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WASHINGTON, April 1-- President Eisenhower attended Easter services this morning, posed for pictures with relatives, and made some comments about his wife's hat.
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CAIRO, April 1--Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser has declared that he still holds in his pocket a Soviet offer to help finance the construction of the proposed High Dam at Aswan.
Overcoats and winter furs abounded in the Easter parade on Fifth Avenue yesterday. The earliest Easter since 1951 was also one of the chilliest in recent years in New York.
Cogen hints some compromise is possible in Guild demand for $500 rise, TV int; says concessions might be pay for extracurricular work and decrease in number of increment steps; opposes diverting funds for increase from amt earmarked for improving school services; Roy disputes Wagner claim that $21 million out of $34.7 million in additional state aid is being allotted for pay adjustments; Teachers Union offers compromise plan to resolve some differences among teacher groups
1956As the World Turns and The Edge of Night premiere on CBS. The two soaps become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30-minute format.[†]
As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS for 54 years from April 2, 1956, to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light. With 13,763 hours of cumulative narrative, As the World Turns has the longest total running time of any television show. In terms of continuous run of production, As the World Turns at 54 years holds the fourth-longest run of any daytime network soap opera on American television, surpassed only by General Hospital, Guiding Light, and Days of Our Lives. As the World Turns was produced for its first 43 years in Manhattan and in Brooklyn from 2000 until 2010.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]