Week of November 15, 1953

Harry S. Truman says he knew of disloyalty charges against the late Harry

Dexter White, but decided to retain him in the government service in order not to

endanger an FBI investigation. The former President was speaking to a

nationwide radio and TV audience to “answer all questions” in the White case

controversy

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover swears that

former President Truman’s promotion of Harry

Dexter White to the International Monetary

Fund, hampered FBI surveillance of the alleged

Soviet spy.

Martha de Batista pays a visit to the First Lady

in Washington. She’s the wife of President

Fulgencio Batista of Cuba. They compared

notes of their children over tea.

President Eisenhower says he hopes his

administration’s cleanup in Washington will

eliminate the Communist-in-government issue

from next year’s political campaign.

Mystery on the Vienna Orient Express - The wife of a Belgian show producer is

hurled from the speeding train by a man who then pulled the emergency cord

and fled into the countryside. Police say they found bloodstains in her train

compartment, indicating there had been a desperate struggle between the

woman and her mystery assailant. The woman was critically injured.

A government inventor has invented a machine that reads an address on a letter,

figures out the zone number and then drops the envelope in the proper bag.

Entertainment news -

Milton Berle says he’ll marry Ruth Cosgrove in December. She’s done publicity

and public relations on both coasts.

Marlon Brando is getting $150,000 to star in the

upcoming “Waterfront.”

Jack Paar finally gets a regular morning show over CBS-

TV.

Week of November 15, 1953

Sunday night television -

CBS - You Are There, Television City, Jack Benny, Toast of the Town, Play,

Man Behind the Badge, The Web, What’s My Line?

NBC - Meet The Press, Roy Rogers, Winchell-Mahoney, Mr. Peepers, Colgate

Comedy Hour, GE Playhouse. Letter To Loretta, I Led Three Lives

ABC - You Asked For It, Walter Winchell Comments, Petter Potter Show

Week of November 15, 1953

You Are There - The Recognition of Michelangelo

Television City - Tour of the new CBS-TV center in Hollywood with Edward R.

Murrow.

Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney - Features Margaret Truman in her dramatic

debut. It’s a story about a young woman who is a witness to murder.

Toast of the Town - With Gordon MacRae , Peter Line

Hayes, Mary Healy, Mask and Wig Players, Minneapolis

Lakers Basketball team.

Music news - People from the world of Country music

gather in Nashville to salute WSM’s ‘Grand Ole Opry” on

its 28 th anniversary. More than 300 hillbilly disk jockeys

were feted.

Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” tops the Christmas song

list for sheet music. That’s followed by Rudolph, “I Saw

Mommy Kissing Santa Clause,” and a new entry - “I Want A Hippotamus for

Christmas.” Others in the top-10 - “Winter Wonderland,” “Frosty The Snowman,

“Santa Clause Is Coming To Town,” “Silver Bells,” “Here Comes Santa Clause”

and “Blue Christmas.”

Trends in records - The new Hi-Fi systems - of which there are about 2 million in

consumer hands - are changing the way people are listening, especially classical

music. In the older 78rpm days, an artist or orchestra sold a record on basis of

the performer’s name alone. Hi-Fi is killing that. Today, says an expert, it is

quality of performance and care in recording that count.

Pop music this week in 1953 -

RAGS TO RICHES - Tony Bennett

EBB TIDE - Frank Chacksfield & Orch.

EH, CUMPARI - Julius LaRosa

YOU YOU YOU - Ames Brothers

VAYA CON DIOS (May God Be With

You) - Les Paul & Mary Ford

ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGONET -

Stan Freberg

RICOCHET (Rick-O-Shay)- Teresa

Brewer

Week of November 15, 1953

Take The High Ground! -

Richard Widmark , Karl

Malden, Elaine Stewart

How to Marry A Millionaire -

Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable,

Lauren Bacall

Blowing Wild - Gary Cooper,

Barbara Stanwyck, Anthony

Quinn

Stalag 17 - William Holden

A Lion Is In The Streets -

James Cagney

From Here To Eternity

Walt Disney’s The Living

Desert