September 12, 2013

• 1954

  The Godfather, aka  http://godfatherofgreenbay.xanga.com/, is trying to get us Xangans to be more community-ish by doing an old survey he dug out of his archives.  I thought it was interesting and I learned some things about the stone age in the process

  List  notable news events from the year you were born:

  Geneva Conference is convened to bring peace to Vietnam. The country is divided at the 17th parallel, pending democratic elections.

  In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka the Supreme Court  unanimously bans racial segregation in public schools (May 17).

  First atomic submarine the Nautilus launched (Jan. 21).

  Dr. Jonas Salk starts inoculating children against Polio.

   William Faulkner's " A Fable"  wins Pulitzer.

  List  TV shows  from the year you were born:

  • Howdy Doody (1947–1960).
  • The Ed Sullivan Show (1948–1971).
  • I Love Lucy (1951–1960).
  • The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952–1966).
  • American Bandstand (1952–1989).

  List   popular songs from the year you were born:

  1	Rock Around The Clock	Bill Haley & His Comets
  2	Shake, Rattle And Roll	Joe Turner / Bill Haley & His Comets
  3	Earth Angel	Penguins
  4	Sh-Boom	Chords
  5	That's All Right	Elvis Presley with Scotty and Bill

  List a video game from the year you were born:

  There were no video games in 1954 =/

  List a car from the year you were born:

  
   1954 Mercedes-Benz W196R Formula 1 Single-Seater, which  broke the following auction world records:

  • Most valuable motor car ever sold at auction
  • Most valuable Formula 1 racing car ever sold
  • Most valuable Mercedes-Benz

  List a movie from the year you were born:

  On the Waterfront

  Best Picture: On the Waterfront

  Best Director: Elia Kazan - On The Waterfront

  Best Actor: Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront

  Best Supporting Actress: Eva Marie Saint - On The Waterfront

  A notable political figure from the year you were born:

  President Dwight Eisenhower

  

  supposedly made the following statement on November 8, 1954:

  "Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."

  In addition to being a war hero, a decent fellow, a moderate Republican before they began to go extinct, President Eisenhower apparently was also quite the prophet. Little George W. Bush was about 9 years old at the time...

   according to snopes he actually penned these thoughts in a letter to  his brother Edgar Newton Eisenhower on the above mentioned date.

  List 5 TV characters you’d like to get nasty with:

  Walt Disney - Walt Disneys Wonderful World of Color

  Robert Young - Father Knows Best

  James Dean - Pepsi Commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA6QGLSuDuU

  Red Skelton - The Red Skelton Hour

  Jack Lemmon - The Road of Life

  I will add here that I'm a monogamist, but if I weren't it would be pretty Nasty and Illegal because all these guys are dead now =/

  There ya go....I'm feelin all communityish now =)

  p.s.  President Eisenhower may have been a wonderful man but it's not nice to call people stupid,

  as Forest would say forty years later:

  "Stupid is as Stupid Does"

  ilym

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