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Tuesday, May 7, 1957
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The Headlines
O'Neill Play, Kennan Book Awarded Pulitzer Prizes; Kennedy, Wilbur Get Awards PULITZER AWARDS ARE ANNOUNCED Air Crash Story Cited 761 Entries for Awards
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
Funny Face
The must-have
Frisbee
You Share a Birthday With
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840)
- David Hume (1711)
- Johannes Brahms (1833)
- Josip Broz Tito (1892)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
blastflickkiboshshades
Greaser
cruisin'daddy-odibsknuckle sandwichpad
Beatnik
cooldigfar outhipsquare
Tech Check
Sputnik Satellite, Fortran Programming Language & Bubble Wrap.
Cost of Living (1950)
Loaf of Bread
$0.14
Gallon of Gas
$0.27
Average Home
$7,354
New Car
$1,510
Time Elapsed
25,231 days ago
(69 years, 46 days)