SPORTS
World Series
NY Yankees d. Brooklyn Dodgers (4-2)
NBA Championship
Minneapolis Lakers d. New York (4-1)
Stanley Cup
Montreal d. Boston (4-1)
Wimbledon Women: Maureen Connolly d. D. Hart (8-6 7-5) Men: Vic Seixas d. K. Nielsen (9-7 6-3 6-4)
Kentucky Derby Champion
Dark Star
NCAA Basketball Championship
Indiana d. Kansas (69-68)
NCAA Football Champions
Maryland (10-1-0)
ENTERTAINMENT
Events
- The first issue of TV Guide magazine hits the newsstands
on April 3 in 10 cities with a circulation of 1,560,000.
- To counteract the threat of television, Hollywood thinks big and
develops wide-screen processes such as
CinemaScope,
first seen in The Robe.
-
Loretta Young abandons
Hollywood for her stylish debut on the small screen.
-
Lucille Ball gives birth
to Desi Arnaz, Jr. on same day the fictional Little Ricky is born
on I Love Lucy.
- Playboy
magazine hits newsstands. A nude
Marilyn
Monroe graces the cover.
Movies
- The Robe, From Here to Eternity, Shane, Roman Holiday
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes Fiction:The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway Drama:Picnic, William Inge Academy Award, Best Picture:The Greatest Show on Earth,
Cecil B. DeMille, producer (Paramount)
Nobel Prize for Literature: Sir Winston
Churchill (UK)
Miss America: Neva Jane Langley (GA)
