Week of November 5, 1955
Big Four meeting In Geneva - Soviet Foreign
Minister Molotov unequivocally rejects western
proposals for German reunification and for security
of Europe in such harsh terms as to render barren
all further efforts at an authentic compromise during
the remaining life of the Big Four conference...
Later, having suspended their efforts to reunify
Germany, the three Foreign Ministers turn their
debate with Molotov to another quest for
disarmament.
President Eisenhower returns to the capital. With a
crowd of 5000 - head by Vice-President Nixon, the
President walked unaided down the ramp from his
plane after a flight from Denver. “I am deeply
honored that so many of you should come down to
welcome Mrs Eisenhower and me back to Washington. It has been a little longer
stay than we had planned, but the circumstances you will understand.”
Carlos Colmbra de Luz, temporary President of Brazil is ousted by the army.
Some Cabinet Ministers are reported under arrest. De Luz was succeeded by
Gen Alvaro Fiuza De Castro who was called out of retirement.
Gen. David Sarnoff ; chairman of the board of Radio Corp
of American (RCA) demonstrates a 50-cent phonograph
that could be the answer to radio jamming behind the Iron
Curtain. He said it is the answer to the need he felt for a
device which could bring a message without being subject
either to radio jamming or a source of electricity and which
was prices so “millions could be delivered gratis.” The little
machine, said Sarnoff, is unbreakable and could be
dropped by air behind the Iron or Bamboo Curtain. “It is so simply designed that it
could be assembled and separated by the simplest people.”
In a Gallup poll - If a Democratic Presidential primary were
held this week in all 48 states - Adlai E. Stevenson if Illinois
would be on top, followed by Estes Kefauver of Tennessee,
Averell Harriman of New York, Sam Rayburn of Texas and
Paul H. Douglas of Illinois.
Stevenson - 34%
Kefauver - 24%
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Harriman - 8%
Rayburn - 7%
Douglas - 5%
Actress Jill Jarmyn (23) files a battery complaint against
actress Susan Hayward. The incident took place in the
bedroom of the home of actor Donald Barry, who is dating
both of them. Miss Jarmyn said she walked into the back
door of Barry’s home - “the door was open and I thought I
would go in and have coffee with Don, like I have before.
Inside, I first saw Barry. Seconds later, Miss Hayward, clad in
polka dot pajamas, made her entrance. She came into the
room screaming ‘who is this’ and started swinging at me with
a clothes brush. She hit me on the head with it.” Barry then separated them, but
soon, Miss Hayward “came at me again, this time with a lighted cigarette. We
wrestled then and we fell over a coffee table. Finally, Don dragged her off me
and I left.”
Frank Sinatra is now one of the hottest items in
show business today. “I’m in demand - fortunately
yes, citing ‘From Here to Eternity’ as the turning
point. All of these wonderful roles came together -
‘Guys and Dolls,’ ‘The Tender Trap,’ ‘Golden Arm’
and I have got five planned ahead, including two for
my own company - a pretty even spit between
straight parts and musicals. I still want to play clubs,
meet the people.” About television, Sinatra says, “I
don’t know - three or four special things a year,
probably like ‘Our Town.’
Bestsellers -
Marjorie Morningstar - Herman Wauk
Auntie Mame - Patrick Dennis
The Tontine - Thomas B Costain
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit - Sloan Wilson
Band of Angels - Robert Penn Warren
Confessions of Felix Krull - Thomas Mann
Something Of Value - Robert Ruark
Gift From The Sea - Ann Morrow Lindbergh
The Power of Positive Thinking - Norman V. Peale
Inside Africa - John A. Schindler
Onions in the Stew - Betty MacDonald
How to Live 365 Days a Year - John A. Schindler
Week of November 5, 1955
A Man Called Peter - Catherine Marshall
A dozen children win approval of contracts that call for their services in a new
television show from Walt Disney - “The Mickey Mouse Club.” Each is signed for
six months at $185 each. The contracts provide for a series of options extending
the agreement to seven years with salaries of $500 a week during the last year.
