June 21, 1955 - Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the United Nations Charter. North Korean pilots defect to South Korea. Big Four Conference in Geneva scheduled for July greeted with enthusiastic anticipation. Winston Churchill welcomes softening of Cold War issues, but is still wary. CIO leader Walter Reuther rejects Auto industry plan for uniform negotiations. Eisenhower extends reciprocal trade agreements.

Newstalgia Weekend Gramophone featuring legendary French Pianist Yvonne Lefebure in two pieces by Debussy, recorded for ORTF in Paris, circa 1955. Please donate and keep Newstalgia alive!

Newstalgia Downbeat featuring Louis Armstrong, live at Basin Street in New York on May 7, 1955.

20th Century Nomads In 1959 - a look at the great Migration West in the 1950's, as presented by the CBS Radio series The Great Challenge, hosted by Howard K. Smith on January 4, 1959.