October 2, 1951
That fall of 1951, gas ran $0.27 a gallon and Truman was in the White House — the Soviet Union had just detonated its second atomic bomb in two years, a development the White House said directly undercut the peace intentions Stalin had been publicly voicing. On the newsstands, James Jones's novel "From Here to Eternity" was sitting atop the fiction bestsellers, and on television, "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts" was the show American households kept coming back to each week. The New York Yankees took the World Series that October by defeating the New York Giants, the same fall that Chinese Communist forces marched into Lhasa and completed their takeover of Tibet, effectively ending the country's independence.
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Magazine Covers — October 2, 1951
NY Times Headlines — Week of October 2, 1951
U.S. China Policy Lattimore'S Work, Stassen Testifies; Republican Leader Describes This Pre-Korean Line As Pro-Red, Anti-Chiang Hits Sharply At Jessup Quotes Senator Vandenberg On 'Dramatic' Scheme For Ending Nationalist Aid Informal Talk At Flushing Meadow U.S. China Policy Held Lattimore'S Mccarthy Continues Attack Stassen Opposed Lattimore Tragic Implications" Seen Summary Of 10 Points
Soviet'S Second Atom Blast In 2 Years Revealed By U. S.; Details Are Kept A Secret; Speed Here Urged White House Says Event Discounts Peace Aims Voiced By Stalin Stresses Security Angle Time And Place Of Explosion Are Withheld--Capital Is Surprised By Report
Yielding To Peiping For Peace In Korea Barred By Acheson; Letter To Senator Smith Says U.S. Opposes Recognition Or U.N. Seat For Red China Ceding Formosa Is Out Secretary Also Declares British Know Our Views--Jessup Hits Back At Critics
Stassen Says Data In 2 Diaries Back His China Charges; Asserts Papers Of Vandenberg And Forfestal Aid Him On 'Softness-To-Reds' Criticism Wants Writings Seized Testifies Late Senator Barred Move, At White House Talk, To Halt Arms For Chiang
Vandenberg Diary Says Top Advisers Fought China Aid; States Truman Told '49 Parley Security Council And Military Favored Halting Supplies Senator Opposed Plan Lattimore Issues Transcript To Dispute Stassen--55 In G.O.P. Attack Jessup
World Events — October 1951
Time Person of the Year — 1951
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Billboard Charts — October 2, 1951
On the bookshelf
On the television
Nielsen Top 10 — 1951–52 Season
At the movies
Box Office & Oscar Winners — October 2, 1951
On the field
Sports Champions — October 2, 1951
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