* Thanks to sbk for finding our mistake! We had originally listed the program, erroneously, as the $64,000 Question.THANKS!
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Welcome to Retroville! It’s 1941!
IN THE NEWS:
- Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann is captured by the Israelis in Argentina (he is executed in Israel in 1962)
- Francis Gary Powers’ U-2 spyplane goes down over Russia
- Powers is convicted of spying and sentenced to 10 years by the Russians (he is freed in 1962 during a prisoner exchange)
- Cuba seizes $770 million of American citizens’ property in Cuba
- Congress passes the 23rd Amendment to the Constitution
- The United States has 900 military advisors in Viet Nam
- Quiz show scandel begins when Charles Van Doren is arrested for cheating on the Twenty One game show*
- Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the NY Yankees to take the World Series
ON THE RADIO:
- 21st Precinct
- Academy Award Theater
- Avengers
- Bob Hope Show
- Calling All Cars
- Cavalcade of America
- CBS Radio Mystery Theater
- Couple Next Door
- Dragnet
ON TELEVISION:
- Lawrence Welk
- Fight of the Week
- Have Gun Will Travel
- Walt Disney Presents
- Maverick
- Lawman
- Walter Winchell Show
- Jack Benny
- What’s My Line
- This is Your Life
- To Tell the Truth
- Danny Thomas Show
- Andy Griffith Show
- Face The Nation
- Father Knows Best
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents
- Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
- Wagon Train
- My Three Sons
- The Witness
FADS & FASHION:
- Etch-a-Sketch
- Aggravation
- Atomic Cape Canaveral Playset
- Give-A-Show projector
WHAT THINGS COST:
- Car: $2,275
- Gasoline: 31 cents per gallon
- House: $18,500
- Bread: 20 cents per loaf
- Milk: $1.04 per gallon
- Postage Stamp: 4 cents
- Average Annual Salary: $6,227
- Minimum Wage: $1.00 per hour
ACADEMY AWARD – BEST PICTURE:
- The Apartment – romantic comedy by Billy Wilder starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray
TONY AWARD – BEST MUSICAL:
- The Sound of Music – based on a book by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse, music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, choreographed by Joe Layton
PULITZER PRIZES:
- Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (fiction)
- Fiorello! by Jerome Weidman, George Abbott, Jerry Bock, and Sheldon Harnick (drama)
- In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech (history)
- John Paul Jones by Samuel Eliot Morison (biography)
- Heart’s Needle by W.D. Snodgrass (poetry)
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE:
- Albert John Lutuli, South Africa, 1898-1967, President of the African National Congress, a South African liberation movement working to abolish apartheid
TOP SONGS:
- Theme From a Summer Place by Percy Faith
- Are You Lonesome Tonight by Elvis Presley
- It’s Now or Never by Elvis Presley
- Cathy’s Clown by The Everly Brothers
- Stuck on You by Elvis Presley
- I’m Sorry by Brenda Lee
- Running Bear by Johnny Preston
- Save the Last Dance for Me by The Drifters
- Teen Angel by Mark Dinning
- El Paso by Marty Robbins
- The Twist by Chubby Checker
- Alley-Oop by The Hollywood Argyles
- Beyond the Sea by Bobby Darin
- This Magic Moment by The Drifters
- Devil or Angel by Bobby Vee
- Shop Around by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles
- Georgia on My Mind by Ray Charles
- Only the Lonely by Roy Orbison
- Wonderful World by Sam Cooke
- Harbor Lights by The Platters
- Chain Gang by Sam Cooke
- Where or When by Dion and The Belmonts
- Poetry in Motion by Johnny Tillotson
