In 1951, Davis met Bob Weinstock, the owner of Prestige Records, and signed a contract with the label.

The most important Prestige recordings of this period ( Dig, Blue Haze, Bags ' Groove, Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants, and Walkin ') originated mostly from recording sessions in 1951 and 1954, after Davis ' recovery from his addiction.

* 1951 – Butch Davis, American football coach

Health and medical propaganda films include The Pace That Kills ( 1935, cocaine ), The Terrible Truth ( 1951, Sid Davis, anti-marijuana / heroine ), Case Study series by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation ( 1969, amphetamines, barbituates, heroine, LSD ), Hoxsey: Quacks Who Cure Cancer ( 1988 ) about the Hoxsey Therapy, The Beautiful Truth ( 2008 ) about the Gerson method for treating cancer, the anti-vaccine The Greater Good, Burzynski The Movie: Cancer Is Serious Business ( 2010 ), and Michael Moore's Sicko ( 2007 ) about the health care industry.

Protests started by Barbara Rose Johns in 1951 in Farmville against segregated schools led to the lawsuit Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County.

Among the film roles offered to Davis following her return to film making was Rose Sayer in The African Queen ( 1951 ).

The family traveled to England, where Davis and Merrill starred in a murder-mystery film, Another Man's Poison ( 1951 ).

Prince Edward County is the source of Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, a case incorporated into Brown v. Board of Education which ultimately resulted in the desegregation of public schools in the U. S. Among the fives cases decided under Brown, it was the only one initiated by students themselves, after they walked out in 1951 to protest overcrowding and poor conditions at their school under Jim Crow laws.

* Donald Kent Davis ( October 12, 1951 – March 13, 2010 ) was a farmer and auctioneer who served as mayor of Wellman from 2003 until his death from ALS at the age of fifty-eight.

Davis is the home of the 1979, 1986, 1990, and 1995 Oklahoma State Football Championship teams ( Runner-up in 1951, 2000, 2003, 2005 and 2010 ).

Other post war productions included a live performance of Richard II, directed by Royston Morley and starring Alan Wheatley as Richard and Clement McCallin as Bolingbroke ( 1950 ); a made-for-TV production of Henry V, directed by Royston Morley and Leonard Brett, and starring Clement McCallin as Henry and Marius Goring as the Chorus ( 1951 ); a Sunday Night Theatre made-for-TV production of The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Desmond Davis, and starring Stanley Baker as Petruchio and Margaret Johnston as Katherina ( 1952 ); a television adaptation of John Barton's Elizabethan Theatre Company production of Henry V, starring Colin George as Henry and Toby Robertson as the Chorus ( 1953 ); a live performance of Lionel Harris ' production of The Comedy of Errors starring David Pool as Antipholus of Ephesus and Paul Hansard as Antipholus of Syracuse ( 1954 ); and The Life of Henry the Fifth, the inaugural programme of BBC's new World Theatre series, directed by Peter Dews and starring John Neville as Henry and Bernard Hepton as the Chorus.

John Scofield ( born December 26, 1951, Dayton, Ohio ), often referred to as " Sco ", is an American jazz-rock guitarist and composer, who has played and collaborated with Miles Davis, Dave Liebman, Joe Henderson, Charles Mingus, Joey Defrancesco, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Pat Martino, Mavis Staples, Phil Lesh, Billy Cobham, Medeski Martin & Wood, George Duke, Jaco Pastorius, John Mayer, and many other well-known artists.

The fifth was Chicago millionaire William Deering Davis, who had been briefly married to the silent film star Louise Brooks, in the 1930s ; Plesch's marriage to Davis lasted from 1949 until their divorce in 1951.

* 1951 Davis Cup – 3 – 2 at White City Stadium ( grass ) Sydney, Australia

* Butch Davis ( born 1951 ), American football coach

His maternal grandfather, Henry Billington, played at Wimbledon between 1948 and 1951, and he represented Britain in the Davis Cup in 1948, 1950 and 1951.

During his period of occasional work with the Davis nonet between 1949 and 1951, Mulligan also regularly performed with and arranged for trombonist Kai Winding.

Walter Donaldson won in 1947, but it was Fred Davis who dominated the next few years, winning it three times in 1948, 1949 and 1951.

Her second husband was the American editor George Davis ( 1951 – 57 ).

