Week of September 24, 1957
President Eisenhower signs a history-making proclamation clearing the way for
possible use of Federal troops to quash any further school integration violence at
Little Rock, Ark ... Later on, he orders U.S. troops into the area to prevent mob
rule “under the leadership of demagogie extremists opposed to school
integration.” The Army flies 1000 battle-ready troops into Little Rock and
prepares to activate all Arkansas’
National Guard to enforce Federal
school integration following orders
from the President.
Paratroopers with lowered
bayonets take nine Negro students
into Central High School in Little
Rock and then stand guard over
their classrooms. One man was
bayoneted and a second was
clubbed with a rifle butt in a show
of force.
James R. Hoffa - vice-president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters is
indicted on five counts of perjury by a Federal rackets grand jury. The indictment
charged Hoffa, a candidate for the presidency of the Teamsters to succeed Dave
Beck, lied to the grand jury during its probe into alleged wire tapping of
Teamsters Union headquarters in Detroit.
Bestsellers -
Peyton Place - Grace Metalious
By Love Possessed - James Gould Cozzens
On The Beach - Nevil Shute
The World of Suzie Wong - Richard Mason
The Pink Hotel - Dorothy, Erskine, Patrick Dennis
Below the Salt - Thomas B. Costain
The Hidden Persuaders - Vance Packard
Baruch - My Own Story - Bernard S. Baruch
Stay Alive All Your Life - Norman Vincent Peale
The New Class - Milovan Djilas
The Day Christ Died - Jim Bishop
Rascals in Paradise - James Michener and A. Grove Day
Week of September 24, 1957
In Sports - Goodbye Giants, Goodbye New York - After 74
years, The New York
Giants play their last
game at the Polo
Grounds and in New
York. Thousands hit the
field and chased the team
to the clubhouse. They
also carried-away
anything in site. Within a
half-hour after their 9-1
loss to Pittsburgh, fans
had ripped up the regular
and warm-up home plates, the wooden base
beneath the main plate, the pitcher’s rubber,
two of the bases and the foam rubber sheathing protecting outfielders who
crashed into the center field fences. The Giants now head to their new home turf
- San Francisco.
What about the Brooklyn Dodgers? ... Reports as of this week
say that pressure on owner Walter O’Malley to keep the
Dodgers in Brooklyn is being applied from all sides in New York.
National League club owners meet in New York next Monday
before the World Series, and unless O’Malley and Los Angeles
officials close the Dodger deal by midnight Sunday, he will have
to ask the league for an extension of time to continue
negotiations. The National League granted O’Malley and New
York Giants owner Horace Stoneham permission to move to
California at a meeting May 27. The Giants have the green light to move, but as
of this week, not the Dodgers. Los Angeles seems to by dilly-dallying. O’Malley
wants to buy a 300-acre tract in Chevez-Ravine, not far from downtown Los
Angeles to build a new stadium. Also, there seems to be some issues with the
Pacific League. Los Angles Mayor Poulson announced this week that the
Brooklyn Dodges are coming to Los Angeles, that he had been personally
assured that 10 members of the City Council will vote favorably on a proposed
ordinance and contract which would bring the Dodgers to Los Angeles when the
legislation comes up for final consideration next Monday... stay tuned!
Week of September 24, 1957
The World Series - Casey Stangel says Whitey
Ford will pitch the first game as the Yankees go up
against the Milwaukee Braves. Warren Spahn will
be pitching for the Braves; both pitchers are
southpaws.
In a 15-round decision at Yankee Stadium, Carmen
Basillio defeats Sugar Ray Robinson and becomes
the world’s middleweight champion.
Campbell’s brings you three new soups! - Turkey
Noodle Soup ... Minestrone Soup ... Chicken
Vegetable Soup.
What! Can anything be better than Tide? Yes! New Tide with Reserve Cleaning
Power. Extra cleaning power ... does a better job on everything you wash .. on all
kinds of suds. Now more than ever - the cleanest clean possible is Tide-Clean.
A London newspaper reports that an Italian film producer hopes to persuade Ava
Gardner to appear nude in a film on the life of the Spanish painter Goya. A
famous Goya shows the Duchess of Alba lying nude on a couch. The paper said
“other producers who know Ava better reckon the producer will find it easier to
make the moon jump over the cow.” But, the paper added - “She is fed up with
years of lingerie poses and cheesecake.”
Shooting a movie in Utah, film stars Alan Ladd and Olivia de Havilland suffer
minor burns when a gust of wind blew flames at them during a barn-burning
scene. The actors were behind controlled gas fires in the barn scene when a gust
of wind swept the flames at them, dropping embers among the group.
Friday nights on NBC - “The Thin Man” starring Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk.
