Week of March 15, 1951

Seoul falls to the allies with a fight. Main Red forces abandon the out-flanked

ancient capital in a general retreat all across Korea.

Winston Churchill moved the Conservative

Party’s campaign for a general election from

Parliament to Britain’s living rooms tonight with a

radio appeal for “a broad-based government

resting on a clear and strong majority.” He warned

of “the dangers of world peace which come from a

weak divided and largely disregarded Britain.”

A mass flight of American Shooting Star jet planes

bomb and strafe Red targets on the south bank of

the Yalu River in full view of a big Communist air

base just across the Manchurian border.

The Institute of Life Insurance says there will be more than 2.5 million more

women than men in 1960. “At birth today, girls have a life expectancy around five

years longer than boys.”

Hollywood news - Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, mother of actress Katherine

Hepburn is found dead in her bead in Bloomfield, CT. She was widely known for

her crusading leadership in the birth control movement, was discovered by her

husband, Dr. Thomas N. Hepburn.

Television news -

Burl Ives completes a half-hour pilot titled “Blue Beard” for a

proposed “Famous Tales” series he is producing with another

company.

Thursday night television -

CBS - The Stork Club, Burns and Allen, The Show Goes On,

Alan Young Show, Big Town, Truth or Consequences, Drama

NBC - Groucho Marx, Peter Lind Hayes, Jack Haley Revue, Martin Kane

ABC - Lone Ranger, Stop the Music, Holiday Hotel, Blind Date

DuMont - Broadway In Hollywood

Music news - following market research, Columbia records decides to cut back,

but not eliminate its seven-inch 33-rpm records.

Week of March 15, 1951

Wow! Now Beany puppets. Check your local listings for time and channel.

Nat King Cole cancels more than a month of engagements in the east to contest

the Government’s seizure of his $85,000 Hollywood home and his $4,000

Cadillac for back taxes.

After its adoption as the theme to WCBS-TV’s “The Late

Show” - The Syncopated Clock has become a hot

seller with all the major record companies rushing to

making a cover version. WCBS-TV is playing the original

version by LeRoy Anderson on Decca Records. The

song was originally issued a few months ago as part of

an Anderson album, but someone at WCBS-TV liked it

and the station then began using it. Lyric versions are

being issued by Fred Waring and the Three Suns.