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There are 15,500,000 TV sets in 15,750,000 homes.

There were 36,996 motor vehicle related deaths. While in the air, there were 11 accidents resulting in 185 deaths.

Unemployment: 3.3%

In the News


Gen. Douglas MacArthur, relieved of his duties by President Truman, bade farewell to congress.

U.S. Congress ratifies the Twenty-second amendment, limiting presidents to two terms in office.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of selling atomic secrets to the soviets.

Margaret Sanger, pioneer of birth control, urges development of an oral contraceptive.

American casualties in Korea by the end of 1951- 15,000 dead and 75,000 wounded.

In Other News

Direct dial, coast to coast telephone service began as Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, New Jersey called his counterpart, Mayor Frank Osborn in Alameda, California.

J. Andre-Thomas invents the first heart-lung machine.

CBS introduces color TV in a program hosted by Ed Sullivan.













And the winner is...

Best Picture: An American in Paris
Best Actor: Humphrey Bogart for The African Queen
Best Actress: Vivien Leigh for A Streetcar Named Desire


(awards presented at the 1952 Academy Awards)





What's New?
Tupperware
sugerless chewing gum
Jack in the Box opens in San Diego
S&H Green Stamps get their start at the Denver Store Chain King Sooper
Still cameras get built in flash units
Super glue
Charles Ginsburg invents the first videotape recorder (VTR).
Power steering, by Chrysler Corporation
Tropicana poducts
The Topps Company starts its first baseball card series. The series consists of two individual sets of 52 cards each.




SportsCenter



20 year old outfielder Willie Mays joins the N.Y.Giants, while Joe Dimaggio retires from baseball.
N.Y. Yankees over the N.Y. Giants in the World Series.
N.Y. Yankee Mickey Mantle sees his first game, he goes 1 for 4.
Cleveland Browns beat LA Rams 30-28 in the NFL Championship game.
Citation becomes the 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races.




In the Bookstore

11,000 new books will debut this year, among them:

Herman wouk's The Caine Mutiny
J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
James Jones novel From Here to Eternity
Gayelord Hauser's Look Younger, Live Longer
Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us.
On the magazine rack
 Jet newsmagazine




























Cool Fifties