Saturday, September 02, 1961
Top News Headlines This Week:
Sep 4 - Carol Burnette-Richard Hayes Show premieres on CBS radio   Sep 4 - US authorizes Agency for International Development   Sep 5 - JFK begins underground nuclear testing   Sep 5 - President Kennedy signs law against hijacking (death penalty)   Sep 5 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR   Sep 6 - USSR performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar USSR  
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    
Runaway by Del Shannon     Tossin' and Turnin' by Bobby Lewis    
Calcutta by Lawrence Welk     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 September 2
1918 - Allen Drury, author (Advise & Consent-1960 Pulitzer Prize)
1931 - Alan K Simpson, minority whip (Sen-R-WY, 1979- )
1951 - Mark Harmon, Burbank Calif, actor (Dr Caldwell-St Elsewhere)
1952 - Jimmy Connors, tennis brat (US Open-78, 82, 83 Wimbledon-74, 82)
On TV in 1961
Dr. Kildare    Car 54, Where Are You?    The Joey Bishop Show   
The Defenders    Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color    The Donna Reed Show   
Ben Casey    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 Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark     The Moviegoer by Walker Percy    
Art and Illusion by Ernest H. Gombrich    
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