Week of May 1, 1955

The Eisenhower administration discloses plans to give nearly a billion dollars

worth of new military aid to Korea, Indo-China and the Chinese in Formosa.

Germany announces that a Soviet bloc military alliance (to

rival NATO) will be set up as early as next week. The

alliance plan calls for rearming East Germany and places

all the armies of East European Communist countries

under a unified command.

In a Gallop poll - president Eisenhower’s popularity dips

slightly over the last two months. 68% approve of the job

he’s doing, down from 71% two months ago.

Fewer children than usual have been stricken with infantile paralysis across the

nation, but it’s still too soon to credit antipolio vaccination for the decrease.

Hopefully, it’s working.

Forecasters say 20 years from now, you’ll zip from Washington to Paris in less

than three hours. For shorter hops, you’ll board a 30-passenger helicopter bus

that will whisk you around the countryside at three miles a minute. Your family

car will be nuclear powered and will be equipped with electronic devices that will

see traffic conditions far ahead, and an automatic brain that will park the car for

you. In the kitchen, ultrasonic waves will clean dishes.

convinced that polygamy is still being practiced in a

hamlet on the Utah-Arizona border and only federal

legislation can wipe it out. The Senator was on hand

at a hearing at the hamlet of Short Creek. All 54 adult

residents showed up. Langer said after the hearing

that there is “no question in my mind that the people

of Short Creek believe that under their religion they

can practice polygamy.”

At the mart - Ground Beef - .29lb ... Welch’s new

grape treat - “Fruit Of The Vine” - 8oz jar .29 ... Can

of Star Kist tuna - .27

While at the mart - pick up SEBB from the pharmaceutical division of Max Factor

& Co. SEBB contains a new scientific formula for relief from and control of

Week of May 1, 1955

dandruff and itchy scalp.

defeats Cuban fighter Nino Valdes to retain the world’s light-

heavyweight boxing championship. Moore won after going the full

15 rounds by decision.

Catcher Yogi Berra’s muff of an outfielder’s throw after Bob

Avila’s bases-loaded single in the seventh inning gets the

Cleveland Indians a 7-4 victory over the Yankees.

giving Billy Hoeft and the Tigers a 4-2 triumph over the Boston

Red Sox.

Gene Littler wins the third Tournament of Champions and its

$10,000 first prize in Las Vegas. He won by a 13-stroke

margin.

On the witness stand, she told a judge he was

“distant and cool.”

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s mother, Mrs Jolie Gabor says

there will be no wedding to international playboy

Porfirio Rubirosa. It’s not that the love has gone,

but her daughter has bigger plans in Hollywood. If

they married, they would live in Paris and “she

would have to give that up.”

Some predictions by the year 1975 - as told to the businessmen in the

Washington DC area by the executive VP of the Chamber of Commerce - Arch

Booth: You’ll be able to fly from Washington DC to Paris in less than three hours

... Your family car will be nuclear-powered and will be equipped with electronic

devices that will see traffic conditions ahead plus “a brain” that will park the car

for you ... For you ladies in the kitchen, you’ll never have to wash another dish or

clean clothes - ultrasonic waves will do it for you. A twist of the dial and your

clothes will automatically be pressed ...

. Enter a darkened room; wave your hand

before a light control panel and suddenly the room will fill with light! Another wave

emits colors of fluorescent tubes to blend or contrast with furniture or

decorations. Automatic eyes will close windows and doors as the weather

changes. Those same eyes will be able to control temperatures throughout the

Week of May 1, 1955

house.

E. Krinov, goes on Soviet radio to allay Russian fear that a Martian space ship

had landed. Krinov, secretary of the meteorite committee of the Soviet Academy

of Science told his radio audience that the Martian space ship was really a

meteorite. The excitement was set off by a popular Soviet science magazine.

Ford Motor Corp adds the following color combinations for the Spring season -

black top with coral mist body, Neptune green top with mountain green body,

showshoe white top with mountain green body, waterfall blue top with regatta

blue bady and snowshoe white top with regatta blue body.

Kentucky Derby.

R.H. (Red) McDaniel - the leading trainer of

thoroughbreds in the United States commits suicide by

jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. Three men watched

him get out of his expensive car and jump. The body was

recovered by the Coast Guard 24 minutes later.

Cassidy). The home was thoroughly ransacked while

he was out of town. Telephoned in New York, the

actor says he can’t return home until next week.

In the new issue of Look Magazine - the never told--

before story of what completely changed Marlon

Brando’s character and outlook on life. What are his

plans for marriage and his future hopes as an actor?

Read the story for Marlon Brando’s fight for

acceptance as a sensitive, intelligent human being. It’s all in the new issue of

LOOK - with Brando on the cover.

Bestsellers include - “Sincerely, Willis Wayde” - John Marquand, The View From

Pompey’s Head’ - Hamilton Basso, “”Gift From the Sea” - Ann Morrow Lindbergh,

“How To Live 365 Days A Year” - John Schindler.

Television news - Kraft Theater, seen Wednesday nights on NBC sets the record

as television’s oldest nonstop one-hour program. The show has been doing it for

eight straight years and 480 hour-long dramas.

Week of May 1, 1955

Boston’s first noncommercial television station hits the

air as WGBH-TV channel 2 signs-on. The station is being

operated with the assistance and cooperation of the

Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council.

WGBH-TV programs will draw heavily on the area’s

educational and cultural institutions for talent. First

regular program was “Come and See” a program of

music and story telling for young viewers. WGBH-TV is

Don’t miss “The Elgin Hour” Monday nights on ABC-TV.

Sponsored by Elgin watches.

Tuesday Night TV includes - Dinah Shore, See It Now,

Stop The Music, Meet Millie, Life With Father, Halls Of

Ivy, Danny Thomas, Elgin Hour, Red Skelton Show,

Danger, Truth Or Consequences.

- Georgia Gibbs, “Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom” -

Perez Prado, “The Ballad Of Davy

Crocket” - Bill Hayes, “The Crazy Otto” -

Johnny Maddox, “Unchained Melody” -

Crocket” - Fess Parker, “Play Me Hearts

And Flowers” - Johnny Desmond, “The Breeze And I” - Caterina

Valente, “Darling Je Vous Aime Beaucoup” - Nat King Cole.

Radio news - WNEW radio is the top music station in the

country. This week, The New York Times does an article on the

three people who select the records played on the station.

WNEW has such influence on radio stations; these three can actually create hit

records. They are WNEW record librarians Mike Camito, Al Trilling and Bob

Taylor.

These fellows are so influential, Mitch Miller of Columbia records says “It’s

money in the bank when the boys in that record library look up after listening and

say ‘that’s a good one’ or ‘you’ve got something there.’” The article says WNEW

receives between 75 and 100 records each week and that “censorship” is an

important part of the job.

Week of May 1, 1955

Orson Welles and new bride Paoula Mori, the Countess deGirfalco of Italy

At the movies -

Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor

Robert Ryan

Kelly, William Holden

June Allyson

Purdom

Caron

Parker, Roger Moore

Week of May 1, 1955

Week of May 1, 1955