Week of June 1-12, 1959

Invasion in Nicaragua - Loyal troops

hurl back to rebel invasion forces and

chase them through the hills of Central

Nicaragua. The Nicaraguan foreign office

said it had “reliable reports” that three

schooners carrying men and arms had

left Cuba for Nicaragua to assist the

rebels (a Castro assist?)

President Eisenhower makes clear his terms for a summit conference. The

Soviet Union, said the President, must accept the western powers’ right to stay in

Berlin until Germany is unified.

A racecar hurtling out of control at 70mph after being sideswiped plunges into a

bleacher crowd at the Beverly Speedway in St Joseph, Missouri. 26 are injured -

13 seriously.

soared 300 miles into space last week, dies while

undergoing an operation for removal of a recording

instrument. The instrument, implanted under its skin,

provided bio-medical information during and after the space

flight.

Cuba - Police announce they have smashed a counter-

revolutionary plot against the government of Premier

Castro. Police squads arrest 12 former Batista men in raids

on five hideouts and seized arms, ammunition, uniforms

and other war materials an official announcement said.

Soviet Premier Khrushchev says, “If no agreement is

reached at the Geneva conference of foreign ministers, agreements will

undoubtedly be reached at a summit conference.”

East German Communists threaten a total blockade of Red-encircled West Berlin

if West Germany goes through with its plans to hold elections for a new

president. The Reds also hint at a possible boost in the already heavy cash tolls

on land and water traffic between West Berlin and the West, suggesting a

possible attempt to strangle the city by economic measures rather than an

outright blockade.

Week of June 1-12, 1959

A 100-ton Atlas ICBM explodes in flight two minutes after launching from Cape

Canaveral, in the fifth straight failure of the nation’s most advanced

intercontinental weapon. It was a bitter disappointment to the nation’s missile

scientists trying to develop a reliable 5,000 mile-range ballistic missile to put in

the hands of troops. Russia claims to possess operational ICBM’s.

star of the ‘30’s says he would like to become and mayor

of Los Angles.

“Maybe I wouldn’t have much chance to be

elected but I am tempted. If that plan fizzles, Vallee said,

he would like to become president of the American

Federation of Musicians. Rudy doesn’t like rock n roll and

wouldn’t sing a rock n roll song. “I find the rock no roll

records pretty frightening. And I can’t understand how

anyone would have enough nerve to make them, much

less play them.”

Entertainer Liberace denies in a British court that he is a

homosexual. His denial came at the opening of a libel action in London against

the daily Mirror and its columnist William Neil Conner, who writes under the pen

name of Cassandra.

police protection after testifying against the mob, is brutally

beaten over the head - unconscious in the garage of his

home. He had testified before the California State Athletic

Commission about how the mob was trying to muscle into the

fight game.

Exodus - Leon Uris

The Ugly American - W. Lederer and e. Burdick

Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Celia Garth - Given Bristow

The Chinese Box - Katherine Eyre

Lady Chatterley’s Lover - D.H. Lawrence

Mrs “Arris Goes to Paris - Paul Gallico

Mine Enemy Grows Older - Alexander King

Only in America - Harry Golden

How I Turned $1,000 Into a Million in Real Estate In My Spare Time - William

Nickerson

Week of June 1-12, 1959

What We Must Know About Communism - Harry and Bonaro Overstreet

Twixt Twelve and Twenty - Pat Boone

The Status Seekers - Vance Packard

Folk Medicine - Jarvis

Holiday traffic death toll - The nation’s traffic toll climbs to 297 after the Memorial

Day weekend - a little more than was expected.

The American Cancer Society votes to wage a

massive anti-smoking campaign aimed chiefly at

directors calls for more vigorous efforts to “bring to the

attention of the physicians and the public - and

particularly teenagers - facts about cancer and

smoking.”

Sports - In boxing - Joe Brown saves his lightweight

title by defeating Paola Rosi in a 9-round TKO.

Actor/singer Bing Crosby and a California group called

NAFI Corp - buy KPTV (channel 12) in Portland. They also own KCOP (channel

13) in Los Angeles. No sales price was disclosed.

