Week of November 23, 1951

United Nations and Communist negotiations reach full agreement in principle on

a plan to establish a temporary cease-fire line.

President Truman orders Treasury Secretary Snyder to cancel all reciprocal

trade agreements with Russia and Poland effective January 5.

President Truman announces today that

fighting will continue in Korea as long as

there is a possibility of U.N. forces being

caught off balance by the enemy in a

peace trap.

Maj. Gen. Charles Willoughby, former

chief of intelligence says “Biased,

prejudiced and inaccurate” news

coverage of the Korean War contributed

to the firing of Gen. MacArthur last year. He accused six newspapermen and

three news magazines of reporting, which “created an atmosphere of tension,

uneasiness and distrust between Tokyo and Washington.

U.S. Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee will be a candidate for the Democratic

nomination for President.

The Woman In Black, a wild figure with her hair streaming and who was familiar

to allied infantrymen in Korea is shot dead by a Canadian machine gunner after

she led a savage Communist attack on a United Nations position west of

Yonchon. Her body, in black uniform with no insignia of rank, still lay in the snow

hours later. The gunner saw her brandishing a pistol and screaming at her men

in English: “Come on, come on, hubba, hubba, hubba, hubba.” He fired a burst

and the woman fell.

Two masked (disguised) priests behind the Iron Curtain say

churchgoers now must pray to “our father who art in Moscow”

and revere Stalin as a “new Messiah.” Communist use of

religion as an instrument of propaganda they added, has led to

the substituting of Stalin’s image for religious figures in church

buildings in Russia and Red satellite countries. The interviews

Youth League.

Week of November 23, 1951

The Census Bureau reports that marriage is more popular than ever. Only 195 of

women over 14 are single today, compared with 28% in 1940 and 34% back in

grandmother’s day, 1890. Fewer children are being produced. The average

family in 1951 has 3.54 members compared to 3.77 10 years ago.

A special committee of the National Research Council endorses the fluoridation

of public water supplies to reduce tooth decay. Properly controlled, the addition

of fluorides to drinking water which lacks these chemicals appears to be both

safe and effective the report said.

baseball picture for the 1952 season - so says

manager Leo Durocher.

Entertainment news -

Actress Shelly Winters tells Hedda Hopper that

Vittorio Gassman flew all the way from Rome “to

spend six days with me. All I did was send him a

cable saying, ‘I’m lonely. I’m sending you a kiss.’ His

answering cable was, ‘I’m lonely too and I’m returning

it.’ From that would you suppose he was planning to

fly to deliver it? It’s so romantic, I’m so happy.”

this week, will now get star billing in “Gigi.”

Mario Lanza sings his heart out by telephone, to a bedfast 10-

year-old girl to tell her he loved her and to wish her a Merry

Christmas, which she celebrated because incurable Hodgkins

disease may end her life before Christmas. He talked to her

and sang “Silent Night.” “I didn’t know if I was going to make it or not” said the

singer and actor. “I could just see that little girl there and I looked down and saw

my own little girls and it was almost too much for me.”

Television news -

NBC will cut “Kula, Fran and Ollie” to 15 minutes, to make way for the comedy

team of Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding.

Week of November 23, 1951

Television news -

The Dinah Shore Show debuts this week on NBC-TV (see ad). See Dinah Tues.

and Thurs. nights at 7:45pm. Vivian Blaine and Pinky Lee will fill the same time

the other three weeknights.

Week of November 23, 1951

At the movies -

Johnson

Two Tickets To Broadway - Tony Martin, Janet

Leigh

Eleanor Parker

Hayward

Leigh

Elizabeth Taylor

Quo Vadis