The new “stars” and their ages:
Doreen Tracey (12)
Sharon Baird (13)
Tommy Cole (13)
Lonnie Burr (12)
Bobby Burgess (14)
Annette Funicello (13)
Donald Underhill (14)
Carl (Cubby) O’Brien (9)
Karen Pendleton (9)
Darlene Gillespie (14)
Judy Harriet Spiegelman (13)
Dennis Day (13)
NBC-TV says it will spend $12 million to expand color television
facilities in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Parent
company RCA, which is taking great efforts to make the public
color-conscious, says it is “selling and installing about 1,000
color sets a week” and that it expects to sell more than 200
thousand next year. Last week, NBC announced that it’s Chicago station
(WNBQ-Channel 5), plans to present all live programs originating from the station
- in color beginning April 15.
The FCC orders a full-scale proceeding on a
national basis, to try to find a solution to the
disappointing showing of UHF-TV stations
(Channels 14-83). Except in a few cases, UHF
stations have not been able to compete in the
same viewing areas with VHF stations
(channels 2-13). One of the problems - the
majority of the 35 million television sets in
homes cannot receive UHF without a converter.
The FCC is looking at taking some VHF
channels and reassigning them to the UHF dial.
UHF service is going to be needed for
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television to expand, especially for educational and pay-as-you-see television. Of
the 430 stations now on the air, about 100 are UHF, with 325 new UHF grants for
stations in the works, with many of those grants dormant.
Divorces - Mrs Ruth Carmichael (41) - wife of
songwriter Hoagy Carmichael (55). Says she suffered
a nervous breakdown as a result of strife of her famous
husband. A friend said they “had no family life and no
real marriage.”
Divorces - Dorothy Mature from her actor/husband
Victor. She said he has a violent temper and frequently
flew into rages both in public and in private. She had
charged mental cruelty. “He would call up and say he
would home in 15 minutes and then I wouldn’t see him
for three days.”
Pop music this week in 1955 -
Love Is A Many Splendored Thing - Four Aces
Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams
Moments To Remember - The Four Lads
The Shifting, Whispering Sands - Rusty Draper
Only You - The Platters
You Are My Love - Joni James
At My Door (Crazy Little Mama) - Pat Boone
He - The McGuire Sisters
At My Front Door - The El Dorados
Suddenly There’s A Valley - Jo Stafford
My Bonnie Lassie - The Ames Brothers
Someone You Love - Nat King Cole
Forgive My Heart - Nat King Cole
Rock-A-Beatin’ Boogie - Bill Haley & His Comets
Amukiriki (The Lord Willing) - Les Paul & Mary
Ford
Saturday Night television -
CBS - Beat The Clock, Stage Show, Jackie Gleason, Two for the Money, It’s
Always Jan, Gunsmoke, Damon Runyon Theatre
NBC - The Big Surprise, Perry Como Show, Max
Lieberman Show, Your Hit Parade
ABC - Ozark Jubilee, Lawrence Welk Show,
Tomorrow’s Careers, Tom Harmon Workshop
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Stage Show - Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey,
George Raft , Tony Bennett and Frank
Fontaine
Two for the Money - game show with Herb
Shriner as emcee
Your Hit Parade - Snooky Larson, Dorothy
Collins Gisele MacKensie and Russell Arms
At the movies -
Rebel Without A Cause - James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus,
William Hopper
The Tender Trap - Frank
Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds,
David Wayne Celeste
Holm
The Adventures of Quentin
Durward - Robert Taylor, Kay
Kendall, Robert Morely
The Big Knife - Jack Palance,
Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey,
Jean Hagen, Rod Steiger and
Miss Shelley Winters
Lucy Gallant - Jane Wyman,
Charlton Heston, Claire Trevor,
Thelma Ritter
My Sister Eileen - Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett
Sincerely Yours - Liberace (his first starring motion picture!), Joanne Dru,
Dorothy Malone, Alex Nicol
A Man Alone - Ray Milland, Mary Murphy, Ward Bond
Walt Disney’s The African Lion
The View From Pompey’s Head - Richard Egan, Dana Wynter, Cameron
Mitchell
Trial - Glenn Ford, Dorothy McGuire, Arthur Kennedy, John Hodiak, Katy Jurado
The Desperate Hours - Humphrey Bogart, Fredrick March
Week of November 5, 1955