Week of March 15, 1956

President Eisenhower declares that he would be happy to have Vice-President

Richard Nixon on any political ticket with him.

Visiting London - Soviet Deputy Premier Georgi Malenkov, political heir of Josef

Stalin, cuts short a sightseeing tour to contact the Kremlin on the newest efforts

to crush the myth of his old master.

Security measures are imposed in some areas of the Soviet Union because of

repercussions from the attack on Stalin by the Soviet leadership.

The second of two blizzards in 48 hours sweeps the East with New York City

getting paralyzed by the blizzard.

Minnesota’s democratic Presidential primary.

The removal of a large picture of Stalin in Communist

East Germany brings on a small-scale riot - touching off

fighting between Communist party members. The 10 by

13 foot picture was removed from the front of party

headquarters in Finsterwalde.

Margaret Truman discloses that she will be married to

newspaperman Clifton Daniel in a “very simple ceremony”

April 21 in a church in Independence, MO.

Mickey Cohen’s wife Lavonne asks for a divorce after 15 years of marriage. She

charges cruelty.

Sports - Welter Weight Title - Johnny Saxton defeats Carmen Basilio in a

unanimous 15-round decision.

Emmy Awards -

- “You’ll Never Get Rich.”

Best actress - continuing performance - Lucille Ball

- “I Love Lucy.”

Other winners - Perry Como, Art Carney, Nannette

Fabray, Lloyd Nolan, Dinah Shore, Mary Martin.

Edward R. Murrow for best news commentator.

Week of March 15, 1956

Best original teleplay writing - Rod Serling for “Patterns” Kraft TV Theater

Best action or adventure series - Disneyland for “Davy Crockett.”

Best Variety Series - Ed Sullivan

Entertainment news -

Broadway Open To Rave Reviews

- “My Fair Lady” opens at the Mark

Hellinger Theatre. It’s Alan Jay

Lerner’s adaptation of Bernard

Shaw’s “Pygmalion.” Book and

lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and

music by Frederick Loewe.

Herman Levin is the producer.

Cast includes:

Julie Andrews as Eliza Doolittle

Rex Harrison - Henry Higgins

Stanley Holloway - Alfred P.

Doolittle

Robert Coote - Colonel Pickering

Viola Roache - Mrs. Eynsford Hill

Cathleen Nesbitt - Mrs. Higgins

Television news -

Though she won an Emmy for her work on “Caesar’s Hour” on NBC, Nanette

Fabray says she left the show due to a “contractual impasse” with Comedian Sid

Caesar.

“The Lucy Show,” - the re-run edition of “I Love Lucy” will be discontinued after

April 7. CBS airs the re-runs early Saturday nights.

The $64,000 Question with mc Hal March has been on the air for 42 weeks and

has given away about a half-million dollars. Most contestants who get beyond the

$4000 plateau never miss a question.

near his midtown apartment. He was 61. Lately, he was a

panelist on the CBS Sunday night program “What’s My

Line?”

Week of March 15, 1956

Thursday night television -

CBS - Douglas Edwards with the news,

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, Bob

Cummings Show, Chrysler Showers of

Stars, Four-Star Playhouse, Johnny Carson,

Quiz Kids

NBC - John Cameron Swayze News

Caravan, Groucho Marx, Dragnet, the

People’s Choice, Ford Theatre, Lux Video

Theatre, Tonight Show

ABC - Lone Ranger, Life Is Worth Living,

Stop the Music, Star Tonight, Down You

Go, Dangerous Assignment, Racket Squad

Tonight Show - Art Blakey and his Jazz

Messengers.

Remote Control Changes Channels

And Fine Tunes

Music news -

up on the show’s three most commercial tunes - “I Could Have Danced All

Night,” “On The Street Where You Live.” And “I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her

Face.”

March 30 show - The Line-up for deejay Tommy (Dr.

Jive) Smalls fourth Apollo appearance in a six-month

and ray, Fi-Tones, Sugar and Spice, Brook Benton,

Claudia Swan, the Solitaires and the Buddy Griffin Band.

ABC-Paramount Records will peddle its Official Mickey

Mouse Club line on a mail-order basis through Walt

Disney’s ABC-TV “Mickey Mouse Club” show beginning

April 1. Listeners will be offered one record (78 or 45)

postpaid, plus a photo of emcee Jimmie Dodd and the Mousketeers for $1. The

show is viewed by approximately 16.5 million fans per program.

Week of March 15, 1956

Webb Pierce resigns as a regular the Grand Ole Opry. He left three months ago

after a three-year association. He’ll also be featured once a moth on ABC-TV’s

“Ozark Jubilee” from Springfield, MO.

Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, Betty Amos and George Jones just

played Tyler Tex to a sold-out crowd of 2,500.

Julius La Rosa makes his debut a the New York nitery - the Latin Quarter.

Week of March 15, 1956

Top Rhythm & Blues -

Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Teenagers

Great Pretender - Platters

Drawn In My Own Tears - Ray Charles

Eddie My Love - Teen Queens

Tutti Frutti - Little Richard

Bo Weevil/Don’t Blame It On Me - Fats Domino

Speedoo - Cadillacs

Devil or Angel/Hey Doll Baby - Clovers

Ain’t That Lovin’ You, Baby/ - Jimmy Reed

No Money Down - Chuck Berry

I’ll Be Home - Flamingos

Need Your Love So Bad - Little Willie John

Top Country & Western -

Heartbreak Hotel/I Was the One - Elvis Presley

I Forgot To Remember To Forget/Mystery Train -

Elvis Presley

Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins

Why, Baby, Why? - Red Sovine and Webb Pierce

Love, Love, Love - Webb Pierce

You’re Free To Go/I Feel Like Cryin’ - Cal Smith

Eat, Drink and Be Merry - Porter Wagoner

So Doggone Lonesome/Folsom Prison Blues -

Johnny Cash

I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby - Louvin Brothers

You And Me/No One But You - Red Foley & Kitty Wells

Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford

At the movies -

Picnic - William Holden, Kim Novak

Seven Wonders of the world

Carousel

Comanche! - Dana Andrews

I’ll Cry Tomorrow - Susan Hayward

The Rose Tattoo - Burt Lancaster, Anna Magnani

Week of March 15, 1956