Sports
NBA: Minneapolis Lakers vs. New Yorks Knicks Series: 4-3
NCAA Football: Maryland Record: 10-1-0
Heisman Trophy: John Lattner, notre dame, HB points: 1,850
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins Series: 4-1
US Open Golf: Ben Hogan Score: 283 Course: Oakmont CC Location: Oakmont, PA
World Series: New York Yankees vs. Brooklyn Dodgers Series: 4-2
Academy Awards
Best Picture: "From Here to Eternity"
Best Director: Fred Zinnemann ... "From Here to Eternity"
Best Actor: William Holden ... "Stalag 17"
Best Actress: Audrey Hepburn ... "Roman Holiday"
Movies
1. The Robe
2. From Here to Eternity
3. Shane
4. How to Marry a Millionaire
5. Peter Pan
6. Hans Christian Anderson
7. House of Wax
8. Mogambo
9. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
10. Moulin Rouge
Emmy Awards
Dramatic Awards: " U.S. Steel Hour" (ABC)
Situation Comedy " I Love Lucy: (CBS)
Variety Show: "Omnibus" (CBS)
New Show: "Make Room for Daddy" (ABC)
& "U.S. Steel Hour" (ABC)
Most Popular Television Shows
1. I Love Lucy (CBS)
2. Dragnet (NBC)
3. Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts (CBS)
4. You Bet Your Life (NBC)
5. The Milton Berle Show (NBC)
6. Arthur Godfrey and His Friends (CBS)
7. Ford Theatre (NBC)
8. The Jackie Gleason Show (CBS)
9. Fireside Theatre (NBC)
10. The Colgate Comedy Hour (NBC)
Pulitzer Prizes
Drama:William Inge..."Picnic"
Fiction: Ernest Hemingway...
"The Old Man and the Sea"
History:George Dangerfield...
"The Era of Good Feelings"
International Reporting:Austin Wehrwein...
"Milwaukee Journal"
National Reporting:Don Whitehead..."Associated Press"
Public Service"Whiteville (N.C.) News Repoter" &
"Tabor City (N.C.) Tribune"
Most Popular Books
Fiction
1. " The Robe"...Lloyd C. Douglas. Houghton Mifflin
2."The Silver Chalice"... Thomas B. Costain. Doubleday
3."Desiree"...Annemarie Selinko. Morrow
4."Battle Cry"...Leon M. Uris. Putnam
5."From Here to Eternity"...James Jones. Scribner
6."The High and the Mighty"...Ernest K. Gann. Sloane
7."Beyond This Place"... A. J. Cronin. Little, Brown
8."Time and Time Again"...James Hilton. Little, Brown
9."Lord Vanity"...Samuel Shellabarger. Little, Brown
10. "The Unconquered"...Ben Ames Williams. Houghton Mifflin
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Nonfiction
1."The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version"... Nelson
2."The Power of Positive Thinking"... Norman Vincent Peale.
Prentice-Hall
3."Sexual Behavior in the Human Female"...Alfred C. Kinsey and
others. Saunders
4."Angel Unaware"... Dale Evans Rogers. Revell
5."Life Is Worth Living"... Fulton J. Sheen. McGraw-Hill
6."A Man Called Peter"...Catherine Marshall. McGraw-Hill
7."This I Believe"... ed. by Edward P. Morgan; foreword by
Edward R. Murrow. Simon & Schuster
8."The Greatest Faith Ever Known"...Fulton Oursler and
G. A. 0. Armstrong. Doubleday
9."How to Play Your Best Golf"...Tommy Armour. Simon & Schuster
10. "A House Is Not a Home"...Polly Adler. Rinehart
Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
STAUDINGER, HERMANN, Germany, University of Freiburg im Breisgau and
Staatliches Institut für makromolekulare Chemie (State Research Institute
for Macromolecular Chemistry), Freiburg in Br., b. 1881, d. 1965:
"for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry"
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Literature
CHURCHILL, Sir WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER, Great Britain, b. 1874, d. 1965:
"for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for
brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values"
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Peace
GEORGE CATLETT MARSHALL , General, President American Red Cross, ex-Secretary of State and of Defense, Delegate to the U.N., Originator of the Marshall Plan.
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Physiology or Medicine
The prize was divided equally between:
KREBS, Sir HANS ADOLF, Great Britain, Sheffield University, b. 1900 (in
Hildesheim, Germany), d. 1981:
"for his discovery of the citric acid cycle"; and
LIPMANN, FRITZ ALBERT, U.S.A., Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts
General Hospital, Boston, MA, b. 1899 (in Koenigsberg, then Germany), d.
1986:
"for his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary
metabolism"
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Physics
ZERNIKE, FRITS (FREDERIK), the Netherlands, Groningen University, b. 1888,
d. 1966:
"for his demonstration of the phase contrast method, especially for his
invention of the phase contrast microscope"