In a Gallup Poll - Adlai Stevenson and Sen. John F. Kennedy continue to be in

the leading choice of Democratic voters for the 1960 nomination. Stevenson has

an edge at 29% with Kennedy at 26%.

with the idea that just any Democrat can end

Republican control of the White House: “I

would think a vigorous and progressive and

effective Democrat - one who’s

demonstrated competence could win

because I think the odds are with the

Democrats, but the candidate has to be as

strong as the party is.” Kennedy believes the

principal issue in 1960 will revolve around

Presidential leadership: “The 1960’s are

going to be a terribly crucial and changing period and the solutions for all the

problems that came up in the 40’s and 50’s are not going to be enough. We shall

need new solutions and the question is whether the executive has been in the

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forefront.”

“Sanforized” means wrinkle-free

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Monday night on ABC-TV

In a Gallup Poll - 45% of parents say they favor more homework for their kids.

43% oppose and 12% offer no opinion.

You know Bulovia for watches - but don’t forget - Bulova now has a clock-radio.

The new Bulova “Aladdin” with push bottom controls “tap n Nap” alarm. “Tap it

once - and silence the alarm for 7 minutes, Tap it twice, three times or four times

- and catnap for as long as 28 minutes before the alarm goes off again. Comes in

pink, ebony, ivory, ivory and ebony - $49.95. Plus - Bulovia makes 4 transistor

radio models!

Week of June 1-12, 1959

clear County Stadium’s distant left field bleachers - and

drives-in seven runs in an 11-5 Giant victory over the

Milwaukee Braves.

The New York Yankees get out of last place by beating

the Washington Senators. The Yanks have been in a

slump - little batting. Even Mickey Mantle has been in a slump.

“The greatest concentration of nutrients ever offered n a single all-purpose food -

Kellogg’s Concentrate - a new kind of food.

Actor Ralph Ballamy tells Congress that television in this country is “at the mercy

of advertising agencies, sponsors, and various kinds of ratings with a

questionable and not a proven value.” he predicted that the American people

eventually will get the cultural programs that they want through paid television.

Movie news - Paramount Studios announces it has signed a $10 million contract

with Jerry Lewis and Jerry Lewis Productions. The studio says the contract ties

up the comedian for seven years and 14 pictures. Seven of the pictures will be

made by the Paramount-York Corp and seven will be made by the Lewis

productions firm.

with Dick Bogarde in her first movie, “A Magic Flame.”

The lucky break was given to Joe Hyams of the Herald

Tribune News Syndicate. He asked if Capucine was her

first or last name: “I don’t know yet, the studio wanted to

call me Lily Capucine. I think that is terrible. All the

names they suggested are terrible. Capucine is not my

real name but that’s al you’ll know.”

Look for Harry Belafonte’s new single on RCA Victor -

“Fifteen” from the movie “The World, the Flesh and the

Devil.”

Del-Fi Records issues the first in its gold label memorial series of singles

recorded by Ritchie Valens. Part of the proceeds from the first issue single “We

Belong Together”/”Little Girl” and others to follow, will go to a young people’s

center in Pacoima, Calif - Ritchie’s home town.

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at the end of this month, when it becomes

known as “The Texaco Huntley-Brinkley

Report” at the end of the month.

Jack Paar will only work four days a week

under a new NBC-TV contract. The firth will

be repeats of earlier shows. Last September,

Paar threatened to quit his late-night

program unless the network cut thirty

minutes a night from his one-hour and forty-

five minute show.

Sid Caesar, who terminated at contract with

NBC several years ago, signs with CBS.

He’ll star in a series of one-hour comedy

specials. Audrey Meadows, whose known to

audiences on “The Honeymooners” will be a

featured performer on all Caesar shows.

CBS and NBC says they will provide

thorough coverage when the new St.

Lawrence waterway officially opens June 26.

CBS will show the dedication ceremonies

attended by President Eisenhower and

Queen Elizabeth. NBC says it will present a

special about the seaway the same day.

