Bill Black, playing with Elvis Presley, adopted the Fender Precision Bass around 1957.

* 1957 – Bill Cartwright, American basketball player

* 1957 – Bill Engvall, American comedian and actor

* 1957 – Bill Cowher, American football coach

In 1957, rookie center Bill Russell joined the Boston Celtics, who already featured guard Bob Cousy and coach Red Auerbach, and went on to lead the club to eleven NBA titles in thirteen seasons.

* 1957 – Bill Fagerbakke, American actor

In one strip in the Beano Book from 1957, his dad's name is revealed to be Bill, and he has occasionally shown to have been a dodger in his youth and on occasion asks Roger for dodging help.

Also in 1957, Chevrolet sold enough of their new fuel injected engines to the public in order to make them available for racing ( and Ford began selling superchargers as an option ), but Bill France immediately banned fuel injection and superchargers from NASCAR before they could race.

Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.

The original city logo was created by Bill Botts Sr. in 1957. It consisted of a double-circular seal, with the inner circle containing an adobe arch featuring the Rancho Azusa de Duarte " d " brand ( inside the arch is the original date of the Rancho's establishment, 1841 ) while the outer circle features the year of Duarte's incorporation ( 1957 ).

* Bill Weber ( born 1957 ), NBC sports broadcaster.

Most of the coaches that coached the boys and girls teams on that floor were in attendance, including Bill Follis, who had also coached the first game held on the Stage in 1957.

* Bill Willoughby ( born 1957 ), former NBA Player who, along with Darryl Dawkins, were the first high school players drafted by the National Basketball Association after they graduated in 1975.

* Bill Bolling-( 1957 -) current Lieutenant Governor of Virginia

* Tim Westwood ( born 1957 ), British hip hop DJ, son of Bishop Bill

Some notable early roles include Parsons in 1984 ( 1956 ), his second Orwell film, and minor roles opposite Alec Guinness in Barnacle Bill ( 1957 ) and Dirk Bogarde in The Wind Cannot Read ( 1958 ).

Remick married producer Bill Colleran in 1957.

Although originally a classical pianist, Barry took a correspondence course ( with jazz composer Bill Russo ) and working as an arranger for the Jack Parnell and Ted Heath's Orchestra, he formed his own band in 1957, The John Barry Seven, with whom he had some hit records on the EMI Columbia label, including " Hit and Miss ", the theme tune he composed for the BBC's Juke Box Jury programme, a cover of the Ventures ' " Walk Don't Run ", and a cover of the theme for the United Artists Western The Magnificent Seven.

McKimson would also pair the Devil with Daffy Duck in Ducking the Devil ( August 17, 1957 ) before pitting him once again against Bugs in Bill of Hare ( June 9, 1962 ) and Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare ( March 28, 1964 ).

The Education Bill was introduced in the Kerala assembly by Prof. Joseph Mundasseri, the then education minister for the first elected ( 1957 ) Communist Party of India government.

The government which came to power in 1957 introduced the Land Reforms Bill in the Legislative Assembly.

In 1957, a serviceman named Bill Runyan painted heroic murals depicting Spanish settlement of the area on selected interior walls of The Hacienda.

When a backers ' audition failed to raise any money for West Side Story late in the spring of 1957, only two months before the show was to begin rehearsals, producer Cheryl Crawford pulled out of the project.

* Maud Crawford, missing attorney from Camden, Arkansas, who disappeared in 1957, was reared in Warren and graduated in 1911 from Warren High School.

On March 2, 1957, the Camden attorney Maud Robinson Crawford ( born 1891 ) disappeared from the house that she shared with her husband, Clyde Falwell Crawford ( 1894 – 1969 ).

Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford ( 28 October 1886 – 28 November 1957 ) was an English archaeologist and a pioneer in the use of aerial photographs for deepening archaeological understanding of the landscape.

One of McClellan's law partners prior to his Senate service, Maud Crawford, went missing in March 1957 in Camden, Arkansas.

Crawford was finally elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1957.

The Crawford W. Long Museum in downtown Jefferson, Georgia has been in operation since 1957.

* The Story of Esther Costello ( 1957 ) ( also known as The Golden Virgin ), directed by David Miller, starring Joan Crawford, Rossano Brazzi, Heather Sears, Lee Patterson.

