Meanwhile, in a November 15, 1953 game against the 49ers, Otto Graham took an elbow from linebacker Art Michalik that put a gash on his face requiring 15 stitches.

One of his most famous films noir is the police drama The Big Heat ( 1953 ), noted for its uncompromising brutality, especially for a scene in which Lee Marvin throws scalding coffee on Gloria Grahame's face.

Later on, in 1953 and 1958, the happy face was used in promotional campaigns for motion pictures Lili and Gigi, respectively. First use of happy face in a campaign for the film Lili in 1953.

Whitman was a supporting actor in When Worlds Collide ( 1951 ), All American ( 1953 ), Brigadoon ( 1954 ), Silver Lode ( 1954 ), Ten North Frederick ( 1958 ), The Decks Ran Red ( 1958 ) starring Dorothy Dandridge, on whose face Whitman planted Hollywood's first interrracial kiss, These Thousand Hills ( 1959 ), and The Sound and the Fury ( 1959 ).

* 1953 Le vieux Tibet face à la Chine nouvelle

An early instance of using text characters to represent a sideways smiling ( and frowning ) face occurred in an advertisement for Lili in the New York Herald Tribune, March 10, 1953, pg.

* 1953 – 1958 – Five expeditions attempt the north face, or " Pear Buttress ", route.

Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Martin-Leake, VC and Bar ( 4 April 1874 – 22 June 1953 ) was an English double recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

From 1953 to 1960, he anchored ABC news broadcasts and was the face of the network's news division, even though What's My Line?

Other memorable roles included the scheming Irene Nieves in Sudden Fear ( 1952 ), the femme fatale Vicki Buckley in Human Desire ( 1953 ), and mob moll Debby Marsh in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat ( 1953 ) in which, in a horrifying off-screen scene, she is scarred by hot coffee thrown in her face by Lee Marvin's character.

In the Czechoslovakia of Novotný, people continued to face strict government regulations in the arts and media, although they had loosened dramatically since Stalin's death in 1953 and the subsequent De-Stalinisation programmes of 1956.

On December 1, 1953, a Douglas C-47 Dakota, serial number 45-1124, crashed at the level on the eastern face of the mountain.

When the ' 34s wore out, they were replaced with a new, more modern-looking Series 1953 ( 1935 for the $ 1 silvers ; see below ), with the same face changes as the Series 1950 Federal Reserve Notes had experienced.

Ian John McKay VC ( 7 May 1953 – 12 June 1982 ) was a posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Vice Admiral Gordon Campbell VC, DSO & Two Bars ( 6 January 1886 – 3 July 1953 ) was an English naval officer, later a writer and politician, who was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Douglas Walter Belcher VC ( 15 July 1889 – 3 June 1953 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

From 1953, in the face of increased repression by the colonial power, the UPC followed the urging of Dr. Félix-Roland Moumié to move into radical political action.

Brigadier General Wallace Duffield Wright VC, CB, CMG, DSO ( 20 September 1875 – 25 March 1953 ) was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

John David Francis Shaul VC ( 11 September 1873 – 14 September 1953 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Alfred Joseph Richards VC ( 21 June 1879 – 21 May 1953 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

* 1887 – John van Melle, South African writer ( d. 1953 )

* 1953 – Ivan Toms, South African physician

John van Melle ( 11 February 1887 – 8 November 1953 ) was the pen name of a Dutch-born South African author.

* 1989 – Steven De Groote, South African pianist ( b. 1953 )

* 1953 – John van Melle, South African author ( b. 1887 )

In 1953, Southern Rhodesia merged with the two other British Central African states to form the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland-a loose association that placed defence and economic direction under a central government but left many domestic affairs under the control of its constituent territories.

Sporadic labor unrest and dissatisfaction continued well into the 20th century, culminating in an outbreak of riots in 1953 in which several hundred African laborers were killed in a clash with their Portuguese rulers.

* 1953 – Jani Allan, South African journalist

* February 5 – Neil Aggett, South African labor leader ( suicide ) ( b. 1953 )

In 1953 he went to study to the Ecole des enfants de troupes Général Leclerc in Brazzaville and in 1957 he was sent to Bouar, Oubangui-Chari ( now the Central African Republic.

In Desert Rats ( 1953 ), Burton plays a young English captain in the North African campaign during World War II who takes charge of a hopelessly out-numbered Australian unit against the indomitable Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ( James Mason ).

This positive reception for Brown, together with the appointment of African American Dr. David Jones to the school board in 1953, convinced numerous white and black citizens that Greensboro was heading in a forward direction and would likely emerge as a leader in school integration.

* Walter G. Alexander ( 1880 – 1953 ), first African American member of the New Jersey Legislature.

* Willie Thrower – Michigan State University ; Chicago Bears ( 1953 – 54 ), first African American QB to be in NFL

The party went underground and, in 1953 relaunched itself as the South African Communist Party-the name change emphasising the party's orientation towards the particular concerns of South Africans.

During the period of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, also known as the Central African Federation ( CAF ) 1953 – 63, that brought the self-governing and virtually independent British colony of Southern Rhodesia into a federation with the British protectorates of Northern Rhodesia ( Zambia ) and Nyasaland, ( Malawi ) the political nature of Special Branch became a source of tension between the BSAP and different police forces in the northern territories.

The Turbans were an African American doo-wop group, who formed in Philadelphia in 1953.

* February 11-John van Melle, South African writer ( died 1953 )

In 1953, the Congolese music scene began to differentiate itself with the formation of African Jazz ( led by Joseph " Grand Kalle " Kabasele ), the first full-time orchestra to record and perform, and the debut of fifteen-year-old guitarist François Luambo Makiadi ( aka Franco ).

An Order-in-Council coming into effect on 31 December 1953 provided for a new Legislative Council to consist of a Speaker ex officio, eight nominated officials, twelve elected unofficials, four African unofficial members nominated by the Governor on the advice the African Representative Council, and two nominated unofficial members representing the interests of Africans.

In 1953, with calls for independence mounting in many of its African possessions, the United Kingdom created the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland ( or the Central African Federation ' CAF '), which consisted of Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland ( now Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi, respectively ).

It was first held from 27 May to 1 June 1953 as the East African Coronation Safari in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika, as a celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.