Happy Birthday Tatersgranny!! 6/2 Happy Birthday!
Friday, June 02, 1961
Top News Headlines This Week:
Jun 3 - "Wildcat" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 172 performances Jun 3 - 93rd Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Sherluck wins in 2:29.2 Jun 3 - JFK & Khrushchev meet in Vienna Jun 4 - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Western Golf Open Jun 8 - Milwaukee sets record of 4 consecutive HRs (Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron Jun 8 - English prince Edward, Duke of Kent, weds Katharine Worsley
Top Songs for 1961
The Lion Sleeps Tonight by Tokens Big Bad John by Jimmy Dean
Pony Time by Chubby Checker Take Good Care of My Baby by Bobby Vee
Tossin' and Turnin' by Bobby Lewis Calcutta by Lawrence Welk
Runaway by Del Shannon Wonderland By Night by Bert Kaempfert
Blue Moon by Marcels Runaround Sue by Dion
1961 Prices US President
Bread: $0.21/loaf John F. Kennedy
Milk: $1.05/gal US Vice President
Eggs: $0.92/doz Lyndon B. Johnson
Car: $2,275 Academy Award Winners
Gas: $0.31/gal Best Picture: West Side Story
Directed By Robert Wise
Best Actor: Maximillian Schell
in Judgment At Nuremberg
Best Actress: Sophia Loren
in Two Women
House: $18,800
Stamp: $0.04/ea
Avg Income: $6,471/yr
Min Wage: $1.15/hr
DOW Avg: 731
People born on June 2
1941 - Stacy Keach Savannah Ga, actor (Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer)
1944 - Marvin Hamlisch US, composer/pianist (The Sting, Chorus Line)
1948 - Jerry Mathers Sioux City Iowa, actor (Beaver-Leave It To Beaver)
On TV in 1961
Dr. Kildare Car 54, Where Are You? The Joey Bishop Show The Defenders The Donna Reed Show
Ben Casey Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color Sing Along with Mitch My Three Sons Hazel
Hot New Toys in 1961
Frosty The Sno-cone Machine Slip 'N Slide Dick Tracy Wrist Radio
Stratego Lie Detector Little Red Spinning Wheel
Mr. Mix-It Beany Copter
Top Books in 1961
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
The City in History by Lewis Mumford Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Art and Illusion by Ernest H. Gombrich
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