“The Voice of Firestone” - first a mainstay on

radio - leaves the air after 31 years. It has

some pretty tuff competition - NBC’s “Peter

Gunn” and CBS-TV’s “Danny Thomas.”

CBS - Rawhide, Original Amateur Hour, Phil

Silvers Show, Stripe Playhouse, The Lineup,

Person to Person

NBC - Northwest Passage, Ellery Queen, M Squad, The Thin Man,

Boxing/Bowling

Week of June 1-12, 1959

ABC - Rin Tin Tin, Walt Disney Presents, Tombstone Territory, 77 Sunset Strip,

Rescue 8

Walt Disney Presents - “The Story of the Silly Symphony” traces the

development of animation from primitive one-reelers to complex feature-length

productions.

Phil Silvers Show - Bilko tackles an outer space problem when he discovers that

a “rocket chamber” is an ideal place to gather the boys for a poker game.

Jack Paar - Andy Griffith, Joey Bishop, Eileen Rogers

Burl Ives stars in a CBS-TV special Wednesday night!

Week of June 1-12, 1959

Pop music this week in 1959 -

THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS - Johnny Horton

KANSAS CITY - Wilbert Harrison

PERSONALITY - Lloyd Price

QUIET VILLAGE - Martin Denny

DREAM LOVER - Bobby Darin

KOOKIE, KOOKIE (Lend Me Your Comb) - Edd

Byrnes & Connie Stevens

A TEENAGER IN LOVE - Dion & Belmonts

Cortez

ONLY YOU - Franck Pourcel

SORRY (I Ran All The Way Home) - Impalas

ENDLESSLY - Brook Benton

SO FINE - Fiestas

TALLAHASSEE LASSIE - Freddy Cannon

GOODBYE JIMMY, GOODBYE - Kathy Linden

FRANKIE - Connie Francis

I’M READY - Fats Domino

ALONG CAME JONES - Coasters

LIPSTICK ON YOUR COLLAR - Connie Francis

PINK SHOE LACES - Dodie Stevens

JUST KEEP IT UP - Dee Clark

LONELY BOY - Paul Anka

TURN ME LOOSE - Fabian

ENCHANTED - Platters

BONGO ROCK - Preston Epps

MY MELANCHOLY BABY - Tommy

Edwards

(Now And Then There’s) A FOOL

SUCH AS I - Elvis Presley

Hurricanes

GUESS WHO - Jesse Belvin

MY HEART IS AN OPEN BOOK -

Carl Dobkins, Jr.

LONELY FOR YOU - Gary Stites

BOBBY SOX TO STOCKINGS - Frankie Avalon

GIDGET - Jimmy Darren

LITTLE DIPPER - Mickey Mozart Quintet

Week of June 1-12, 1959

I’VE COME OF AGE - Billy Storm

YOU’RE SO FINE - Falcons

THE WONDER OF YOU - Ray Peterson

LA PLUME DE MA TANTE - Hugo & Luigi

SINCE I DON’T HAVE YOU - Skyliners

TAKE A MESSAGE TO MARY - Everly Brothers

GRADUATION’S HERE - Fleetwoods

Top Country single -

The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton

At the movies -

Mel Ferrer

Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter

Compusion (Two Teenagers and Their

Orson Welles, Diane Varsi, Dean

Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, e.G.

Marshall, Martin Milner

Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley

Winters, Ed Wynn

Hayakawa, Henry Sylva

Sandra Giles, Bruno Ve Sota

Walt Disney’s Darby O’Gill And The Little

Connery, Jimmy O’Dea

Ernie Kovacs

Barbara Rush

Week of June 1-12, 1959

Purdom

Curtis, Jack Lemmon

Guardino, Rip Torn, George Peppard,

Jamed Edwards, Bob Steele

MacMurrey, Jean Hagen

Fleming

MacLaine, Gig Young

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake

Joanne Woodward, Margaret Leighton

Demongeot, Pascale Petie

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Monday night - ABC-TV

Week of June 1-12, 1959

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