Brought to you by Colgate-Palmolive.
Don’t miss this on NBC, a special “Look Here”
program on Friday. Reporter-Commentator Martin
Agronsky interviews Cuba’s President Fulgencio
Batista at the Presidential Palace live; that is, if the
political situation suffers no changes in the
meantime. It will be the first over-the-waves live TV
transmission and Batista’s first appearance on
American television in recent years.
Week of September 24, 1957
Thursday Night Television -
CBS - Sergeant Preston of the Yukon ,
Harbourmaster, Climax!, Playhouse 90
NBC - Tic Tac Dough, You Bet Your Life with
Groucho Marx, Dragnet, The People’s Choice,
Tennessee Ernie Ford, Rosemary Clooney
Show, Jane Wyman
ABC - Circus Boy, Theatre Time, O.S.S.,
Frankie Laine Show, Damon Runyon Theater
Climax! presents “Along came a Spider” -
drama about a mentally ill boy. Ruth Hussey,
Don Dubbins, Leif Ericson and Natalie Trunday.
Playhouse 90 - “Topaze” - Ernie Kovacs,
Sheree North, Carol Reiner, Richard Haydn
Tennessee Ernie Ford - Jane Wyman guests
Rosemary Clooney Show - Tennessee Ernie Ford guests (In Color)
Pop music this week in 1957 -
TAMMY - Debbie Reynolds
WAKE UP LITTLE SUSIE - The Everly Brothers
CHANCES ARE - Johnny Mathis
THAT’LL BE THE DAY - The
Crickets
HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY
- The Tune Weavers
FASCINATION - Jane Morgan and
the Troubadors
LOTTA LOVIN’ - Gene Vincent &
His Blue Caps
DIANA - Paul Anka
Just Between You and Me - The Chordettes
WHOLE LOT OF SHAKIN’ GOING ON - Jerry Lee Lewis
HONEYCOMB - Jimmie Rodgers
AND THAT REMINDS ME - Della Reese
PEANUTS - Little Joe & The Thrillers
My Heart Reminds Me - Kay Starr
You’re My One And Only Love - Ricky Nelson
Zip Zip - The Diamonds
HULA LOVE - Buddy Knox with The Rhythm Orchids
Week of September 24, 1957
ALONE (Why Must I Be Alone) - The Shepherd Sisters
RAINBOW - Russ Hamilton
AROUND THE WORLD - Mantovani &
His Orchestra
MR. LEE - The Bobbettes
IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ISLAND - Tony
Bennett
BYE BYE LOVE - The Everly Brothers
MELODIE D’AMOUR (Melody Of Love) -
The Ames Brothers
KEEP A KNOCKIN’ - Little Richard
STAR DUST - Billy Ward & His
Dominoes
LASTING LOVE - Sal Mineo
At the movies -
The Joker Is Wild - Frank Sinatra,
Mitzi Gaynor, Jeanne Crain, Eddie
Albert
Mr. Rock and Roll - Alan Freed
with Frankie Lymon & The
Teenagers, Chuck Berry, La Vern
Baker, Brook Benton, Clyde
McPhatter, Little Richard, Ferlin
Husky, The Moonglows, Rocky
Graziano, Teddy Radazzo, Lionel
Hampton
Jeanne Eagles - Kim Novak, Jeff
Chandler
The Story Of Esther Costello -
Joan Crawford, Rossano Brazzi, Lee Patterson, Ron Randell, Heather Sears.
Forty Guns - Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, John Ericson,
Gene Barry
The Brothers Rico - Richard Conte, Dianne Foster, Kathryn Grant
Pickup Alley (World-Wide Dope Traffic Exposed!) - Victor Mature, Anita
Ekberg, Trevor Howard
Jet Pilot - John Wayne, Janet Leigh
Noah’s Ark -
Dragoon Wells Massacre - Barry Sullivan, Dennis O’Keefe, Mona Freeman
Around The World In 80 days -
Week of September 24, 1957
The Silken Affair - David Niven
Sign of the Pagan - Jeff Chandler, Jack Palance, Rita Gam
The Quiet Man - John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Barry Fitzgerald
Forbidden Interlude - June Allyson, Rossano Brazzi, Marianne Cook, Francoise
Rosay
The Frogmen -
Richard Widmark, Dana
Andrews
The Gladiators - Victor
Mature, Susan Hayward
Land Of the Pharaohs
- Jack Hawkins, Joan
Collins, Dewey Martin
Mickey Sillane’s My
Gun Is Quick - Robert
Bray as Mike Hammer
Stowaway Girl - Trevor
Howard, Pedro
Armendariz, Elsa
Martinelli (She was only
17 ... She paid the price
for her passage, but not to that whole crew!).