Week of March 22, 1959

Thee Dalai Lama , (23) young spiritual leader of Tibet

is placed under house arrest by the Communist

Chinese and is being “persuaded” to proceed to

Pelping. The Reds fear the continued presence of the

Dalai Lama in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa is lending

moral support to Tibetan tribesmen who have been

fighting a guerrilla resistance ever since the

Communist invasion of 1950.

President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan

reach agreement on the need for negotiating with the

Soviet Union for a European settlement and general

accord on the terms on which they will meet Nikita

Khrushchev at a summit conference. Macmillan has

been in Washington with the President.

An 800-pound lion breaks loose at the beginning of the Ringling Bros. Barnum &

Bailey Circus at Madison Square Garden, terrifying some 3,000 in the audience.

The lion had just been turned loose in the center ring of the three-ring circus,

along with eight tigers, when it knocked over its cage, fought with one of the

tigers and then clawed its way through the mesh enclosure around the ring. It

was cornered and trapped in a corridor 15 minutes later.

More New York - A 10,000 gallon water tank collapses atop a six-story loft

building on Manhattan’s west side. It dropped through three stories. Eleven were

injured.

Some best selling books -

Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak

The Ugly American - W. Lederer and E. Burdick

Exodus - Leon Uris

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

From the Terrace - John O’Hara

Lady L - Romain Gary

Mr. ‘Arris goes to Paris - Paul Gallico

Mrs. Bridge - Evan Connell

Tenderloin - S. H. Adams

Twixt Twelve and Twenty - Pat Boone

Only In America - Harry Golden

Mine Enemy Grows Older - Alexander King

Week of March 22, 1959

Passing - best selling author Raymond Chandler (70) of

bronchial pneumonia. Some of his books - “The Big

Sleep,” “Farewell My Lovely,” and “The High Window.”

Hollywood news -

Passing of suicide - actor Grant

Withers (55) - from an overdose of

sleeping pills. He had a string of film

credits including “Fort Apache,”

“Fighting Kentuckian,” and “Lady

Godiva.”

Columbia says that Dick Clark will produce and star in two

movies. A top TV favorite of the young set, Clark authors “Dick Clark Speaking”

in a weekly newspaper column.

Sunday night television -

CBS - Lassie, Jack Benny Show, Ed Sullivan Show, G.E. Theater, Alfred

Hitchcock, Richard Diamond, What’s My Line?

NBC - Steve Allen, Dinah Shore, Loretta Young

ABC - You Asked For It, Maverick, The Lawman, Colt .45,

Deadline For Action, Meet McGraw

Lassie - A jealous monkey causes havoc for Lassie.

Steve Allen - With Sammy Davis Jr., Joanne Gilbert,

Sessue Hayakawa, Frank Gorshin

Maverick - Bart becomes suspicious of a woman he likes

when is robbed of $1,500.

Colt .45 stars Wade Preston as Christopher Colt.

Dinah Shore - With guests Cliff Arquette, Cesar Romero,

Mahalia Jackson, and Ginger Rogers.

Alfred Hitchcock - A Scotland yard detective is assigned

the job of stopping a wealthy widow from smuggling a

necklace out of England. Stars Roger Moore and Hazel

Court.

Week of March 22, 1959

Monday night television

CBS - CBS News with Doug Edwards, The Texan, Father Knows Best, Danny

Thomas Show, Ann Southern Show, Desilu Playhouse

NBC - Buckskin, Restless Gun, Wells Fargo, Peter Gunn, Hall of Fame, Jack

Paar Show

ABC - Texas Rangers, Cross Current, Bold Journey, Voice of Firestone, John

Daly news

Buckskin - A Bible-quoting saddle bum comes to town to reveal surprising

personal history.

Wells Fargo - While organizing a relay for Wells Fargo, Jim becomes involved in

murder.

Peter Gunn - A bowling meeting turns to murder.

Television news - ABC cancels “The Mickey Mouse Club.” One of the problems

is that it was too expensive to produce. The show airs at 5:30p.

WNEW-TV (channel 5) in New York reports that it made money last year - the

first time ever for channel 5. The station recently changed ownership from

DuMont to Metropolitan broadcasting.

Mike Wallace has a new quiz show pilot “Who Pays?” for NBC. Will it fly?

Tom Sarnoff, NBC v.p. in charge of production

and business affairs says that new techniques will

permit video tape to be edited “with the same

precision as motion picture film.”

More Disney - the studio now has 19 television writers. Five for “Zorro”, three for

“Elfego Baca,” Four on “Texas John Slaughter” and seven working on various

special assignments for ABC-TV’s “Walt Disney Presents” series.

More Disney - Roberta Shore , one of the stars of “Shaggy

Dog,” joins the Disneyland label. The 17 year-old singer-actress,

who formerly appeared on segments of the Mickey Mouse Club

will cut her initial single this week.

Week of March 22, 1959

Leave It To Beaver - Jerry Mathers (10) makes $550 per week on the series,

while Tony Dow (13) makes $500. Both went to see a judge about their savings.

Both are saving 15% of their salaries, but the judge would like them increased to

20%. Mathers was with his dad - Norman and Dow

was with his mom - Mrs. Muriel Dow.

