American Decades
The Huntley-Brinkley Report
"Mileage in Morality"
Newspaper article
By: Robert Lewis Shayon
Date: December 28, 1957
Source: Shayon, Robert Lewis. "Mileage in Morality." The Saturday Review, December 28, 1957, 24.
About the Author: Robert Lewis Shayon was a radio and TV critic for The Saturday Review from 1950–1970 and the Christian Science Monitor from 1950–1951. He also wrote TV scripts, and was a producer and director for CBS in the 1940s and NBC in the 1950s and 1960s.
"The Evening Duet"
Magazine article
By: Time
Date: October 19, 1959
Source: "The Evening Duet." Time, October 19, 1959, 92.
About the Publication: Time was founded in 1923 by Henry Luce. It quickly became one of America's most widely read news magazines, remaining popular into the twenty-first century.
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1950's Media Primary Sources
- Charles Schulz's Peanuts
- "New York: Nightmare"
- Celebrity Deaths in the 1950s
- News is a Singular Thing
- Alan Freed Popularizes Rock 'n' Roll
- "What Killed Collier's?"
- "Common Sense and Sputnik"
- Leave It to Beaver
- The Huntley-Brinkley Report
- Communists in the Media
- "Ed Sullivan—Ten Years of TV"
- Dick Clark's American Bandstand
- Charles Van Doren and the Quiz Show Scandal
- Love, Alice: My Life As a Honeymooner
- "The Politics of Race: An Interview with Harry Ashmore"
- Love, Lucy
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
