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Thursday, November 10, 1955
Top News Headlines This Week:
Nov 10 - "Vamp" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 60 performances Nov 12 - E Arcaro, E Sande & G Woolf 1st inductees in Jockey hall of fame Nov 12 - Date returned to in "Back to the Future" & "Back to the Future II" Nov 12 - 1st West German officers sworn in Nov 13 - 1st live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country-Havana Cuba Nov 13 - Argentine gen Pedro Aramburu succeeds E Lonardi as president
Top Songs for 1955
Learnin' the Blues by Frank Sinatra Sixteen Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford
Autumn Leaves by Roger Williams Moments to Remember by Four Lads
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing by Four Aces Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley & His Comets
I Hear You Knocking by Gale Storm The Yellow Rose of Texas by Mitch Miller
Ain't That a Shame by Fats Domino A Blossom Fell by Nat King Cole
1955 Prices US President
Bread: $0.18/loaf Dwight D. Eisenhower
Milk: $0.92/gal US Vice President
Eggs: $0.79/doz Richard M. Nixon
Car: $1,950 Academy Award Winners
Gas: $0.29/gal Best Picture: Marty
Directed By Delbert Mann
Best Actor: Ernest Borgnine
in Marty
Best Actress: Anna Magnani
in The Rose Tattoo
House: $17,600
Stamp: $0.03/ea
Avg Income: $4,962/yr
Min Wage: $0.75/hr
DOW Avg: 488
People born on November 10
1483 - Martin Luther, Eisleben Germany, founded Protestantism
1925 - Richard Burton, South Wales, actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf)
1935 - Roy Scheider Orange NJ, actor (All That Jazz, Jaws)
1959 - MacKenzie Phillips Alexandria VA, actress (Julie-1 Day at a Time)
On TV in 1955
The Lineup The Honeymooners The Chevy Show The $64,000 Question The Phil Silvers Show
The Adventures of Robin Hood The Ed Sullivan Show People are Funny Climax The Perry Como Show
Hot New Toys in 1955
Play-doh Frisbee
Top Books in 1955
The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward The Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy
The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
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