In Breaking Walls episode 159 it’s January of 1956 and we’re in New York City with Johnny Dollar. As he investigates the Todd Matter, we’ll investigate New York and national current events. —————————— Highlights: • CBS Radio in early 1956 • Orson Welles Returns To a Changing New York • Grace Kelly Gets Engaged • Dollar Gets a Stolen Mink Coat Tipoff • Dollar Argues with a Police Sergeant • Will Eisenhower Run For a Second Term? • The Death of a Beautiful Woman • Dollar Gets Wounded • The End of Johnny Dollar • Looking Ahead to Broadway is My Beat —————————— The WallBreakers: thewallbreakers.com Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts. To support the show: patreon.com/TheWallBreakers —————————— The reading material used in today’s episode was: • The Who Is Johnny Dollar Matter — By John C. Abbott • On The Air — By John Dunning • Network Radio Ratings — By Jim Ramsburg As well as articles and features from • Broadcasting Magazine • The New Yorker • The 1955 Broadcasting Magazine Yearbook • The 1955 Radio Networks Annual • The Winter 1956 Journal of Broadcasting Quarterly —————————— On the interview front: • Shirley Mitchell and Virginia Gregg spoke with Chuck Schaden. Hear these full chats at Speakingofradio.com. • Hans Conreid and Mandel Kramer spoke to Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. Hear these interviews at Goldenage-WTIC.org • Roberta Bailey-Goodwin, Elliott Lewis, and E. Jack Neuman spoke with John Dunning for his 71KNUS program from Denver. • Lawrence Dobkin, Herb Ellis, Jack Johnstone, and Marvin Miller spoke with SPERDVAC. For more info, go to SPERDVAC.com • William S. Paley spoke for CBS’s 50th Anniversary in 1977 —————————— Selected music featured in today’s episode was: • I’ll Take Manhattan — By Blossom Dearie —————————— Thank you to: Tony Adams Steven Allmon Glenn B. John M. Baker Stuart Bershtein Dale Bonifant Cecilia Orson Orsen Chandler Phil Erickson Ray Greenberg Kevin Halstead Jessica Hanna Perri Harper Diane Holmes Ed Howell Thomas M. Joyce Ryan Kramer Gerrit Lane Kevin McLaughlin Earl Millard Andrew Milner Gary Mollica Ursula Moran-Stearns William Moyer Barry Nadler Christian Neuhaus John R. Nicholson Dave Ratcliffe Maureen Scully Ray Shaw Wa6cp Terry Wallace John Williams Jim W. WildEyeWheel Thomas Zotti