Week of September 23, 1956

President Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua is shot

three times by an assailant in the city of Leon. He was

taken to a hospital where his condition was reported

as not serious.

The Mayflower II is launched in Tor Bay at Brixham,

England. She’ll make the same voyage as the original

- to Plymouth Rock on the coast of Massachusetts.

Campaign trail in Peoria - President Eisenhower,

miffed at Adlai Stevenson’s accusation that he is the author of a new farm

depression, hits back with a fighting speech blasting past Democratic

administrations and the current democratic Congress for the farmer’s plight.

Israeli and Jordon soldiers blaze out with new bursts of automatic gunfire in

divided Jerusalem.

President Eisenhower said that his role in the campaign would be somewhat

heavier than the five or six major speeches he originally contemplated.

come out of retirement and resume fighting. Marciano is appearing on Red

Skelton’s show.

with a no-hit, no-run performance over Philadelphia giving

Brooklyn a 5-0 victory, keeping the Dodgers within a half

game of first-place Milwaukee in the National League

pennant race.

Passing - Babe Zaharias - called the greatest woman

athlete the world has known. She was 42.

Entertainment news -

Actor John Carradine’s second wife, quoting him as threatening her life if she

dares sue him for divorce, files for divorce.

Music news -

Elvis Presley says he paid a former girl friend an out-of-court settlement of

$5,500 after a suit charging Presley used a picture of her with him for his fan

magazine. Ms. Robbie Moore (20), a traffic department worker for Southern Bell

Telephone Co., said she was sitting in a Memphis all-night restaurant, when

Week of September 23, 1956

Presley, accompanied by a girl friend - Barbara Hern, and a photographer, sat

down at her table. “Why, I have known her around town for years,” Presley said,

“and had no idea she would object to the picture.” Ms. Moore said Elvis, after

joining her in the restaurant playfully ate part of her hamburger and drank some

of her glass of milk. Then, Ms. Moore said, he leaned his head on her shoulder

and the photog took the picture.

Week of September 23, 1956

Week of September 23, 1956

Television news -

CBS says Nov. 1 is the date which CBS engineers

will begin using video tape and specifically, their new

Ampex tape decks. Each machine cost $75,000 and

they will be installed in Hollywood at Television City.

“Tonight” with Steve Allen will be reduced from ninety

minutes to an hour beginning Oct. 29. Steve Allen

continues as emcee on Weds, Thurs. and Fridays.

Ernie Kovacs takes over as permanent host on

Mondays and Tuesdays beginning next week. Allen

also did an extra 15-minute show for local WRCA-TV

at 11:15p weeknights, but that has been dropped.

Allen’s just too busy with his Sunday evening show

and all.

Sunday night television -

CBS - Face the Nation, Bandwagon ’56, Telephone

Time, you Are There, Lassie, jack Benny, Ed Sullivan,

NBC - Captain Gallant, Meet the Press, Roy Rogers

Show, Topper, Circus Boy, Steve Allen Show, Loretta

Young Show

ABC - You Asked For It, Film Festival, Original

Amateur Hour, Democratic Talk

Ed Sullivan - Helen Traubel, Edith Piaff, Jean Carroll,

Vaughn Monroe and Tom Zachary

Steve Allen - Joni James, Billy Eckstine, Jose Molina,

Irwin Corey

At the movies -

The Pajama Game

Week of September 23, 1956

Week of September 23, 1956

Week of September 23, 1956

Week of September 23, 1956

Gleason’s Back With His Variety Show On Saturday Nights

Week of September 23, 1956