Week of September 1, 1954
Forty-five perish over 9 states battered by a hurricane. One casualty was the
steeple atop Old North Church in Boston, where signal lights of Paul Revere
burned.
Ten Americans in a U.S. Navy patrol plane are shot down off Red Siberia in what
the United States denounced as a “wanton and unprovoked attack” by two Soviet
planes.
President Eisenhower and Ex-President Herbert Hoover fish for trout in Colorado
on Labor Day holiday.
While in Colorado, President Eisenhower signs into law, legislation extending
Social Security coverage and liberalizing benefits to 10 million additional
Americans and providing for greater benefits. The new law also increases
payments into the Social Security fund on the part of both employees and
employers.
Sports - Over 43,000 see
Yogi Berra
pump new life into
New York’s American League pennant hopes, pounding out a
home run and two singles to pace the Yankees to a 4-1 must-
win over Cleveland.
Entertainment news -
Bachelor
Bob Stack
says “It’s easy to stay a
bachelor in Hollywood or anywhere else if you’re
determined to stay single ‘just a little longer.’ That
can stretch into quite a while. It’s true Hollywood is
chock full of glamorous girls, but who says that’s enough for a happy
marriage?”
Bob Wagner
, also a Hollywood bachelor says “There are
quite a few bachelors here, so it’s not so easy to get a date
with these glamour girls since lots of guys have more to offer
than I have.”
Tennessee Ernie recently added his last name to his
professional namesake. Why? Scuttlebutt says it was the
first step in changing Tennessee from a character of the hills
into a more sophisticated gentleman. Says Ernie: “We’ve
had discussions along that line. My darling wife decided it
