Radio Hits of 1960
 1960 SportsWorld Series Champions: Pittsburgh Pirates NFL Champions: Philadelphia Eagles AFL Champions: Houston Oilers NBA Champions: Boston Celtics Stanley Cup Champs: Montreal Canadiens U.S. Open Golf: Arnold Palmer U.S. Tennis: (Men/Ladies): Neale Fraser/Darlene R. Hard Wimbledon (Men/Women): Neale Fraser/Maria Bueno NCAA Football Champions: Minnesota & Mississippi NCAA Basketball Champions: Ohio State Kentucky Derby: Venetian Way Fashion Icons:Annette Funicello, Jayne Mansfield, Brigitte Bardot, Kim Novak, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe, Doris Day. Other FactsChubby Checker's 'The Twist' started a huge dance craze.JFK was elected President of the United States. There are three dots on every Domino's Pizza box because when founder Tom Monaghan started his chain, he planned on adding a dot with each new store. Looking back, 8,000+ stores later, it was a good idea to stop with the 3 dots, forming a simple domino. The term paparazzi originated with Italian director Federico Fellini's La dolce vita. One of the minor characters in the film was a photographer named Paparazzo. Fellini took Paparazzo's name from the Italian word for a noisy mosquito. Chuck Berry got in some legal trouble when he took a 14-year-old girl from Arizona to Missouri to work at his Bandstand club. Her work didn't require clothes, apparently. USAF Captain Joseph Kittinger set three records on August 16th - highest parachute jump (102,800 feet), the longest parachute free fall (4 minutes 36 seconds), and the first person to exceed the speed of sound without an aircraft or space vehicle (714 mph during free fall). The mysterious BLACK KNIGHT Satellite was seen by both Russian and American Air Defense unites. At 15 tons, was bigger than any country could have sent at that time. It disappeared after about three weeks. "Smile! You're on Candid Camera!" - The New TV Show Candid Camera. Time Magazine's Man Of The Year: United State's Scientists, Represented by George Beadle, Charles Draper, John Enders, Donald A. Glaser, Joshua Lederberg, Willard Libby, Linus Pauling, Edward Purcell, Isidor Rabi, Emilio Segrè, William Shockley, Edward Teller, Charles Townes, James Van Allen, and Robert Woodward Miss America: Lynda Mead (Natchez, MS) Miss USA: Linda Bement (Utah) Most Popular Christmas Gifts: Green Eggs and Ham, by Dr. Seuss, Game of Life*, Etch-A-Sketch, Barbie, Chatty Cathie, Mattel's Lie Detector Game, Mr. Machine, Play-Doh Fun Factory. What Was On TV:Gunsmoke (CBS), Wagon Train (NBC), Have Gun Will Travel (CBS), The Andy Griffith Show (CBS), The Real McCoys (ABC), Rawhide (CBS), Candid Camera (CBS), The Untouchables (ABC), The Jack Benny Show (CBS), Dennis The Menace (CBS). |
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