Week of April

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1 General Douglas MacArthur, after being dismissed last week by President Truman, heads back to United States. He ll leave Tokyo for Honolulu. Next stop, San Francisco, Washington and on to New York. General MacArthur is given a hero s welcome everywhere he stops. In San Francisco, more than 500,00 wildly cheering, milling people give the home-coming hero one of the greatest receptions in the city s history... In Washington another roaring reception. The General also addressed Congress, where he defended his entire Far Eastern strategy in a dramatic speech, asserting that he had believed his views were fully shared by our own Joint Chiefs of Staff. The President was not present... The President said in removing MacArthur from his Far Eastern commands last week that MacArthur was unable to support wholeheartedly the policies laid down by the United Nations and United States for conducting the Korean War. Later, the President declared the policies advocated by MacArthur carried a grave risk of World War III. In New York - more than one million people turnout to celebrate his homecoming The General and his wife left New York 14 years ago and it s the first time they ve been back. Korean War - who s in charge? Lt Gen James A. Van Fleet now commands the 8th Army and Lt. Gen Matthew B. Ridgeway, now wears the four command hats which Gen Douglas Macarthur has taken off. Mickey Mantle, sensational New York Yankee rookie, hits a home run and three singles in a game against the Brooklyn Dodgers. Shortly before the game, the Yanks said they had bought the contracts of Mantle and Pitcher Frank Shea from their Kansas City American Association team. At the mart - Hen Turkeys -.59lb... Peaches - no 21/2 can Coffee -.77lb...

2 WELCH, world s foremost producer of grape products since 1869, presents its crowning achievement Welch s Wine. Just 97cents for a 4/5 quart. Show biz - Decca Records obtains the record rights to the radio series Lone Ranger and has plans to issue four 78rpm records with Lone Ranger stories. Bela Lugosi is in Britain to star in a revival of Dracula. It begins April 30 at the Theatre Royal, Brighton, prior to a run in London s West End. certain number. Radio news More radio stations are installing 33 1/3 turntables to air long play product on the air. In order to facilitate the conversion, most of the major record companies have agreed to supply a number of albums free from their back catalogs if the stations buy a CBS drops the Desi Arnaz Show. The 13-week Sunday afternoon program showcased the Latin bandleader s potentialities for television. He and his wife, Lucille Ball, are scheduled to launch a Mr. And Mrs. Series on CBS-TV in the

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4 Television news - Can television sell songs? A song called I Like The Wide Open Spaces was sung on Ken Murray s CBS TV show and 35,000 orders for the song followed. The artist is Laurie Anders. She reprised the tune on the Arthur Godfrey TV show a few days later and with 15,000 record orders. It s reported that 54 TV stations are making money, with total ad revenues totaling $105,800,000, or more than triple the business done in A much-anticipated FCC report on 1950 radio broadcast business, which was expected to show the impact of TV an AM radio stations, shows no such thing. 421 radio stations in operation two or more years in TV markets increased their revenues in 1950 by 7% while the 1,315 established radio stations in non-tv markets upped their volume by 10%. This is amazing considering TV broadcast business tripled from Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis are slated for four appearances of NBC-TV s Comedy Hour broadcast Sunday nights. Jenny Lewis, known to late night TV viewers as Dagmar has a pending deal for a new ABC-TV situation comedy series. She currently appears on NBC-TV s Broadway Open House with Jerry Lester, making $400 a week. It s reported she ll be paid around $7,000 per episode on the new ABC-TV series. Crosley Electronics demonstrates a UHF tuner, capable of bringing all proposed UHF channels into a standard VHF TV set. Crosley is the only manufacturer to announce one ready for production. Called the Ultratuner, it can be attached by the set owner to a TV set in a matter of minutes. A demonstration was held in Bridgeport, CT in order to pick up a signal transmitted by RCA s experimental UHF station KC2XAK. Saturday Night television in larger cities CBS - Sam Levenson Show, Beat The Clock, Ken Murray Show, Frank Sinatra Show, Sing It Again NBC - Victor Borge Variety Show, One Man s Family, Jack Carter Show, Your Show of Shows ABC - Hollywood Theatre Time, The Stu Erwin Show, Paul Whiteman TV Teen Club

5 Sam Levenson - Betty Furness guests Week of April Frank Sinatra Show - Rudy Vallee, Pied Pipers guest Frankie Laine moves to Columbia from Mercury Records

6 Saturday Night Radio - CBS - Vaughn Monroe Show, Gene Autry Show, Hopalong Cassidy, Gangbusters, Broadway s My Beat, Sing it Again NBC - People Are Funny, Dangerous Assignment, The Man Called X, Your Hit Parade, Dennis Day Program, Judy Canova Show, President Truman address ABC - Cavalcade of Music Mutual - Comedy of errors, Twenty Questions, Where to Retire, Reporters Round-Up, Theatre of the Air Pop music this week in IF - Perry Como BE MY LOVE - Mario Lanza YOU RE JUST IN LOVE - Perry Como MOCKIN BIRD HILL - Les Paul & Mary Ford ABA DABA HONEYMOON - Debbie Reynolds & Carleton Carpenter WOULD I LOVE YOU (LOVE YOU, LOVE YOU) - Patti Page MY HEART CRIES FOR YOU - Guy Mitchell/Dinah Shore/ BEAUTIFUL BROWN EYES - Rosemary Clooney SPARROW IN THE TREE TOP - Guy Mitchell BRING BACK THE THRILL - Eddie Fisher A PENNY A KISS - Tony Martin & Dinah Shore IT IS NO SECRET - Bill Kenny & Song Spinners At the movies - Father s Little Dividend - Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Billie Burke Abbott and Costello Meet The Invisible Man - Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Nancy Guild Adele Jergens The Mating Season - Gene Tierney, John Lund, Miriam Hopkins, Thelma Ritter, Jan Sterling The Man From Planet X - Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, William Schallert I Can Get It For You Wholesale - Susan Hayward, Dan Dailey, George Sanders Mister Universe - Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Bert Lahr, Robert Alda Soldiers Three - Stewart Granger, Walter Pidgeon, David Niven, Robert Newton Three Guys Named Mike - Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Howard keel, Barry

7 Sullivan Valentino - Eleanor Parker, Anthony Dexter The Brave Bulls - Mel Ferrer Lullaby of Broadway - Doris Day, Gene Nelsen Three Guys Named Mike - Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Howard Keel, Barry Sullivan Tomahawk - Van Heflin, Yvonne DeCarlo Frenchie - Joel McCrea, Shelly Winters The 13th Letter - Linda Darnell, Charles Boyer You re In The Navy Now - Gary Cooper, Jane Greer, Eddie Albert Payment on Demand - Bette Davis, Barry Sullivan Gambling House - Victor Mature, Terry Moore, William Bendix The Second Women - Robert Young, Betsy Drake The Steel Women - Robert Gutton, Steve Brodie, James Edwards Dodge City - Errol Flynn, Olivia dehavilland, Ann Sheridan