Week of May 1, 1950

Algier Hiss is disbarred in New York State. The convicted perjurer and onetime

top State department officially can no longer practice law. Hiss is free on bail,

pending appeal of the conviction after sentenced to five years in prison.

May Day celebration in Russia as Soviet air force

planes stage a spectacular peacetime air show over

Red Square. Premier Stalin , dressed in his fawn-

colored uniform, led his fellow officials to the top of the

red marble tomb of Lenin as the 10 o’clock chimes

rang.

Chinese Nationalists charge that new jet fighters of

Russia’s Far East air force “have definitely joined the Chinese Communist air

force” in flying civil war missions.

A shouting row breaks out in the Senate over Sen. McCarthy’s charges of

Communism in the State Department. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts

demands closed hearings on further testimony in the Owen Lattlmore case.

Changes mind - President Truman agrees to give Senate investigators the State

Department loyalty files in 81 cases cited by Sen. McCarthy in his Communism-

in-the-government charges.

Sen. McCarthy accuses the Truman administration of

“deceit and dishonesty” in making available some

government loyalty files to Senate Communist investigators.

It’s a “phony offer of phony files,” declared McCarthy.

McCarthy also charges that “Operation Whitewash” is being

conducted by the democratic-controlled Senate committee

which is looking into his contentions that the State

department is riddled with Communists and Red

sympathizers.

Occupation commander Gen. MacArthur calls Japan’s

Communist party “an avowed satellite of an international predatory force” and

again raises the question of whether it should be outlawed.

Lay off Baltics - recently, there have been a number of pre-emptive moves by

Russia to gain some control of the area. Britain demands “urgently” that the

Soviet government explain why a Russian warship seized a British fishing trawler

in the White Sea.

Week of May 1, 1950

In Florida - Rep. George Smathers wins the U.S. Senate

seat held for 14 years by “new deal” vet Claude Pepper.

Sen. McCarthy says that President Truman either was

seeking “political advantage” or was poorly informed in saying

Communism is not a major force in this country.

Secretary of State Acheson sets out for Europe with a

warning that the non-Communist world faces “increasingly

crucial tests in the years immediately ahead.”

A Gallup Poll finds war threat is considered by American voters the most

important problem facing the nation today. That’s followed by economic

problems, unemployment, Communism, Atomic bomb control, strikes and labor

troubles and housing.

The American Psychiatric Association says that will power is still the only cure for

alcoholism and that Antabuse, the newest drug is useful not no home remedy.

How much does the average

person eat? - An Agriculture

Department report says

consumption this year is likely to

average about 3250 calories a

day for each person, 10 more

calories than last year’s average.

The average farmer’s wife needs

2600 calories a day.

Average city housewife needs

2300.

Active farmer - 3500-4000.

Average nursing mother - 3000.

Technology - Color television is adding new words and phrases to the

language:

Dot interlace - scanning a color image.

Color sampling sequence - Order in which the three primary colors are sampled

or handled in transmission.

Color fringing - Unnatural fringes of color at the edges of objects moving rapidly.

Week of May 1, 1950

Hotel heir Conrad (Nick) Hilton

Jr. and actress Elizabeth Taylor

are married. The ceremony took

place in the Church of the Good

Shepherd in Beverly Hills.

Sports - At a recent night game

between the Giants and Dodgers,

Leo Durocher was caught with a

television microphone open - and

that’s one thing you can’t do around

Leo. He was heard to say things

during an argument with umpire Babe Penelli, in what was described as a “vulgar

outburst.”

At the movies -

No Sad Songs For Me - Margaret Sullivan, Wendell Corey

No Man Of Her Own - Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund

D.O.A. - Edmond O’Brien, Pamela Britton

Young Man With A Horn - Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day

Perfect Strangers - Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan

My Foolish Heart - Dana Andrews , Susan

Hayward

South Sea Sinner - Shelley Winters

The Reformer and the Redhead - June Allyson, Dick

Powell

Nancy Goes To Rio - Jane Powell, Ann Southern

The Big Lift - Montgomery Clift, Paul Douglas

Key to the City - Clark Gable, Loretta Young

The Yellow Cab Man - Red Skelton

Samson and Delilah - Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature,

George Sanders, Angela Lansbury