eddie Fisher

WALKIN’ MY BABY BACK HOME - Johnnie Ray/or

Nat “King” Cole & Billy May

& Orchestra

LOVER - Peggy Lee & Gordon Jenkins & Orchestra

HALF AS MUCH - Rosemary Clooney

A GUY IS A GUY - Doris Day

BOTCH-A-ME (Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina) - Rosemary

Clooney

SMOKE RINGS - Les Paul & Mary Ford

WATERMELON WEATHER - Perry Como & Eddie Fisher

SUGARBUSH - Doris Day & Frankie Laine

SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY - Nat “King” Cole

CARIOCA - Les Paul

WHEEL OF FORTUNE - Kay Starr

THE BLACKSMITH BLUES - Ella Mae Morse

Week of July 17, 1952

Alan Freed’s top hits on WJW -

Lawdy, Miss Clawdy - Lloyd Price

Have Mercy Baby - Dominos

One Mint Julep - Clovers

Moody Mood For Love - King Pleasure

Goin’ Home - Fats Domino

My Heart’s Desire - Jimmie Lee

5-10-15 Hours - Ruth Brown

Ting-A-Ling - The Clovers

Call Operator 210 - Fred Dixon

At the movies -

Emilyn Williams

Allyn McLerie, Robert Shackleton

McNaly

Cotton, Shelly Winters, Scott Brady

Strange World -

Rogers, Fred Allen, Victor More,

Marilyn Monroe, Ever Ardon, Paul

Douglas, Eddie Bracken, Mitzi

Gaynor, Louis Calhern

Baxter, Dale Robertson