November 2, 1953
That fall of 1953, gas ran $0.29 a gallon and Eisenhower was in the White House — the Soviet Union's growing nuclear capabilities were forcing the Western powers to reassess their Cold War strategy. On the newsstands, "The Robe" was the top-selling novel and the top-grossing film of the season, while "I Love Lucy" was pulling in massive television audiences and taking home the Emmy for best comedy. The New York Yankees defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers in the World Series for their fifth consecutive championship, and in the world of science, researchers Eugene Aserinsky and Nathaniel Kleitman published the first study describing REM sleep, fundamentally changing what scientists understood about how the human body rests.
On the cover
Magazine Covers — November 2, 1953
NY Times Headlines — Week of November 2, 1953
President Bids Dulles, Wilson Coordinate Their Statements; Calls Secretaries To White House As Result Of Delicate World Situation -- They Deny U. S. Will Store Atom Bombs In Spain President Curbs His Cabinet Aides
Soviet Note Dims U. S. Hope For Talk To Stop 'Cold War'; Officials Say Reply On 4-Power Parley Indicates Kremlin Has Revised Peace Aims Firmer Policies Implied Foreign Diplomats Agree That Moscow'S Stand Is Most Negative In Some Time Soviet Note Dims U. S. Hope For Talk
White House Silences Weeks On Labor Law; Weeks Is Silenced In Taft Act Dispute
Voroshilov Calls China Key To Rise Of Reds In World; President Gives A Panoramic View Of The Soviet'S Policy In Marking 1917 Revolution Voroshilov Stresses Value Of China To Progress Of World Communism
3 Balkan Nations Form Secretariat; Yugoslavia, Greece And Turkey Act To Coordinate Military And Other Information
World Events — November 1953
Time Person of the Year — 1953
On the radio
Billboard Charts — November 2, 1953
On the bookshelf
On the television
Nielsen Top 10 — 1953–54 Season
Emmy Winners — 1953
At the movies
Box Office & Oscar Winners — November 2, 1953
On the field
Sports Champions — November 2, 1953
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