Week of May 15, 1959

At the fourth session of the foreign ministers conference in

western proposals for the concurrent settlement of the

problems of Germany and European security in four stages

across the next 30 months.

Premier Khrushchev says the western plan for Germany laid

down at Geneva “contains some matters which are worthy of

examination and which we shall not oppose.” In a Kremlin

speech accepting the Lenin peace prize, he called the

western proposal a “so-called peace plan” because there

was no peace behind it. He accused the West at Geneva of trying to provoke the

Soviet Union into sharp criticism. Meanwhile, Western diplomats say they may

have to negotiate a separate stopgap Berlin settlement with Russia after full

debate of rival East-West German peace plans.

President Eisenhower accepts diploma #1 from the new U.S. Air Force Academy

during an inspection of the Colorado Springs site before flying on to a four-

generation family reunion in Denver at the bedside of his 81-year-old mother-in-

law.

In Havana, Cuba - Government officials announce

the discovery of more than half a million dollars worth

of pesos in a safe deposit box belonging to the

company formed to operate the gambling casino in

the Hilton Hotel there. The government froze all of

the money except for a sum sufficient to pay the

salaries of employees to permit continued operation

of the casino.

Fidel Castro Jr. (9) son of Cuba’s prime minister continues to improve from

injuries suffered in an auto accident. Surgeons operated on the boy’s injured lung

for an hour.

products. Says GTE - the largest independent (non-Bell) company, a lot of sales

people are being trained to get new business from businesses. “Now we will be

able to go to businessmen and ask them what they want, other than lower rates.

By running a check in peak load periods of a business man’s calls, by learning

when he places most of his long distance calls, or whether people are being cut

off, we can spot trouble areas requiring changes. Once one of our sales people

Week of May 15, 1959

locates the particular problem a

business man is having, he will make a

report to our technical staff. They, in turn,

will be expected to evolve a complete

communications program to meet the

needs of each customer. Then it will be

up to the salesman to try to make the

sale. Maybe it will mean the introduction

of a new six-button telephone to enable a

customer to have internal communications with someone in the rear of his plant.

Or we might suggest that he install an electronic secretary to take calls and

messages when he is out of his office.”

Among the items GTE is seeking to promote for the home are: additional

extension phones in ebony or color; sound-booster phones for the hard-of-

hearing; dial-lighted phones and extra directory listings. For business customers -

these additional products:

Additional lines; intercom installations; loud-ringing bells and gongs and credit

cards for long distance calls. The credit cards are for persons who travel and

may want to place a call from a public phone, but have it charged to their offices.

Also for the home by the end of the year - no more harassing ringing doorbells

for housewives. A home communications system will enable the housewife to

pick up a telephone anywhere in the house and converse with the person at the

door through a speaker placed there.

nationwide strike of all labor if Congress harnesses unions

with anti-trust laws. “We can call a primary strike all across the

nation that will straighten out the employers for once and for

all.”

Motion pictures from space - the highest photographic record

of the earth yet disclosed, are shown at a special Air Force

conference. The pictures were taken from a 90-mile altitude, up to about 300

miles, the same view that Mercury astronauts can expect to seen when they are

in space. The film was taken from a special nose cone, mounted on a Thor

rocket.

Trends - Teenagers are marrying more than ever these days. Also, 4,250,000

babies were born last year.

Week of May 15, 1959

In a Gallup Poll - 61% approve of the job President Eisenhower is doing... 23%

disapprove and 16% no opinion. That’s the highest in two years.

The 1960 Winter Olympic Games will be shown on home television. ABC says it

has acquired the exclusive worldwide television rights for the event at Squaw

Valley, CA. The telecasts will be both live and delayed.

Hitchcock picture to have a baby. She’s married to actor

Mel Ferrer.

John Wayne says he wants out of the movie “The

Alaskans.” The movie is being delayed. Meantime,

Wayne begins shooting “The Alamo” in Brackettsville,

Texas in September.

More John Wayne - the actor confirms he’s going to be

a father again. His Peruvian wife, Pilar, is expecting

what will be their second child.

Actor Mickey Rooney (38) is divorced by his fourth wife, redheaded actress

Elaine Mahnken. Mooney announces he will marry blond model Barbara Ann

Thomson in a year.

The Chester, Doc and Kitty trio of “Gunsmoke” has been booked for a three-day

appearance with rodeos at the New Mexico State Fair.

