Helen MacInnes: Neither Five Nor Three
Reading spy thriller author Helen MacInnes' cold-war novel Neither Five Nor Three (1951) almost seventy years after it was first released, is likely to arouse feelings of déjà vu on…
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Done in January 1951
Baby Boomer Trivia From January 1951: Tennessee Waltz #1 Hit, Storm Warning Premieres, Extinct Cahow Discovered American singer Patti Page's hit single Tennessee Waltz went to #1 for the first…
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Done in December 1951
Baby Boomer Trivia From December 1951: Golden Gate Bridge Closes; Joe DiMaggio Retires; Dragnet TV Premiere Golden Gate Bridge Closed By Wind Gusts San Francisco seniors may remember when wind gusts…
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Done in November 1951
Baby Boomer Trivia From November 1951: MLB MVP Awards, First Direct LD Dialing, National Ballet of Canada Debut (Yogi Berra 1953 Bowman Gum Baseball Card Photo) Major League Baseball's 1951 MVP Awards were…
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Done in October 1951
Baby Boomer Trivia From October 1951: I Love Lucy, Rocky Marciano TKO's Louis, Winston Churchill is PM Again The I Love Lucy sitcom debuted on CBS on October 15, 1951 in glorious black…
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Done in September 1951
Baby Boomer Trivia From January 1951: Daytime Soaps Debut; Woman Swims Channel; Zapotek Sets Record In September 1951 the long-running daytime soap operas Search For Tomorrow and Love of Life…
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Done in August 1951
Boomer Trivia From August 1951: William Randolph Hearst Dies, An American in Paris Premieres Starring Gene Kelly & Leslie Caron, Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Championship Leslie Caron Film Debut in…
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Done in July 1951
Baby Boomer Trivia From January 1951: Korean War Peace Talks, Citation Wins $1M, Catcher in the Rye As a three year old racehorse, Citation won 19 of 20 races in…
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Done in June 1951
Baby Boomer Trivia From June 1951: UNIVAC I, Ben Hogan Wins, Spies Burgess & Maclean Defect to USSR Above, CBS News' Walter Cronkite is shown the UNIVAC I computer by…
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Done in May 1951
Baby Boomer Trivia From May 1951: Aracaro on Bold Wins Preakness, Restaurant Segregation Ruled Illegal, Operation Greenhouse On May 19, 1951, jockey Eddie Arcaro rode 3-year-old colt Bold to victory…
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