Popular Movies
1. Thunderball
2. Doctor Zhivago
3. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
4. That Darn Cat
5. The Russians Are Coming,
6. Lt. Robin Crusoe, USN
7. The Silencers
8. Torn Curtain
9. Our Man Flint
10. A Patch of Blue
Grammy Awards
Record of the Year: "Strangers in the Night" ... Frank
Sinatra
Academy Awards
Best Picture: "A Man for All Seasons"
Best Director: Fred Zinnemann ... "A Man for All Seasons"
Best Actor: Paul Scofield ... "A Man for All Seasons"
Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor ... "Who's Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?"
Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
MULLIKEN, ROBERT S., U.S.A., University of Chicago, Chicago, IL,
b. 1896, d.
1986:
"for his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the
electronic
structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method"
Literature
The prize was divided equally between:
AGNON, SHMUEL YOSEF, Israel, b. 1888, d. 1970:
"for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs
from the life
of the Jewish people"; and
SACHS, NELLY, Sweden, b. 1891 (in Germany), d. 1970:
"for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which
interprets Israel's
destiny with touching strength"
Peace
The prize money was allocated to the Main Fund (1/3) and to the
Special Fund (2/3) of this prize section.
Physiology or Medicine
The prize was divided equally between:
ROUS, PEYTON, U.S.A., Rockefeller University, New York, NY, b.
1879, d.
1970:
"for his discovery of tumor-inducing viruses"; and
HUGGINS, CHARLES BRENTON, U.S.A., Ben May Laboratory for Cancer
Research,
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, b. 1901, d. 1997:
"for his discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic
cancer"
Physics
KASTLER, ALFRED, France, Ecole Normale Superieure, Universite de
Paris, b.
1902, d. 1984:
"for the discovery and development of optical methods for
studying hertzian
resonances in atoms"
Pulitzer Prizes
Drama:Frank D. Gilory..."The
Subject Was Roses"
Fiction:Katherine Anne Porter ... "Collected Stories"
"History:Perry Miller ... "Life of the Mind in America"
International Reporting:Peter Arnett ... "Associated Press"
National Reporting: Haynes Johnson ... "Washington (DC)
Evening Star"
Public Service: "Boston Globe"
Most Popular Books
Fiction
1."Valley of the Dolls" ... Jacqueline Susann. Bernard Geis
2."The Adventurers" ... Harold Robbins. Trident Press
3."The Secret of Santa Vittoria" ... Robert Crichton. Simon
& Schuster
4."Capable of Honor" ... Allen Drury. Doubleday
5."The Double Image" ... Helen MacInnes. Harcourt, Brace &
World
6."The Fixer" ... Bernard Malamud. Farrar, Straus & Giroux
7."Tell No Man" ... Adela Rogers St. Johns. Doubleday
8."Tai-Pan" ... James Clavell. Atheneum Publishers
9."The Embezzler" ... Louis Auchincloss. Houghton Mifflin
10."All in the Family" ... Edwin O'Connor. Atlantic-Little,
Brown
Nonfiction
1."How to Avoid Probate" ... Norman F. Dacey. Crown
2."Human Sexual Response" ... William Howard Masters and
Virginia Eshelman Johnson. Little, Brown
3."In Cold Blood" ... Truman Capote. Random House
4."Games People Play" ... Eric Berne, M.D. Grove Press
5."A Thousand Days" ... Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Houghton
Mifflin
6."Everything But Money" ... Sam Levenson. Simon & Schuster
7."The Random House Dictionary of the English Language" ...
Random
House
8."Rush to Judgment" ... Mark Lane. Holt, Rinehart & Winston
9."The Last Battle" ... Cornelius Ryan. Simon & Schuster
10."Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints" ... Phyllis Diller.
Most Popular Television Shows
1. Bonanza (NBC)
2. The Red Skelton Hour (CBS)
3. The Andy Griffith Show (CBS)
4. The Lucy Show (CBS)
5. The Jackie Gleason Show (CBS)
6. Green Acres (CBS)
7. Daktari (CBS)
8. Bewitched (ABC)
9. The Beverly Hillbillies (CBS)
10. Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (CBS)
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