Fans of the strip ranged from novelist John Steinbeck, who called Capp " possibly the best writer in the world today " in 1953, and even earnestly recommended him for the Nobel Prize in literature — to media critic and theorist Marshall McLuhan, who considered Capp " the only robust satirical force in American life.

# Curtiss R5C Commando — 1953

A hydrogen bomb — which produced nuclear fusion instead of nuclear fission — was first tested by the United States in November 1952 and the Soviet Union in August 1953.

*" The Black Stranger " — Published in Fantasy Magazine, Feb. 1953.

*" The Frost Giant's Daughter " — Published in The Coming of Conan, 1953.

* A Slight Case of Murder ( 1938 ) with Edward G. Robinson — remade in 1953 as Stop, You're Killing Me with Broderick Crawford and Claire Trevor

* Money from Home ( 1953 ) — Martin and Lewis

In 1953, he mortgaged his furniture, generating a bank loan of $ 600, and raised $ 8, 000 from 45 investors — including $ 1, 000 from his mother (" Not because she believed in the venture ," he told E!

* 1953 BC Bobcat — Prototype

Columbium ( symbol Cb ) was the name originally given to this element by Hatchett, and this name remained in use in American journals — the last paper published by American Chemical Society with columbium in its title dates from 1953 — while niobium was used in Europe.

In 1953, output rose above 100, 000 units for the first time since the war, and in 1954, when the sprawling plant by the Main River was considered completely rebuilt, 24, 270 were employed at Adam Opel AG and 167, 650 vehicles were built — an all-time high.

* Topper ( 1926, copyright renewed 1953 — also known as The Jovial Ghosts ).

In 1953 Time stated that he owned — and used — both an Ouija board and a crystal ball.

Among his first reforms was the establishment of the National Assembly — the Tshogdu — in 1953.

* 1953: Best Film from any Source — A Streetcar Named Desire

* 1953: Best Film from any Source — Viva Zapata!

* 1953: Golden Bear — Man on a Tightrope

In summer 1953, Silver City leased a Breguet Br. 763 to participate in the second Little Berlin Airlift on the Hamburg ( Fuhlsbüttel ) — Berlin ( Tempelhof ) route.

From 1932 to 1953, it was the administrative center of the Dalstroy organization — a vast and brutal forced-labor gold-mining operation and corrective labor camp system.

* 1953 — Gerard de Vaucouleurs discovers that the galaxies within approximately 200 million light years of the Virgo cluster are confined to a giant supercluster disk,

* Leifer, Fred, The Li ' l Abner Official Square Dance Handbook ( 1953 ) A. S. Barnes

" S. Fred Singer Papers, 1953 – 1989 ( bulk 1960 – 1980 )", accessed May 15, 2010.

* 1953 – Fred Hembeck, American cartoonist

* 1890 – Fred M. Vinson, 13th Chief Justice of the United States ( d. 1953 )

She also starred in the successful musicals Lili ( 1953 ), with Mel Ferrer ; Daddy Long Legs ( 1955 ), with Fred Astaire, and Gigi ( 1958 ) with Louis Jourdan and Maurice Chevalier.

From Here to Eternity is a 1953 drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and based on the novel of the same name by James Jones.

Other films include The Hucksters ( 1947 ) with Clark Gable, Show Boat ( 1951 ), The Snows of Kilimanjaro ( 1952 ) with Gregory Peck, Lone Star ( 1952 ) with Clark Gable, Mogambo ( 1953 ) with Clark Gable and Grace Kelly, 1954's The Barefoot Contessa with Humphrey Bogart ( which some consider to be Gardner's " signature film " since it mirrored her real life custom of going barefoot ), Bhowani Junction ( 1956 ), The Sun Also Rises with Tyrone Power and Errol Flynn ( in which she played party-girl Brett Ashley ) ( 1957 ), and the film version of Nevil Shute's best-selling On the Beach with Peck and Fred Astaire.

Pickens appeared in dozens of films, including Old Oklahoma Plains ( 1952 ), Down Laredo Way ( 1953 ), One-Eyed Jacks ( 1961 ) with Marlon Brando, Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 ), Major Dundee ( 1965 ) with Charlton Heston, the remake of Stagecoach ( 1966 ; Pickens played the driver, portrayed in the 1939 film by Andy Devine ), Never a Dull Moment ( 1968 ), The Cowboys ( 1972 ) with John Wayne, Ginger in the Morning ( 1974 ) with Fred Ward, Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), Poor Pretty Eddy ( 1975 ), Rancho Deluxe ( 1975 ), The Getaway with Steve McQueen, Tom Horn ( 1980 ), also with McQueen, An Eye for an Eye ( 1966 ) and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ( 1973 ) in a small but memorable role.

But before it was announced, Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson died suddenly in September 1953 and Eisenhower picked Warren to replace him as Chief Justice of the United States.

Larry Keating, actually, was not in the original cast, with his character of Harry Morton first being portayed by Fred Clark until 1953.

* Fred L. Peterson, mayor of Portland, Oregon from 1953 – 1956

In January 1953, a committee composed of John LaRotonda, Ben Schultz, Dom Trovarelli and Fred Mills organized the Lima Symphony Orchestra.

* 1953: Luke Holtgeerts, Gray Beck, Richard Thompson, Albert Losvar, Fred Allen, Henry Brown

* The Band Wagon, a 1953 MGM movie musical starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse

1953: Through the course of a Colorado autumn and winter, Mary Spencer ( Simmons ) and Fred Wilson ( Forsythe ) lead an idyllic existence.

* Fred R. Eggan ( 1953 )

* Leifer, Fred, The Li ' l Abner Official Square Dance Handbook ( 1953 ) A. S. Barnes

* Fred Applegate ( actor ) ( born 1953 ), American actor, singer and dancer

* Fred Howard ... Andrews / ... ( 6 episodes, 1951 – 1953 )

* Fred Mitchell ( Bahamas ) ( born 1953 ), foreign minister of the Bahamas

Savoy's artistic directors have included Buck Ram, Teddy Reig, Ralph Bass ( 1948 ‒ 1952 ), Fred Mendelsohn ( 1953 ), and Ozzie Cadena ( 1954 ‒ 1962 ) ( father of punk rock musician, Dez Cadena ).

The Koch Family Foundations began in 1953 with the establishment of the Fred C. and Mary R. Koch Foundation.

* Fred C. and Mary R. Koch Foundation ( 1953 )

* Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack 1953 – Cricketer of the Year: Fred Trueman