Eddie Fisher and his bride, Elizabeth

Mediterranean for a honeymoon on their

rented yacht.

At the Sands in Las Vegas - Nat King

Cole and Rowan & Martin.

Best selling books -

Exodus - Leon Uris

Dear and Glorious Physician - Taylor Caldwell

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak

The Devil in Bucks County - Edmund Schiddel

Week of May 15, 1959

Mrs ‘Arris Goes to Paris - Paul Gallico

Lady Chatterley’s Lover - D.H. Lawrence

Mine Enemy Grows Older - Alexander King

Only in America - Harry Golden

Elizabeth The Great - Elizabeth Jenkins

‘Twixt Twelve and Twenty - Pat Boone

Collision Course - Alvin Moscow

How I Turned 1,000 Into a Million in Real Estate In My Spare Time - William

Nickerson

Brotherhood of Evil - Frederick Sondern Jr.

I Remember - Boris Pasternak

This Monday on the Mickey Mouse Club - The

Mouseketeers continue their how-to-snap-it course in

animal photography with Look Magazine photog Earl

Theisen as coach.

This Friday night on NBC-TV - “Kovacs on Music” - a

one-hour special with Edie Adams, Andre Previn, James

Darren, Louis Jourdan. “Kovacs goes cultural (kind of)

as he dives into Swan Lake... conducts a string quartet

playing commercials ... monkeys with the Nairobi Trio... and generally goes nuts

with notes!”

Thursday Night Television -

CBS - Invisible Man, December Bride, Yancy Derringer, Zane Grey Theatre,

Playhouse 90

NBC - Texas Rodeo, Lawless Years, Too You to Go Steady, Laugh Line,

Tennessee Ernie Ford, Groucho Marx, Masquerade Party

ABC - Leave it to Beaver, Zorro, The Real McCoys, Pat Boone, Rough Riders,

Damon Runyan Theatre

Leave It To Beaver - Wally adopts a new hairstyle and

makes June angry and Ward tolerantly unhappy.

Zorro - Zorro sets out to find the culprit who tried to

assassinate the governor of California. Guy Williams stars.

Debut - Too Young To Go Steady - Donald Cook and Joan

Bennett star

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Laugh-Line - Comedy panel show

Berman. Dick Van Dyke hosts.

Tennessee Ernie Ford - Edgar

Bergen and Charlie McCarthy

guest.

Rough Riders - Lt Kerby is

mistaken for Wild Bill Hickok and

holds a band of desperadoes at

bay.

Music news - Nat King Cole comments in the current issue

of down Beat magazine about the so-called top-40 surveys in

radio and the DJ’s who are playing the music: “I know some

of these boys and you can’t tell me they like the stuff they’re

playing… So and so makes a record and right away, it’s

boomed as a million-seller. I’ve been in the business ling

enough to know they can’t press a million records in the short

time they wait after its initial release, not to mention the even

longer time it takes to distribute and sell them.”

