Week of March 1, 1958

Doctors say President Eisenhower is completely recovered from the slight stroke

and speech difficulty he suffered three months ago.

Near Prestonburg, KY a school bus loaded with children hits a wrecker and an

automobile and drops into a rain-swollen river. Some 23 children die.

predicts sweeping democratic victories this year.

“Victory is in the air - the handwriting is on the wall -

this is going to be the greatest democratic year since

1936,” he promised. “What we need in America today

is not so much confidence in the economy but

confidence in our leadership.” “The Soviets have

outshone us in scientific achievements. They have outmaneuvered us in trade

and aid. They have outstripped us in the race for ultimate weapons and outer

space.” Kennedy told his audience the Democrats could pick up as many as 12

Senatorial seats this year on their way to a Presidential triumph in 1960.

Hundreds of students from Arizona State College at Tempe demonstrate wildly at

the State Capitol. The students were protesting proposed legislation which would

change the name of their school to Tempe University.

President Eisenhower says he rejected an all-out drive to beat Russia into the air

with an experimental atomic-powered plane because it might have delayed

development of a nuclear plane which would be fit for combat.

The Air Force is studying the idea of a satellite that would hover over a fixed

point on earth it could spy on events below or serve as launcher for a hydrogen-

headed missile.

The Army loses its Explorer II satellite, minutes after firing it spaceward with the

Jupiter-C rocket.

Chicago’s Cardinal Stritch is appointed to a high post in the Vatican.

Entertainment news -

author of “Peyton Place,” marries disc jockey

T.J. Martin.

Week of March 1, 1958

Comedian Bob Hope obtains from the Soviet Embassy a visa to Visit Russia. He

said as he left the embassy, they apparently “saw my show Sunday night. They

treated me like I was Red Skelton or Pinky Lee” said the comedian.

Week of March 1, 1958

Week of March 1, 1958

Television news -

January that it would begin flashing subliminal messages of

a public service nature within 90 days, but it looks like that

won’t happen - at all. The station had arranged for the

needed projectors with the Precon Process and Equipment

Company of New Orleans, builders of subliminal devices.

But the FCC seems to be ambiguous on the subject, and

KTLA doesn’t want to take the chance. However, a motion-

picture producer intends to use the technique within the

body of several feature films.

Tuesday night television -

CBS - Douglas Edwards with the news, Name That Tune,

Mr. Adams and Eve, Eve Arden Show, To Tell The Truth,

Red Skelton, $64,000 Question, Mickey Spillane’s Mike

Hammer

NBC - Treasure Hunt, Eddie Fisher, Adventure of McGraw,

Bob Cummings, the Californians, The Vise, Jack Paar

ABC - Sugarfoot, Wyatt Earp, Broken Arrow, Bell

Telephone Time, West Point, Twenty Six Men

Eddie Fisher - With George Gobel, Ethel Merman, Dody

Goodman.

Eve Arden - Liza finds her home overrun with oriental

children during a publicity stunt.

Sugarfoot - Sugarfoot aids his attractive boss when his

ranch is threatened with foreclosure.

Jack Paar - Bea Arthur, Cliff Arquette, Genevieve, Betty

Johnson, Georgio Tozzi.

At the movies -

Claire Bloom

Laughton

Week of March 1, 1958

The Last Paradise

The Awakening

Hudson, Robert Stack

David Niven

Elizabeth Taylor, Eve Marie Saint

Walt Disney’s Old Yeller

Desire Under The Elms

The Awakening