Week of October 14-22, 1956

battle with the Arabs, but “If we are attacked we shall

fight with all our strength to the end - and that means

until victory.”

Secretary of State Dulles declares that the United

States will help the Arab kingdom of Jordan if Israel

strikes that country.

Iron Curtain reports say Communist China is joining

Russia’s European satellites in a snowballing effort to break away from Soviet

authority.

Vice-President Nixon says he thinks the kind of investigations of Communist

activity formerly conducted by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy are no longer needed.

Nixon, at a nationally televised CBS news conference with student editors, gives

credit to Eisenhower administration security policies for taking “this issue... out of

the political arena.”

Prime Minister Eden appoints a new Defense Minister following reports that

Britain’s armed forces were unable to strike at once when the Suez crisis first

broke in July. Gone is Sir Walter Monckton he is replaced by Antony Head.

Campaign - From the Twin Cities in Minnesota - the President heads to Los

Angeles, where the Hollywood Bowl flowed to overcrowd to hear President

Eisenhower speak.

an immediate U.S.-Soviet agreement to ban H-bomb tests. He

used an argument advanced by Democrat Adlai Stevenson in the

U.S. Presidential campaign, that violation of such an agreement is

impossible because science now can detect atomic tests

anywhere.

In Poland - Polish Communists shake up the Politburo by ousting

Marshal Konstanin Rokossovsky and other Stalinists.

President Eisenhower tells Premier Bulganin that parts of his latest H-bomb letter

were “personally offensive to me” and that any foreign Ambassador guilty of such

interference in American politics would be kicked out of the country.

Week of October 14-22, 1956

Coast Guard Rescue - All 31 passengers and crew members of a Pan American

Stratocruiser survive a dramatic ditching and rescue at sea, after it took off from

San Francisco.

About 125 carloads of hooded Ku Klux Klan members parade through Clinton,

Tenn, scene of racial disorders arising fro school integration last month. Four

crosses were burned.

Media - The Chicago Tribune and the Hearst Publishing Co. announce the sale

of the Chicago American and Chicago Sunday American to the Tribune.

Hopper he lives in New York and “I go back to New York

when I finish a picture. I find trying to mix in Hollywood

somewhat exhausting unless you’re dedicated to mixing and

I’m not.” He’s made two pictures in Hollywood - 1953’s “The

Actress” with Jean Simmons, Spencer Tracy and Teresa

Wright and last year’s “Friendly Persuasion.”

In Massachusetts - A Baptist minister throws-away his

sermon after a teenage gang asked him for an opinion on Elvis Presley. He said

Elvis is on his way out. “Presley is on top today, but in one of two years, he will

be far less popular.” The Rev. Edward Hales continued, saying that Presley is an

expression of the “subconscious nature of modern youth in a time of turmoil.”

“But this is not anything new. We went thought the stages of the Charleston, the

Big Apple and the swooning of teenagers over Frank Sinatra.” “I feel the motional

nature of young people has produced Elvis Presley. Part of adolescence is

change. We are living in a world where it’s pretty hard even for adults to remain

emotionally stable.”

“Giant” starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and the late James Dean, makes

its debut in Hollywood at the Chinese Theater.

Robert E. Kintner (47) quits as president of ABC in what was termed a dispute

over policies.

regular cast member of “Today” with Dave Garroway.

Week of October 14-22, 1956

Sunday on NBC-TV

Music news -

but is later found blameless. His two opponents were fined

for assault and batter. It all started when Presley, home from

a tour, stopped at a gas station and asked manager Ed

Hopper to check the gas tank for leaks. The singer drew a

crowd with his $10,000 car and traffic was blocked. Mr.

Hopper asked Presley to leave so the station could get back

to normal. A witness said Mr. Presley had agreed to move

on, but autograph fans delayed him Hopper then slapped the

singer on the back of the head, in which Mr. Presley leaped

from the car and punched him, opening a gash on his eye.

An assistant of Mr. Hopper’s then joined the fray and also

Week of October 14-22, 1956

caught a punch from the singer. A policeman and bystander broke up the fight.

CBS - Douglas Edwards With The News, Robin Hood, Burns and Allen, Godfrey

Talent Scouts, I Love Lucy, December Bride, studio One

NBC - Franie Carle piano, News Caravan, Producer’s Showcase, Robert

Montgomery Presents, Democratic special, Douglas Fairbanks Presents, Tonight

Show with Ernie Kovacs

ABC - Bold Journey, Danny Thomas, Voice of Firestone, Bishop Fulton J.

Sheen, Lawrence Welk, Adlai Stevenson special

Robin Hood - Robin has to don a disguise when his search for a blackmailer

leads him into Nottingham.

Robert Montgomery Presents - A medical man turns his back on civilization for

the peaceful isolation of a Caribbean island Stars John Hudson.

At the movies -

Tea and Sympathy - Deborah Kerr, John Kerr

Seven Wonders of the World

Giant - Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean

Moby Dick - Gregory Peck

High Society - Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Robert Wagner

Autumn Leaves - Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson

Week of October 14-22, 1956

The Beast of Hollow Mountain- Guy Madison