Week of September 8, 1955
President Eisenhower’s
personal popularity has
slipped to 73% from 79%.
Red China announces that 10 more Americans in red
China are being freed to return home within a few days.
This is in addition to 12 civilians.
President Eisenhower advocates lengthening regular
high school and college courses to perhaps five years in
this “complicated age. He also suggested that older folks
are being required to retire from their jobs too early in
life.
The Commerce Department says the public had a record income in July at an
annual rate of $304,500,000,000.
A Marine captain answers the $64,000 question of the quiz show of the same
name.
A meteoriticist declares that a “shrewd opponent” could wage an ice cube test
war against this country with intercontinental projectiles made of ice. The object
of the ice missile would be to determine effectiveness of range for the missile of
the more deadly variety.
Marilyn Monroe plane? An aviation magazine says there’s a plane with a new
fuselage design - like Marilyn Monroe - also called a coke bottle shape. Fred
Hamlin, publisher of Aero Digest says the new fuselage design is “one of the
major aerodynamic breakthroughs in the last decade.” First plane to use the
design was the Grumman F9F9 Tiger, a carrier-based jet fighter.
Friday night television -
CBS - Douglas Edwards news, Julius La Rosa Show, Pantomime Quiz, Topper,
Playhouse of the Stars, Ray Milland Show, Undercurrent, Person to Person
NBC - Eddie Fisher, News Caravan w/John Cameron Swayze, Life of Riley, Big
Story, Star Stage, Boxing
ABC - John Daly news, Soldiers of Fortune, Treasury Men in Action, Dollar a
Second, the Vise, I Led Three Lives, Boris Karloff, Mystery
Life of Riley - Stars William Bendix, Marjorie Reynolds, Lugene Sanders, Wesley
Morgan.
Person to Person - Edward R. Murrow visits Ethel Merman and Mollie Parnis.
