News reports, December 24-31, 1958 – CBS Radio News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection
In case you think Christmas 2024 is weirder than most years, I’m afraid to tell you – no, it’s not – well . . .mostly. 1958 was just as strange, and it had The Cold War going for it as well.
For this batch of commentaries, all given between December 24 and 31, 1958, the topics run the gamut from who will appear on the Time Magazine Man Of The Year for 1958 (in 1958 it was still Man of the Year – the gender equality issue didn’t happen until 1999) to the Thor retaliation Missile systems. In the case of Time, the likely candidates for Man of The Year 1958 ran the gamut of personalities who made the news in 1958, and this would be a great opportunity for you to do a Google Search on each of the names. Almost none of the names ring bells these days.
And 1958 was also winding up being a bad weather year, with The Great Blizzard Of 1958 dropping some 40 inches in 24 hours all over the town of Oswego New York. The insane weather had people up and down the Eastern seaboard talking and wondering who and where it would hit next. A new term was coined to go along with this type of weather – Snowburst became the new word used to describe just how much of a fast moving mess this was. And it was Christmas time too.
So 1958 was just as bad a year as most others. And to remind you, here are several commentaries from CBS Radio News for the period of December 24-31, 1958.
Merry Christmas – happy holidays – survive and don’t go crazy.
Our annual Christmas annoyance for support:
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Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas 1958 – Past Daily Holiday Reference Room
News reports, December 24-31, 1958 – CBS Radio News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection
In case you think Christmas 2024 is weirder than most years, I’m afraid to tell you – no, it’s not – well . . .mostly. 1958 was just as strange, and it had The Cold War going for it as well.
For this batch of commentaries, all given between December 24 and 31, 1958, the topics run the gamut from who will appear on the Time Magazine Man Of The Year for 1958 (in 1958 it was still Man of the Year – the gender equality issue didn’t happen until 1999) to the Thor retaliation Missile systems. In the case of Time, the likely candidates for Man of The Year 1958 ran the gamut of personalities who made the news in 1958, and this would be a great opportunity for you to do a Google Search on each of the names. Almost none of the names ring bells these days.
And 1958 was also winding up being a bad weather year, with The Great Blizzard Of 1958 dropping some 40 inches in 24 hours all over the town of Oswego New York. The insane weather had people up and down the Eastern seaboard talking and wondering who and where it would hit next. A new term was coined to go along with this type of weather – Snowburst became the new word used to describe just how much of a fast moving mess this was. And it was Christmas time too.
So 1958 was just as bad a year as most others. And to remind you, here are several commentaries from CBS Radio News for the period of December 24-31, 1958.
Merry Christmas – happy holidays – survive and don’t go crazy.
Our annual Christmas annoyance for support:
Holy crap! It’s almost the end of the year! Past Daily is still standing, still cranking out history and pop culture and still looking for your support. Fundraisers are pretty much tapped out this year – everybody seems to be doing them and even I’m sick of being hounded for money.
But the fact of the matter is – some of these things are expensive to pull off. In case you didn’t already know, Past Daily is an extension of my archive – the stuff I have collected since the beginning of time (it seems) – my goal is to share all of it with you, and since we’ve started there are over 11,000 posts which you, as a subscriber can explore and there are thousands more waiting.
Better still – once you subscribe you get notified every time we post something and you can download the audio file which you can’t do if you don’t subscribe. That’s the catch.
But it’s my way of saying Thank You for your support and helping me pay all the costs of keeping Past Daily up and running every day.
And subscribing is easy and painless – you can do it with Patreon – you can stretch it out over months, years or just today. You can do a trial subscription for 7 days and then you can either join us or go “no thanks” and life will continue.
But your support is critical. Over this past year we’ve resumed running ads – simply because it’s helping offset the costs we can’t get around, but don’t have enough subscribers to do away with ads completely (believe me, I hate ads just as much as the next person – maybe more). Right now, a little over 100 of you are foregoing a cup of Starbucks in favor of downloading a concert or a World War 2 newscast – and I am completely over-the-moon for your support. But we need more of you. We need 900 more to make a difference.
So all you have to do is click on the red banner below and make your pledge – you can also do Pay Pal or Buy Me A Coffee if you just want to do a one-time support.
But however you decide to do it, we’re grateful. We’ll be here as long as you are.
We could use the company.
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