Dr. Kenny Davis Anthony ( born January 8, 1951 ) is a Saint Lucian politician who has been Prime Minister of Saint Lucia since 2011 ; previously he was Prime Minister from 1997 to 2006.

When The Crows started out in 1951, practicing sidewalk harmonies, the original members were Daniel " Sonny " Norton ( lead ), William " Bill " Davis ( baritone ), Harold Major ( tenor ), Jerry Wittick ( tenor ), and Gerald Hamilton ( bass ).

After five straight championship wins in the AAFC and NFL, the Browns appeared poised to bring another trophy home in 1951.

Reeves, who first appeared as the character in the 1951 film Superman and the Mole Men, was older than subsequent Superman actors.

His findings and theories appeared in Client-Centered Therapy ( 1951 ) and Psychotherapy and Personality Change ( 1954 ).

Dennis the Menace may refer to separate UK and U. S. comic strip characters that both appeared in March 1951 in their respective readership areas, and are still published as of 2012.

* Dennis the Menace ( UK comics ), the original title of a British comic strip which first appeared in " The Beano ", dated March 17, 1951 ; now published as Dennis and Gnasher

Leslie Claire Margaret Caron (; born 1 July 1931 ) is a French film actress and dancer, who appeared in 45 films between 1951 and 2003.

His debut was in You're in the Navy Now ( 1951 ), and in 1952 he appeared in several films, including Don Siegel's Duel at Silver Creek, Hangman's Knot, and the war drama Eight Iron Men.

Van Cleef appeared six times between 1951 and 1955 as Burt Tanner on the children's western The Adventures of Kit Carson, starring Bill Williams.

He co-founded The Goon Show radio show with Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, but appeared in only the first 38 shows on the BBC Light Programme from 1951 to 1953.

It first appeared in the USA in The Avon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader published by Avon Periodicals, Inc. in 1951.

In 1950 he started exchanging letters with Jerzy Giedroyc and from 1951 he started having works published in the Parisian journal Culture, where, in 1953, fragments of Dziennik ( Diaries ) appeared.

He has been married since 1951 to Connie ( Constance M. Wake ), an actress who appeared in early 1960s television dramas such as Maigret.

First appeared as "… In This Sign " in Imagination, April 1951.

She appeared in several high-profile films from the 1950s to 1970s, including The Hucksters ( 1947 ), Show Boat ( 1951 ), The Snows of Kilimanjaro ( 1952 ), The Barefoot Contessa ( 1954 ), Bhowani Junction ( 1956 ), On the Beach ( 1959 ), Seven Days in May ( 1964 ), The Night of the Iguana ( 1964 ), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean ( 1972 ), Earthquake ( 1974 ), and The Cassandra Crossing ( 1976 ).

Niven later appeared in The Elusive Pimpernel ( 1950 ) The Toast of New Orleans ( 1950 ), Happy Go Lovely ( 1951 ), Happy Ever After ( 1954 ) and Carrington V. C.

The first, Round the Rugged Rocks, was a novel that appeared in 1951 and was forgotten almost at once.

He also appeared in other films such as the Ealing comedy The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ) and the 1981 PBS production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and he had a small role in the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ( 1968 ) which was itself based on a children's book by Bond author Ian Fleming.

Laughton made his first color film in Paris as Inspector Maigret in The Man on the Eiffel Tower ( 1949 ) and, wrote the Monthly Film Bulletin, " appeared to overact " alongside Boris Karloff as a mad French nobleman in a version of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Door in 1951.

He only appeared in two games of the 1951 World Series.

In the United States, the 1951 copyright was obtained by Doubleday & Company, Inc. A 1951 condensed version of the book also appeared in Colliers Magazine.

* In the Danish movie " Mød mig på Cassiopeia " ( Meet me on Cassiopeia ) from 1951, Polyhymnia appeared before the main character, and inspired him to finish his work.

" The symbols currently associated with the " forty feet down ..." translation and seen in many books first appeared in True Tales of Buried Treasure, written by explorer and historian Edward Rowe Snow in 1951.

Grudging respect began to emanate from the international press: towards the end of 1951 the opinion appeared in Germany's recently launched Auto Motor und Sport magazine that, despite its " ugliness and primitiveness " (" Häßlichkeit und Primitivität "), the 2CV was a " highly interesting " (" hochinteressantes ") car.