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Year End Review

Item number (ISN):

370619

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

370619

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: MAIN CATALOGUE

Accession:

1984-0164

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

1955-12-30

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

producer, Norman DePoe; commentator, Harry Mannis; De B. Holly

Description:

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Radio program of highlights of the year 1955. Actuality of crew call-up as the sealing fleet puts to sea in Newfoundland. Actuality of Jonas Salk in Ann Arbor, Michigan, about his polio vaccine. Actuality about the Cold War -- Sir Anthony Eden expressing good faith in America wanting peace, with regard to the Formosa crisis; U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking hopefully before the May meetings in Geneva, and after the conference he says maybe negotiation free of propaganda is possible; John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State, says after the foreign ministers' meetings in Geneva in October that the meeting did not achieve anything; actuality of German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, speaking in German, after the May 5 ratification agreement; and actuality of MP Sir Winston Churchill congratulating the British government in the House of Commons about the Geneva talks. Events in Britain: actuality of R.A. Butler, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announcing tax cuts before the General Elections; actuality of Anthony Eden on winning the election, and actualities of a BBC news reader announcing Princess Margaret's renunciation of Group Captain Peter Townsend and the Archbishop of Canterbury declaring that it was her decision. Reports on fads, fashions and newsworthy events: excerpts of Davy Crockett songs and Toronto women talk about their garden hose burrowing; Shirley Campbell speaks about almost swimming across Lake Ontario, on-the-spot report of Marilyn Bell arriving at Dover after swimming the English Channel, Bert Thomas gasping out his tale of "one year of sheer torture for us and our family" after swimming the Strait of Juan de Fuca in July 1955, and actuality of Eisenhower thanking the public for flowers and prayers during his heart attack. News of the United Nations: Dag Hammarskjold, UN Secretary General, expresses hope in the Bandung Conference and the Geneva Conference; actuality of a conversation between Lester B. Pearson and Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow, with Khrushchev laughing twice, Pearson pleading that he is lost and Pearson trying to explain NATO; actuality of Nationalist China's delegate to the UN protesting the admission of Outer Mongolia; and actuality of statements by South Africa's delegate and France's Antoine Pinay as they walk out of the UN over the Algerian situation. Reports on trouble spots: the announcer reviews the trouble between France and Algeria; actuality of an Israeli originally from Toronto who speaks of the air raids in Israel; and actualities from Buenos Aires, including a broadcast in Portuguese reporting on anti-Peron riots and then via a New York broadcaster's translation, and Peron speaking from his secret headquarters. Canadian highlights: a prairie farmer talking about food surpluses; Coach Grant Warwick thanks Canadian supporters of the Penticton V's, world hockey champions; Clarence Campbell condemns rough hockey and declares Rocket Richard suspended, actuality of St. Catherine Street riot, and Richard appealing to his backers to be peaceful. Noble Conclusions: Actuality of Dr. Julius Robert Oppenheimer giving a eulogy for Albert Einstein. Queen Elizabeth II says that science solves and creates problems. <45mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. For consultation copy see tape 1983-0014/096.

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Vault ISN:

417389

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1984-0164/4310

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

DISC

Stock:

TRANS

Technical description:

ALUM

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

1060148

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

370619-1984-0164-4310.WAV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

BWF

Duration:

47:02

Made from:

1984-0164/4310

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

~To be Determined / À déterminer

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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