Important Events of 1953
Joseph Stalin dies
The Korean War ends
Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated President of the United States
The cost of a 1st class stamp is $.03
The first issue of TV Guide magazine hits the newsstand
Playboy Magazine hits the newsstands. A nude Marilyn Monroe graces the cover
The Academy Awards are televised for the first time.
The winners are:
Best Picture “From Here to Eternity”
Best Actor William Holden for “Stalag 17”
Best Actress Audrey Hepburn for “Roman Holiday”
Other popular movies that year are “Peter Pan”, “House of Wax” and “Gentleman Prefer Blondes”
Emmy awards go to “I Love Lucy” for situational comedy
Best new show is “Make Room for Daddy”
Other popular TV shows are “Dragnet”, “The Milton Berle Show”, Arthur Godfrey & Friends” “The Jackie Gleason show” and the “Colgate Comedy Hour”.
B.F Skinner began his operant conditioning experiment on a newborn in Southern California. The child was kept isolated day & night in a stifling garage. As he grew, if he ventured out into the outside world for even a moment, a jolt of electrical current coursed through his pale, pasty body. His only contact with the outside world was through a box on a table in the musty garage. He would go on to learn to press small keys on a device wired to other human beings in far away places. They would respond back with a similar pressing of the keys. This became his sole source of communication & information with the world at large.
Fifty three years later, he has been so affected by this behavior modification, that he remains a recluse in his garage day & night, regardless of the extreme conditions in which he lives. Those far & wide will tap on their keys today to wish him the happiest of birthdays and for just a moment…a slight smile will cross his lips.
The Korean War ends
Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated President of the United States
The cost of a 1st class stamp is $.03
The first issue of TV Guide magazine hits the newsstand
Playboy Magazine hits the newsstands. A nude Marilyn Monroe graces the cover
The Academy Awards are televised for the first time.
The winners are:
Best Picture “From Here to Eternity”
Best Actor William Holden for “Stalag 17”
Best Actress Audrey Hepburn for “Roman Holiday”
Other popular movies that year are “Peter Pan”, “House of Wax” and “Gentleman Prefer Blondes”
Emmy awards go to “I Love Lucy” for situational comedy
Best new show is “Make Room for Daddy”
Other popular TV shows are “Dragnet”, “The Milton Berle Show”, Arthur Godfrey & Friends” “The Jackie Gleason show” and the “Colgate Comedy Hour”.
B.F Skinner began his operant conditioning experiment on a newborn in Southern California. The child was kept isolated day & night in a stifling garage. As he grew, if he ventured out into the outside world for even a moment, a jolt of electrical current coursed through his pale, pasty body. His only contact with the outside world was through a box on a table in the musty garage. He would go on to learn to press small keys on a device wired to other human beings in far away places. They would respond back with a similar pressing of the keys. This became his sole source of communication & information with the world at large.
Fifty three years later, he has been so affected by this behavior modification, that he remains a recluse in his garage day & night, regardless of the extreme conditions in which he lives. Those far & wide will tap on their keys today to wish him the happiest of birthdays and for just a moment…a slight smile will cross his lips.
posted by Yakimaniac at 12:34 AM
2 Comments:
I just read all of your wonderful stuff. Sadly, if not tragically, it's the nicest thing anybody has ever done for me on this Day of Days. It's a real tribute to a life, that although sad and worthless, is also quite pathetic. Of course, as a Jehovah's Witness, I don't celebrate birthdays.
Then again, I was fired yesterday for not handing out my quota of "Watch Tower" pamphlets on the my usual corner of Harbor and Las Palmas. In a weak momment, I decided to throw all the darn things in a nearby dumpster and sing "All along the watchtower" instead. This led to absolutly no conversions but I did have somebody toss a quarter into my empty Margeritta glass. So, maybe a little 20-pack of Raineer Beer action is in order!
Thanks again Yak People!
I can't believe you got no comments on this 1953 recap! Obviously, none of your readers have read David Halberhem's fabulous book called "The 1950's"!
Our entire country was built by these people he chronicles. After you read this book, you are left thinking nothing really happened here after that old decade.
I think I can speak honestly about this decade in American history. Afterall, I was only born in 1953. I wasn't really a noted opinion maker until 1961.
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