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Monday, December 14, 1953
Top News Headlines This Week:
Dec 14 - Brooklyn Dodgers sign pitcher Sandy Koufax Dec 15 - WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City FL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting Dec 16 - 1st White House Press Conference (President Eisenhower & 161 reporters) Dec 16 - Charles E Yeager flies over 2,575 kph (1,650 mph) in Bell X-1A (first man to fly at nearly two and one-half times the speed of sound) Dec 17 - Dmitri Shostakovich's 10th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad Dec 17 - FCC approves RCA's black & white-compatible color TV specifications
Top Songs for 1953
I'm Walking Behind You by Eddie Fisher Song from Moulin Rouge by Percy Faith
You You You by Ames Brothers Don't Let the Stars Get In Your Eyes by Perry Como
Vaya Con Dios by Les Paul & Mary Ford No Other Love by Perry Como
Rags to Riches by Tony Bennett The Doggie In the Window by Patti Page
Till I Waltz Again with You by Teresa Brewer St. George and the Dragonet by Stan Freberg
1953 Prices US President
Bread: $0.16/loaf Dwight D. Eisenhower
Milk: $0.94/gal US Vice President
Eggs: $0.75/doz Richard M. Nixon
Car: $1,850 Academy Award Winners
Gas: $0.29/gal Best Picture: From Here To Eternity
Directed By Fred Zinnemann
Best Actor: William Holden
in Stalag 17
Best Actress: Audrey Hepburn
in Roman Holiday
House: $17,400
Stamp: $0.03/ea
Avg Income: $4,706/yr
Min Wage: $0.75/hr
DOW Avg: 281
People born on December 14
1932 - Charlie "Silver Fox" Rich Colt AR, singer (Behind Closed Doors)
1935 - Lee Remick Quincy MA, actress (Days of Wine & Rose, Long Hot Summer)
1946 - Patty Duke [Anna Marie] Elmhurst NY, actress (Miracle Worker)
On TV in 1953
This Is Your Life I Married Joan The Milton Berle Show
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show The Jackie Gleason Show General Electric Theatre
The Buick Circus Hour Private Secretary The Life of Riley
Our Miss Brooks
Hot New Toys in 1953
Plastic Army Men
Top Books in 1953
The Mirror and the Lamp by Meyer Howard Abrams Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
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