| Top
News Headlines: |
Sep 29 - Emile Zatopek
runs world record 20,000 m & 10 mile
Sep 29 - 1st color telecast of football game on network, Phila
(CBS)
Sep 29 - S B Nicholson discovers 12th satellite of Jupiter |
| Top
Songs for 1951 |
| Come
On-A My House by Rosemary Clooney |
Because
of You by Tony Bennett |
| If
by Perry Como |
Too
Young by Nat King Cole |
| How
High the Moon by Les Paul & Mary Ford
|
Be
My Love by Mario Lanza |
| Cry
by Johnnie Ray |
Sin
by Eddy Howard |
| Cold,
Cold Heart by Tony Bennett |
Mockin'
Bird Hill by Les Paul & Mary Ford
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| 1951
Prices |
US
President |
| Bread: |
$0.16/loaf |
Harry
S. Truman |
| Milk: |
$0.92/gal |
US
Vice President |
| Eggs: |
$0.72/doz |
Alben
W. Barkley |
| Car: |
$1,800 |
Academy
Award Winners |
| Gas: |
$0.27/gal |
| Best
Picture: |
An American In
Paris |
| |
Produced By Arthur
Freed |
| Best
Actor: |
Humphrey Bogart |
| |
in The African
Queen |
| Best
Actress: |
Vivien Leigh |
| |
in A Streetcar
Named Desire |
|
| House: |
$16,000 |
| Stamp: |
$0.03/ea |
| Avg
Income: |
$4,194/yr |
| Min
Wage: |
$0.75/hr |
| DOW
Avg: |
269 |
| People
born on September 29 |
| 1935 - Jerry Lee
Lewis singer (Great Balls of Fire, Breathless) |
| 1518 - Tintoretto,
Italian painter |
| 1907 - Gene Autry
Tioga Tx, cowpoke/singer/actor/Calif Angels owner |
| 1908 - Greer
Garson North Ireland, actress (Pride & Prejudice) |
| 1929 - Bob
Newhart Oak Park Ill, actor/comedian (Bob Newhart Show) |
| 1942 - Jean-Luc
Ponty France, fusion violinist (Frank Zappa) |
| 1942 - Madeline
Kahn Boston Mass, actress (Young Frankenstein, High
Anxiety) |
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| On
TV in 1951 |
| Your Show of
Shows |
Studio One |
The Ed
Sullivan Show |
Red Skelton
Show |
The Burns and
Allen Show |
| I Love Lucy |
|
| Top
Books in 1951 |
| Amos Fortune,
Free Man by Elizabeth Yates |
From Here to
Eternity by James Jones |
| The Catcher in
the Rye by J. D. Salinger |
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