The geodesic dome by Buckminster Fuller was unveiled in Baton Rouge.
Popular
movies included
Gigi starring Leslie
Caron and Maurice
Chevalier
Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof
starring Elizabeth Taylor,
Paul Newman and
Burl Ives
Marjorie
Morningstar
starring Gene Kelly and Natalie
Wood
Separate Tables starring Burt
Lancaster, Rita Hayworth and David
Niven
I Want To Live! starring Susan
Hayward.
Fiction included Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s, John
O’Hara’s From the Terrace, and Bernard Malamud’s The Magic
Barrel.
Popular songs included Danny and the Juniors’ “At the Hop,” Elvis
Presley’s “Don’t” and “Hard-Headed Woman,” McGuire Sisters’
“Sugartime,” Silhouettes’s “Get a Job,” Champs’ “Tequila,” Everly
Brothers’ “All I Have To Do Is Dream” and “Bird Dog,” Platters’s
“Twilight Time,” Perry Como’s “Catch a Falling Star, and Laurie
London’s “He’s Got the Whole World In His Hands.”
Alan Freed was arrested for inciting a riot during a rock ‘n’ roll show
in Boston.
The first
Grammy Award was presented by the National Academy of
Recording Arts and Sciences to the song “Volare,” lyrics by Mitchell
Paris and music by Dominic Modugno.
Pizza Hut
opened its first restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri.
February 25-March 1: Wood alcohol
poisoning killed twenty-seven people in New York City who drank
moonshine called King Kong.
March 19: Kentucky governor Albert
B. Chandler signed a bill abolishing daylight savings time in the state.
March 24: Elvis
Presley was inducted
into the U.S. Army.
October 2: Leonard Bernstein began
his first season as director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.