Week of July 23, 1957

President Eisenhower’s civil rights bill is stripped in the Senate of all its

enforcement powers except those covering voting rights. It was a solid victory for

southern senators who have argued for weeks that the bill as it came from the

House would permit the Federal government to force racial integration of the

schools in their states and impose other social changes.

(Most of section 3 eliminated). Section 3 would have empowered the Attorney

General on his own initiative to seek federal court injunctions against all kinds of

civil rights violations or threat of violations. Persons flouting the injunctions could

be charged with contempt of court and tried by federal judges without a jury.

Knoxville - An all-white jury returns a guilty verdict to six-codefendants in the

Clinton racial case.

International Brotherhood of Teamsters is set in motion. Two

hundred union officials from the East, South and Midwest

meet in Chicago to begin a draft movement for the 44-year-

old head of the Central states Conference of Teamsters. Mr.

Hoffa is fresh from his acquittal of charges that he bribed a

senate investigator. He’s made no secret of his readiness to

run.

President of Guatemala slain - A palace guard identified as

palace hallway and then committed suicide.

President Eisenhower described the death of President

Carlos Castillo Armas of Guatemala as a “great loss to

Guatemala and the free world.

The Soviet Union turns down an American proposal to

exchange censor-free radio and television broadcasts under

present conditions.

A violent earthquake rocks Mexico City. So far 67 are dead and hundreds hurt.

Rioting Montana prison convicts agree to release five guards held as hostages

and return to their cells after rioting nearly nine hours.

Week of July 23, 1957

American travel behind the Iron Curtain is headed for a new record this year with

about 10,000 United States citizens expected to visit Eastern Europe, including

the Soviet Union.

The FTC says that the Helen Curtis shampoo “Enden” will not cure dandruff. A

television commercial had indicated that it would.

move to Los Angeles for the 1958 season. In Manhattan, a

spokesman for Mayor Robert Wagner said; “The city is doing

everything possible to see if something can be done to keep

them here but evidently, they don’t want to say, so let them

go.”

Floyd Patterson gives Tommy (Hurricane) Jackson an

unmerciful beating and drops the #1 challenger three times before referee Ruby

Medical - Ft. Worth - a man whose temperature zoomed to 109.6 deg before he

was dumped in a tub of ice enters his sixth day of survival. Doctors say they have

never heard of a case of anyone surviving that long after such high fever.

birth to a 6-pound 11-ounce boy.

Television news -

Jack Parr becomes host of the NBC-TV “Tonight”

show this week (see add).

Reunion - Sid Casear and Imogene Coca, who

went their separate ways 3 years ago are coming

back to do a 30-minute show on NBC-TV.

Rosemary Clooney will be the star of her own live

musical program on NBC. She now appears on a

filmed program produced and syndicated to TV

stations by MCA-TV, a subsidiary of the Music Corporation of America.

Week of July 23, 1957

century adventures of Pierre Radisson, enemy of Indian tribes in the Canadian

Northwest.

ABC-TV is out front in presenting singers with their own shows. Coming this

season, the network will present shows anchored by Pat Boone, Frank Sinatra,

Guy Mitchell and Patrice Munsel.

Week of July 23, 1957

Monday night television -

CBS - Douglas Edwards news, Robin Hood, Burns and Allen, Godfrey talent

scouts, Those Whiting Girls, Richard Diamond Private Detective, Studio One

NBC - Huntley-Brinkley news, Georgia Gibbs, Charles Farrell Show, Action

Tonight, Twenty-One, Arthur Murray Party, Code 3, Tonight w/Jack Paar

ABC - John Daly news, Wire Service, Bold Journey, Passport to Danger,

Lawrence Welk, the Falcon

Tonight W/Jack Paar - Jack takes over has host. With guests - Edith Adams,

Dick Haymes, Stanley Holloway and Franklin Pangborn.

At the movies -

Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren

Pavlow, Donald Sinden

Harrison Kay Kendall, Margaret

Leighton