Top syndicated shows -

Sea Hunt

Highway Patrol

Death Valley Days

26 Men

Mike Hammer

State Trooper

Silent Service

Popeye

MacKenzie’s Raiders

If You Had A Million

Cisco Kid

U.S. Marshal

Target

Sheriff of Cochise

Rescue 8

Burns ‘n’ Allen

Superman

Huckleberry Hound

Jeff’s Collie

San Francisco Beat

Top TV shows -

Gunsmoke (CBS) - 40.1

Wagon Train (NBC) - 38.3

Have Gun Will Travel (CBS) - 35.7

Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz (CBS) - 34.9

Danny Thomas (CBS) - 34.5

The Rifleman (ABC) - 34.0

Maverick (ABC) - 32.9

Wyatt Earp (ABC) - 31.8

Zane Grey Theatre (CBS) - 31.1

Wanted, Dead or Alive (CBS) - 30.6

Week of March 22, 1959

When in New York, don’t miss the Bonamo Magic Clown

over WNTA-TV (Channel 13). Doug

Anderson portrays Bonamo. Doug’s

actor, magician, puppeteer,

cartoonist, ventriloquist. If you want

him for bookings, call Pioneer 7-

5761. Sponsored by Bonamo’s

Turkish Taffy.

Radio news - Crowell-Collier, owners of top-40 KFWB, Los Angeles - are buying

their second radio station - KLX-AM (910) in Oakland near San Francisco. You

can bet they’ll change this station (and they will - to KEWB, a KFWB soundalike).

Music news -

A guest on Mike Wallace’s WNTA-TV program, WABC DJ

Martin Block says pressure to get air play by small company

labels is responsible for payola. “I get very suspicious when a

record comes to me on Monday and I play it on the air for the

first time on Monday afternoon, and that’s generally when other

disk jockeys get it, and Thursday, I will receive lists that show

this new records is way up on the list in popularity. They

haven’t had enough time to sell enough copies to know that

they’re tops is sales.”

Block said that the pressure of fly-by-night outfits was a definite factor in the

payola picture. Many of these labels get one singer and enough to finance one

recording session and then try to sell the master to a major company. If they can

create enough noise around the master, they can get a major company to put it

out.

In the Army now, Elvis Presley says, “I have no way of telling if my fame is

fading. I stay homesick all the time. I’d give my neck to be back. You just don’t

know.” RCA Victor has just released “I Need Your Love Tonight” back with “A

Fool Such As I” and dealer orders are over the million mark, so Elvis can fear

not. He’s a jeep driver near Bad Nauheim, Germany. He lives with his father and

grandma in a rented home. His days are spent in classroom study of map-

reading, compass work, cleaning his jeep, or out on the terrain in practice. As a

jeep driver, he’s taught to plant and locate munitions and scout work. Friday is GI

party night, scrubbing latrines and barracks until 10pm.

Week of March 22, 1959

Movies this week -

Gidget - Sandra Dee, James Darren , Cliff

Robertson

The Sound of Fury - Yul Brynner, Joanne

Woodward, Margaret Leighton, Stuart Whitman

Walt Disney’s The Shaggy Dog - Fred

MacMurray, Jean Hagen

Imitation of Life - Lana Turner, John Gavin,

Sandra Dee, Dan O’Herlihy

Rio Bravo - John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky

Nelson

Rally ‘Round the Flag Boys - Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Collins,

Jack Carson

Pop music this week in 1959 -

Venus - Frankie Avalon

CHARLIE BROWN - Coasters

ALVIN’S HARMONICA - David

Seville & Chipmunks

IT’S JUST A MATTER OF TIME -

Brook Benton

COME SOFTLY TO ME -

Fleetwoods

THE HAWAIIAN WEDDING SONG

- Andy Williams

STAGGER LEE - Lloyd Price

PETER GUNN - Ray Anthony &

Orchestra

IT’S LATE - Ricky Nelson

I’VE HAD IT - Bell Notes

PETITE FLEUR (Little Flower) -

Chris Barber’s Jazz Band

TRAGEDY - Thomas Wayne with

DeLons

SHE SAY (Oom Dooby Doom) - Diamonds

NEVER BE ANYONE ELSE BUT YOU - Ricky Nelson

DONNA - Ritchie Valens

THE CHILDREN’S MARCHING SONG - Cyril Stapleton & Orchestra

I CRIED A TEAR - LaVern Baker

IF I DIDN’T CARE - Connie Francis

Week of March 22, 1959

PLEASE MR. SUN - Tommy Edwards

PINK SHOE LACES - Dodie Stevens

TALL PAUL - Annette (Funicello)

I GOT A WIFE - Mark IV

WHERE WERE YOU (On Our Wedding

Day)? -Lloyd Price

SINCE I DON’T HAVE YOU - Skyliners

16 CANDLES - Crests

I’ll Be With You In) APPLE BLOSSOM

TIME - Tab Hunter

TOMBOY - Perry Como

SEA CRUISE - Frankie Ford

LONELY TEARDROPS - Jackie Wilson

MAY YOU ALWAYS - McGuire Sisters

GUITAR BOOGIE SHUFFLE - Virtues

(All Of A Sudden) MY HEART SINGS - Paul Anka

SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES - Platters

THIS SHOULD GO ON FOREVER - Rod Bernard

THE STORY OF MY LOVE - Conway Twitty

THERE MUST BE A WAY - Joni James

RAW-HIDE - Link Wray & Wraymen

SORRY (I Ran All The Way Home) - Impalas

THE ALL AMERICAN BOY - Bill Parsons

THE MORNING SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN - Tommy Edwards