Sports

NBA: Rocester Royals
NCAA Football: Tennessee
Heisman Trophy: Richard Kazmaler
Stanley Cup: Montreal
US Open Golf: Ben Hogan Score: 287 Course: Merion Golf Club Location: Ardmore, PA
World Cup: Uruguay vs. Brazil Score: 2-1
World Series: New York Yankees vs. Philadelphia Phillies Series: 4-0

Top Movies

1. David and Bathsheba
2. Showboat
3. An American In Paris -
4. The Great Caruso
5. A Streetcar Named Desire
6. Born Yesterday
7. That's My Boy
8. A Place in the Sun
9. At War with the Army
10. Father's Little Dividend

 

Academy Awards

Best Picture: ". An American In Paris"
Best Director:George Stevens..."A Place in the Sun"
Best Actor:Humphery Bogart..."The African Queen"
Best Actress: Vivien Leigh..."A Streetcar Named Desire"

Emmy Awards

Dramatic Show: Studio One

Comedy Show: Red Skeleton Show

Variety Show: Your Show of Shows

 

Tony Awards

Best Play: "The Fourposter"...Jan de Hartog Best Musical: "The King and I"
Best Actor in a play: Jose Ferrer..."The Shrike"
Best Actress:Phil Silvers..."Top Banana"
Best Actress in a Musical :Gertrude Lawrence..."The King and I"

Nobel Prize

Chemistry

The prize was awarded jointly to:

McMILLAN, EDWIN MATTISON, U.S.A., University of California, Berkeley, CA, b. 1907, d. 1991; and

SEABORG, GLENN THEODORE, U.S.A., University of California, Berkeley, CA, b. 1912, d. 1999:

"for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements"

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Literature

LAGERKVIST, PÄR FABIAN, Sweden, b. 1891, d. 1974:

"for the artistic vigour and true independence of mind with which he
endeavours in his poetry to find answers to the eternal questions
confronting mankind"

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Peace

LÉON JOUHAUX , France, President of the trade union C.G.T. Force Ouvrière. President of the International Committee of the European Council, Vice President of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, Vice President of the World Federation of Trade Unions, member of the ILO Council, delegate to the UN.

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Physiology or Medicine

THEILER, MAX, Union of South Africa, Laboratories Division of Medicine and
Public Health, Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY, U.S.A., b. 1899, d.
1972:

"for his discoveries concerning yellow fever and how to combat it"

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Physics

The prize was awarded jointly to:

COCKCROFT, Sir JOHN DOUGLAS, Great Britain, Atomic Energy Research
Establishment, Harwell, Didcot, Berks., b. 1897, d. 1967; and

WALTON, ERNEST THOMAS SINTON, Ireland, Dublin University, b. 1903, d. 1995:

"for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by
artificially accelerated atomic particles"

Pulitzer Prizes

Drama: Richard Rodgers..."Oscar Hammerstein"
Fiction: A.B. Guthrie Jr. ..."The Way West"
History: Oliver W. Larkin... "Art and Life in America"
International Reporting: Edmund Stevens... "Christian Science Monitor"
National Reporting: Edwin O. Guthman..."Seattle Times"
Public Service: "Chicago Daily News"