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9 records found for Estes Kefauver
1951-03-15, , min.
From New York, the Estes Kefauver Senate crime hearings. Voices include Senator Kefauver, Rudolph Halley, Frank Costello, Virginia Hill Erickson, William O'Dwyer, and Charles W.Tobey
1956-04-04, WNBC, min.
- Tex McCrary
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Richard Rodgers
- Jinx Falkenburg
- Estes Kefauver
- Oscar Hammerstein
- Adlai Stevenson
- Dag Hammarskjold
TEX AND JINX Radio & Television BROADCAST HISTORY: April 22, 1946- February 27, 1959. WEAF (WNBC, WRCA), New York weekdays at 8:30 A.M. until 1954; at 1:00pm,1954-1955; then at 6:30 and 10:35pm until July 31, 1958, moving briefly to WOR, broadcasting at 2:15pm. In addition to the Kollmars (Dorothy Kilgallen and husband Richard Kollmar) and the Fitzgeralds (Pegeen and husband Ed Fitzgerald), another well-recognized New York couple, newlyweds Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg, added their own bread-and-bacon banter to the local airwaves between 1946 and 1959. Their gabfest, initially Hi Jinx but later revised to Tex and Jinx, was beamed over WEAF which was subsequently re-lettered WNBC and later WRCA. In limited doses, the flagship outlet of the National Broadcasting Company transmitted Meet Tex and Jinx to the whole country during 1947 and 1948. Tex and Jinx devoted most of their airtime to lofty and noble concepts, visitors and sidebars. Tex and Jinx [on WEAF-WNBC-WRCA] were interviewing Bernard Baruch, Margaret Truman, or Ethel Waters…. McCrary built the show on the assumption that the early morning audience was not stupid, as programmers generally assumed; that people in general had fresher minds and were more open to serious topics at the beginning of the day.” Their joint radio venture began in April 1946 just 10 months following their nuptials (June 10, 1945). Launched as a breakfast feature, the series later shifted to afternoons and finally into the evening hours before departing the ether a dozen years afterward. They were branded by one journalist “Mr. Brains and Mrs. Beauty.” In early 1947 NBC put them on its television network as a portion of a Sunday evening quarter-hour dubbed Bristol-Myers Tele-Varieties. “The McCrarys were naturals for TV,” wrote a reviewer, “with their combination of friendly chatter, interviews, and features.” That summer the web awarded them an exclusive Sunday night half-hour format under the appellation At Home with Tex and Jinx. A decade later, in the 1957-58 season, the duo hosted a daytime NBC-TV showcase, The Tex and Jinx Show. When hepatitis sidetracked Falkenburg in 1958 from their broadcast commitments, McCrary carried on solo on their radio show for another couple of years. In the 1980s, however, the couple separated, remaining on genial terms. McCrary died in New York on July 29, 2003 and Falkenburg expired just 29 days later in the same city, on August 27, 2003. NOTE:: The scores of TEX AND JINX SHOWS archived by Archival Television Audio, Inc. were originally obtained as original 16" Electronic Discs from Barry Farber, producer of the show (1957-1959), in 1960 after he had begun his own career in front of the mike at WINS Radio. These discs were subsequently transferred to 1/4" reel to reel tape, and then disposed. These broadcasts are rare and represent the largest known collection of TEX AND JINX extant broadcasts in the world. Today's Headlines: Tex McCrary interviews Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. They relate how they first met, to receive the Alex Hamilton Award at Columbia University. WRCA News: Kefauver and Eisenhower both claim victory in the Wisconsin primary. Adlai Stevenson enters presidential race. Clash in Middle East, UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold on way to Middle East.1956-05-04, WNBC, min.
Today's Headlines: Newspaper reporter Victor Reisel will suffer remainder of life with blindness following acid attack on his eyes. Harold Stassen and Estes Kefauver join presidential campaign.1956-11-01, WNBC, 8 min.
Highlights: UN General Assembly meeting, heavy fighting in Egypt, Secretary of State Dulles at the UN, Stevenson says US troop deployment is a miserable failure, no fighting in Budapest, airfields are surrounded by Russian tanks, New reports of Russian troop movements, Senator Estes Kefauver accuses the Eisenhower administration of poor foreign policy. John K.M. McCaffery signs off with his famous "what kind of day will it be tomorrow?" NOTE: A signature sign off by newscaster John K.M. McCaffery, "What kind of a day will it be Tomorrow?"
#13075: ELECTION DAY 1956
Order1956-11-06, , 1 min.
A commercial for the Adlai Stevenson-Estes Kefauver Democratic ticket urging Americans to vote for them.
#13127: BIG NEWS OF 1956, THE
Order1956-12-30, CBS, 46 min.
- Charles Collingwood
- Grace Kelly
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Don Larsen
- Joe Smith
- John F. Kennedy
- Richard Nixon
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Estes Kefauver
- Prince Rainier
- John Kasper
CBS NEWS: Top News Stories Of 1956 Highlights: PresidentEisenhower health problems, announced candidacy at Democratic Convention, Vice Presidential battle between Senator John F. Kennedy and Senator Estes Kefauver, Republican Convention, nomination, Presidential campaign topics, Eisenhower and Nixon were expected to be nominated by acclamation when a lone delegate voted for a fictitious candidate named "Joe Smith." The sinking of the Andrea Doria, 700 people die in weekend automobile accidents, two airlines collide over Grand Canyon Arizona, 128 die, the problem of overcrowded skies, Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco, racial problems in the South in Clinton, Tennessee, huge school desegregation riots, interviews with negroes and whites, including John Kasper, violent segregationist and member of the Klu Klux Klan, Don Larsen's perfect World Series game, Khruschev denounces Stalin cult, Polish riots, Hungarian revolution, Cyprus revolt against British occupation, Middle East crisis, Anglo-French, Israeli-Eygptian war. Host: Charles Collingwood.
1957-03-23, , 54 min.
A review of the 1956 Democratic campaign.
1961-04-14, NBC, min.
- David Brinkley
- Chet Huntley
- Fidel Castro
- John F. Kennedy
- Estes Kefauver
- Nilita Khrushchev
- Yuri Gagarin
- Alexander Wiley
Highlights: Yuri Gagarin receives a hero's welcome in Moscow, he's greeted by Nikita Khrushchev, more anti-Castro sabotage in Cuba, Castro accuses President Kennedy of being an arsonist, a rebel uprising in Angola, UN sends Indian troops to Congo, planes airlift 2100 troops, Senators Alexander Wiley and Estes Kefauver Hassel over electrical price fixing,
1963-08-10, , min.
The Kennedy baby is buried following death from respiratory ailments, Ex-Senator Estes Kefauver has died, the English police are looking for clues in the great mail robbery in which $7 million dollars was stolen, White Castle diners to employ more negroes, Catholics to support August 28th march to Washington, volunteer teachers to go to Virginia to instruct schooling negroes on Prince Edward Island.