Pop music this week in 1959 -

THE HAPPY ORGAN - Dave “Baby” Cortez

(Now And Then There’s) A FOOL SUCH AS I - Elvis Presley

PINK SHOE LACES - Dodie Stevens

COME SOFTLY TO ME - Fleetwoods

SORRY (I Ran All The Way Home) - Impalas

KANSAS CITY - Wilbert Harrison

KOOKIE, KOOKIE (Lend Me Your Comb) - Edd Byrnes &

Connie Stevens

TURN ME LOOSE - Fabian

SINCE I DON’T HAVE YOU - Skyliners

GUITAR BOOGIE SHUFFLE -Virtues

VENUS - Frankie Avalon

A TEENAGER IN LOVE - Dion & Belmonts

TELL HIM NO - Travis & Bob

ENCHANTED - Platters

THAT’S WHY (I Love You So) - Jackie Wilson

THREE STARS - Tommy Dee

TAKE A MESSAGE TO MARY - Everly Brothers

Sunday night ABC

Week of May 15, 1959

DREAM LOVER - Bobby Darin

I NEED YOUR LOVE TONIGHT - Elvis Presley

ONLY YOU - Franck Pourcel

SEA CRUISE - Frankie Ford

FOR A PENNY - Pat Boone

QUIET VILLAGE - Martin Denny

GOODBYE JIMMY, GOODBYE -

Kathy Linden

ENDLESSLY - Brook Benton

IT’S JUST A MATTER OF TIME -

Brook Benton

SO FINE - Fiestas

THE TIJUANA JAIL - Kingston Trio

SIX NIGHTS A WEEK - Crests

IT’S LATE - Ricky Nelson

COME TO ME - Marv Johnson

NEVER BE ANYONE ELSE BUT

YOU - Ricky Nelson

EVERYBODY LIKES TO CHA CHA

CHA - Sam Cooke

SOMEONE - Johnny Mathis

THIS SHOULD GO ON FOREVER - Rod Bernard

GUESS WHO - Jesse Belvin

POOR JENNY - Everly Brothers

IT DOESN’T MATTER ANYMORE - Buddy Holly

PLEASE MR. SUN - Tommy Edwards

YEP! - Duane Eddy & Rebels

It’s Just A Matter of Time - Brook Benton

Almost Grown - Chuck Berry

That Is Why - Jackie Wilson

Kansas City - Wilbert Harrison

So Fine - Fiestas

Happy Organ - Dave Baby Cortez

Pink Shoe Laces - Dodie Stevens

Where Were You On Our Wedding Day - Lloyd

Price

This Should Go On Forever - Rod Bernard

Since I Don’t Have You - Skyliners

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Al Lohman is now on WABC. He would go on to

bigger fame in Los Angeles has one-half of Lohman

and Barkley during the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s.

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Week of May 15, 1959

White Lightning - George Jones

Home - Jim Reeves

Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton

I’m In Love Again - George Morgan

When It’s Springtime In Alaska - Johnny Horton

Black Land Farmer - Frankie Miller

A Thousand Miles Ago - Webb Pierce

Set Him Free - Skeeter Davis

Luther Plays The Boogie - Johnny Cash (Sun)

Don’t Take Your Guns to Town - Johnny Cash (Columbia)

Frankie’s Man, Johnny - Johnny Cash (Columbia)

Thanks A Lot - Johnny Cash (Sun)

Top albums this week in 1959 -

Peter Gunn - Henry Mancini

Come Dance With Me - Frank

Sinatra

77 Sunset Strip - Soundtrack

Gigi - Soundtrack

Still, More Sing Along - Mitch Miller

From the Hungary I - Kingston Trio

Open Fire Two Guitars - Johnny

Mathis

Billy Vaughn Plays

Hymns - Tennessee Ernie Ford

Flower Drum Song - original cast

The Sleeping Beauty - Darlene Gillespie (Mickey

Mouse)

Fun In Shariland - Shari Lewis (RCA Bluebird)

Zorro - Stan Jones, Henry Claving and Jerome

Courtland (Mickey Mouse)

Bambi - Shirley Temple (RCA Bluebird)

Tom Thumb - soundtrack (Lion L)

Peter Rabbit, Goldilocks and Other Great Tales For

Growing Boys and Girls - Norman Leyden (RCA

Bluebird)

Week of May 15, 1959

Aesop’s Fables - The Hanky Pank Players (RCA Bluebird)

Wyatt Earp, Cheyenne and other TV Favorites - various artists (RCA Bluebird)

Music news - Seems that housewives are having trouble getting into the new

stereo phonographs. The object to “moving the couch out of the way” to make

room for the two separate speakers, or they don’t like the trailing wires.

Sam Phillips believes that pop is moving out of rock ‘n’ roll and the kids “got tired

of the ruckus” and we are moving into a period of greater variety in taste.

In Elvis Presley’s new Gold Standard

45 EP, “Touch of Gold,” RCA Victor is

including a Presley fan card in each

sleeve. The EP includes “Hard

Headed Woman,” Good Rockin’

Tonight,” “Don’t” and “I Beg of You.”

GE announces a new series of

stereo-magnetic phonograph

cartridges called the VR-22 series.

Major improvements in response,

separation, compliance and freedom

from hum have been achieved with

the VR-22 series.

Radio news - Johnny Holliday,

formerly with WRVM, Rochester, NY joins WHK, Cleveland.

U.S. Army as an “Honorary Recruiter” for services

rendered during his recent March of Dimes sleep

deprivation experiment.

At the movies -

Young, Rod Taylor, Jim Backus, Claire Kelly

Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr, Pearl Bailey

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Mel Ferrer

Brazzi, Maurice Chevalier

Woodward

Randall, Paul Douglas

Jack Lemmon

MacMurray

Barbara Rush, Alexis Smith, Brian Keith, Diane

Brewster

Diane Brewster