On This Day...

Saturday, July 11, 1953 Top News Headlines This Week: Jul 12 - KTVB TV channel 7 in Boise, ID (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting   Jul 13 - J A Bruwer discovers asteroids #1658 Innes & #3284   Jul 14 - 1st natl monument dedicated to a Negro-George Washington Carver   Jul 14 - NL beats AL 5-1 in 20th All Star Game (Crosley Field Cincinnati)   Jul 14 - 20th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati   Jul 14 - Communist offensive in Korea   Top Songs for 1953 I'm Walking Behind You by Eddie Fisher     Song from Moulin Rouge by Percy Faith     You You You by Ames Brothers     Don't Let the Stars Get In Your Eyes by Perry Como     Vaya Con Dios by Les Paul & Mary Ford     No Other Love by Perry Como     Rags to Riches by Tony Bennett     The Doggie In the Window by Patti Page     Till I Waltz Again with You by Teresa Brewer     St. George and the Dragonet by Stan Freberg     1953 Prices US President Bread:  $0.16/loaf Dwight D. Eisenhower Milk:  $0.94/gal US Vice President Eggs:  $0.75/doz Richard M. Nixon Car:  $1,850 Academy Award Winners Gas:  $0.29/gal Best Picture: From Here To Eternity   Directed By Fred Zinnemann Best Actor: William Holden   in Stalag 17 Best Actress: Audrey Hepburn   in Roman Holiday House:  $17,400 Stamp:  $0.03/ea Avg Income:  $4,706/yr Min Wage:  $0.75/hr DOW Avg:    281 People born on July 11 1953 - Leon Spinks US, heavyweight boxing champ (1978, Olympic-gold-1976) 1899 - E B White, writer (Charlotte's Web, Elements of Style) On TV in 1953 What's My Line?    U.S. Steel Hour    Jackie Gleason Show    Omnibus    Make Room for Daddy    Our Miss Brooks    I Love Lucy    Kukla, Fran and Ollie    The Burns and Allen Show    Dragnet    Hot New Toys in 1953 Plastic Army Men    Top Books in 1953 The Mirror and the Lamp by Meyer Howard Abrams     The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow     Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark     Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin     copyright 1997-2013 dMarie Direct Inc