Week of September 20, 1955

Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov demands an end to the world armaments race

and a ban on nuclear weapons. He challenged the West to match Soviet deeds

by reducing their armed camps and giving up foreign military bases.

A heart attack strikes President Eisenhower and is

taken to Fitzsimons Army Hospital. The President’s

physician says that the Chief executive ‘is resting well

in the hospital and his condition is good.

President Eisenhower is resting “very comfortably”

after a team of physicians had described his heart

attack as moderate, neither mild nor serious.

Dr. Paul Dudley White, one of the world’s top heart

specialists says, “another term for President

Eisenhower is quite conceivable.”

Vice-President Nixon keeps in constant touch with the summer White House

from an undisclosed hideout in the nation’s capital. He sought seclusion after

newsmen and other callers besieged both his office and his home in a suburban

section of the District of Columbia.

Medical - Some 8 million children in the United States, Canada and Denmark

have received injections of the Salk polio vaccine without developing any

complications.

beating Boston 3-2.

of the ninth round at Yankee Stadium. A crowd of

61.574 paid more than $940,000 to see Rocky win

his sixth title defense.

Heavyweight Champ Rocky Marciano says he may

quit the ring for good. “My mother wants me to retire,”

he told reporters after his ninth round knockout bout

with Archie Moore. “My wife wants me to retire - my

whole family wants me to quit. It’s been a tough life for them all. I don’t know

what I will do. I want time to think it over.”

Week of September 20, 1955

Entertainment news -

Passing - Robert Riskin (58) - Academy Award winning screenwriter, best

known for “It Happened One Night.”

Debuting This Week On CBS-TV

Week of September 20, 1955

Jess Oppenheimer, creator/producer who originated “I Love

Lucy” bolts from CBS to NBC. He rejoins Sylvester (Pat)

Weaver, president of NBC. The pair teamed together some 15

years ago on the Fred Astaire radio show.

Faints on TV - Viewers to the Pinky Lee NBC-TV Children’s

program see him clutch his throat and fall to the floor. Doctors

believe it was nervous exhaustion.

Milton Berle is now doing his show from the West Coast. “Never again will I

permanently telecast my programs from New York?” declared the comedian. “It’s

a matter of dollar economy and better production facilities to them from here.

Hollywood is the undisputed capital of live television.”

Lucille Ball says her husband, Desi has taught her to

relax more with a “manana” attitude. “It took me years to

understand this - but it’s worth working for because it

gives you a wonderful release from tension. Another

thing Desi has taught me is patience. I was a great one

for doing it now but he believes in waiting until the time

is right.”

All-night TV station - WOR-TV (New York) begins an all-

night show “Night Time New York” to be broadcast 1am-

7am Wednesdays through Sundays. Milton Ford hosts.

The program offers music, games for the home and studio audience, quizzes,

auditions for amateur songwriters and interviews with celebrities.

CBS-TV’s “Morning Show” will undergo changes beginning October 3. Singers

Merv Griffin & Sandy Stewart are leaving as well as the Bernie Leighton trio.

Emcee Dick Van Dyke will remain. The show will be reduced from 2 hours to

only an hour. The following hour will debut a new kid’s show - “Captain

Kangaroo” with Bob Keeshan as the captain.

Monday night television -

CBS - Robin Hood, Burns and Allen, Godfrey’s Talent Scouts, Those Whiting

Girls, Ethel and Albert, Studio One

NBC - Tony Martin Show, Caesar’s Hour, Robert Montgomery Presents,

Midwestern Hayride

Week of September 20, 1955

ABC - Cisco Kid, TV Reader’s Digest, Dotty Mack, Medical Horizons

Pop music this week in 1955 -

THE YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS - Mitch Miller & Orchestra

AIN’T THAT A SHAME - Pat Boone

LOVE IS A MANY-SPLENDORED THING - Four Aces

MAYBELLENE - Chuck Berry

We’re Gonna) ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK - Bill Haley &

Comets

AIN’T THAT A SHAME - Fats Domino

AUTUMN LEAVES - Roger Williams

WAKE THE TOWN AND TELL THE PEOPLE - Les Baxter &

Orchestra

TINA MARIE - Perry Como

SONG OF THE DREAMER - Eddie Fisher

GUM DROP - Crew-Cuts

HARD TO GET - Gisele MacKenzie

At the movies -

Hunter

Week of September 20, 1955

Week of September 20, 1955