* Patrick Hennessy's Portrait of Elizabeth Bowen at Bowen's Court ( 1957 ), Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland

After a performance on June 13, 1957 at the Wide Awake Ballroom in Newark, New Jersey, Burke became convinced that his manager Kae Williams was cheating him out of most of his performance fees.

* Fiona Jones ( 1957 – 2007 )-Labour politician, MP for Newark.

The April 1957 Official Airline Guide showed 144 weekday passenger fixed-wing departures from Newark: 40 Eastern, 19 Capital, 16 American, 14 United, 14 Mohawk, 13 Allegheny, 11 TWA, 8 National, 5 Delta and 4 Braniff.

Richard Florida ( born 1957 in Newark, New Jersey ) is an American urban studies theorist.

In 1957, WOR ended its relationship with Mutual and became an independent station and Mutual's New York outlet became WAAT in Newark for a brief period, but WOR continued to carry Mutual's " Top of the News " with Fulton Lewis for 15 minutes each evening Monday to Friday at 7: 00 p. m. for several more years after it had briefly shifted to WMGM ( WHN ) where the program, from WOL Mutual in Washington, had debuted in New York City in the 1930s.

WPAT-FM signed on in 1957 from its studios in Newark, New Jersey.

On May 25, 1957, McHugh was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Newark at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart.

The Baltimore News Post reported in 1957 that had Singer's arguments about the need for satellites been heeded, the U. S. could have beaten Russia by launching the first earth satellite.

* Cask of Jerepigo ( 1957 ) Central News Agency

The Paramount newsreel series Paramount News ran from 1927 to 1957.

The 1957 liquidation of the American News Company, then the primary distributor of pulp magazines, has sometimes been taken as marking the end of the " pulp era "; by that date, many of the famous pulps of the previous generation, including Black Mask, The Shadow, Doc Savage, and Weird Tales, were defunct.

Typical was John Chapman's review in the New York Daily News on September 27, 1957, headed: " West Side Story a Splendid and Super-Modern Musical Drama ".

UPI reporters and photographers have won ten Pulitzer Prizes: Russell Jones ( International Reporting, 1957 ), Andrew Lopez ( News Photography, 1960 ), Yasushi Nagao ( News Photography, 1961 ), Merriman Smith ( National Reporting, 1964 ), Kyoichi Sawada ( News Photography, 1966 ), Toshio Sakai ( Feature Photography, 1968 ), Lucinda Franks and Thomas Powers ( National Reporting, 1971 ), and David Hume Kennerly ( Feature Photography, 1972 ).

* Xi ' an Evening News ( Xi ' an Wanbao ) ( 西安晚报 ), with a history of 50 years ( 1957 – 2007 ), is one of the oldest newspapers.

In 1969, under pressure after the Shapp controversy, Annenberg sold The Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News, which he bought in 1957, to Knight Newspapers for US $ 55 million.

In 1957, American News Company, by far the largest magazine distributor, was liquidated.

In the U. S., newsreel series included The March of Time ( 1935 – 1951 ), Pathé News ( 1910 – 1956 ), Paramount News ( 1927 – 1957 ), Fox Movietone News ( 1928 – 1963 ), Hearst Metrotone News ( 1914 – 1967 ), and Universal Newsreel ( 1929 – 1967 ).

* Paramount News newsreel series produced by Paramount Pictures from 1927 to 1957

For example, the publication News Front — started in 1957 as a weekly tool for the Communist Party to instruct journalists on what to write — no longer was limited to that function when it reappeared after the Cultural Revolution.

1957 ) Emmy Award-winning news producer, former President of NBC News and Executive Producer of the PBS NewsHour

* World News Roundup ( Eric Sevareid, Robert Trout ) ( 1957 – 58 )

* BBC News of Bardsey Island, ringed 1957

The Miami News vacated the building in 1957 to relocate to a new facility on the Miami River.

* 1957: Buford Boone of Tuscaloosa News, " for his fearless and reasoned editorials in a community inflamed by a segregation issue, an outstanding example of his work being the editorial entitled, ' What a Price for Peace ,' published on February 7, 1956.

* 1957: Chicago Daily News, " for determined and courageous public service in exposing a $ 2, 500, 000 fraud centering in the office of the State Auditor of Illinois, resulting in the indictment and conviction of the State Auditor and others.

In 1957, he became the head coach at Newport News High School, where he compiled a 57-game winning streak.