Famous headlines & sports: The Korean War ; Nixon's "Checkers speech" ; The Edsel, and many more headlines of the 50's! ; New York Yankees dominate baseball ; Willie Mays ; Florence Chadwick swims the English Channel ; Pele, plus so much more -- Lifestyles & entertainment: Suburbia ; Cars with fins ; Drive-in movies, the fads, fashions, and ads of the 50's ; Entertainment highlight's of the 50's including music, movies, TV and radio -- The American political scence: Harry S. Truman in the White House ; Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Adlai Stevenson ; and the McCarthy Hearings -- The hits of the decade: Running bear / Johnny Preston -- It's only make believe / Conway Twitty ; It's all in the game / Tommy Edwards ; The Tennessee waltz / Patti Page ; Smoke gets in your eyes / The Platters ; Honeycomb / Jimmie Rodgers ; Teen angel / Mark Dinning ; Party doll / Buddy Knox ; Kiss of fire / Georgia Gibbs ; The purple people eater / Sheb Wooley.