* 1955 – Frank Hoste, Belgian cyclist

* Guys and Dolls ( 1955 ) — Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, and Stubby Kaye.

In the spring of 1955, after a long party in Las Vegas with Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, her husband Sid Luft, Mike Romanoff and wife Gloria, David Niven, Angie Dickinson and others, Lauren Bacall surveyed the wreckage of the party and declared, " You look like a goddamn rat pack.

* 1955 – Frank Sontag, American radio host

* September 8 – Frank Lowson English Test Cricketer 1951 – 1955 ( b. 1925 )

Frank Bartholomew, the last UP president to ascend to the agency's top job directly from its news, rather than sales, ranks, took over in 1955, and according to his cited autobiography, was obsessed with merging UP with the International News Service, a news agency that had been founded by William Randolph Hearst in 1909 following Scripps ' lead.

Nimoy served as a sergeant in the U. S. Army from 1953 through 1955, alongside fellow actor Ken Berry and architect Frank Gehry.

* Our Town ( television ), a live musical 1955 TV adaptation on Producers ' Showcase starring Frank Sinatra as the Stage Manager, Paul Newman as George Gibbs, and Eva Marie Saint as Emily.

During the 1960s he was a member of the group, known as The Participants, which also included John Button, Richard McGarvie Frank Costigan and Barry Jones, who opposed the left-wing group which controlled the Victorian Labor Party from 1955 onwards.

* Frank Vandenbroucke, politician ( b. 1955 )

* Anderson, Frank G. ( 1955 ).

* Beale, Frank D. ( 1955 ) The Virginian Railway Company 45th Annual Report Year Ended December 31, 1954. published in-house

He also established himself as a favorite of producer Stanley Kramer, taking key supporting roles in the western High Noon ( 1952 ) ( starring Gary Cooper ), Not as a Stranger ( 1955 ), a hospital melodrama featuring Robert Mitchum and Frank Sinatra, and The Defiant Ones ( 1958, starring Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier ).

Jerry Lee would lead the team for a single season in 1955 before Frank Sevigne took over the program.

The story is a fictionalised account of the relationship between Janet Frame and Frank Sargeson during her time living as a guest on his Takapuna property in 1955 – 56.

* The Court Jester ( with Melvin Frank ) ( 1955 ) ( also Co-Director )

After release, he studied art first at the Camberwell School of Arts and then at the Royal College of Art ( 1955 – 1957 ), where his fellow students included Peter Blake and Frank Auerbach.

Throughout the 1950s, Winters continued in films, including Meet Danny Wilson ( 1952 ) as Frank Sinatra's leading lady, most notably in Charles Laughton's 1955 Night of the Hunter, with Robert Mitchum and Lillian Gish, and the less successful I Am A Camera starring opposite Julie Harris and Laurence Harvey.

* Eleven Major League Baseball players were born in Poughkeepsie: Frank Bahret ( 1858 ), Frank Beck ( 1860 ), Bill Daley ( 1868 ), Buttons Briggs ( 1875 ), Elmer Steele ( 1886 ), Mickey McDermott ( 1929 ), Fred Lasher ( 1941 ), Tommy Boggs ( 1955 ), Ricky Horton ( 1959 ), Frank Cimorelli ( 1968 ), Jeff Pierce ( 1969 ), and Dan Gallagher ( 1982 ).

In addition, it supports research via an extensive library ; runs the Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies, a summer graduate-level academic program, established in 1955 by maritime historian Professor Robert G. Albion of Harvard University ; and, in conjunction with Williams College, hosts Williams-Mystic, an undergraduate program in maritime studies.

The men and their teams generally credited with the creation of the original Thunderbird are: Lewis D. Crusoe, a retired GM executive lured out of retirement by Henry Ford II ; George Walker, chief stylist and a Ford vice-president ; Frank Hershey, chief stylist for Ford Division ; Bill Boyer, designer Body Development Studio who became manager of Thunderbird Studio in spring of 1955, and Bill Burnett, chief engineer.

The musical has had several Broadway and London revivals, as well as a 1955 film adaptation starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine.

This production added the song " Adelaide " that Frank Loesser had written for the 1955 film adaptation.

Mayor Richard J. Daley, a Democrat, was elected in 1955, in the era of machine politics.

* Breuer J, Freud S, " Studies in Hysteria ", Vol II of the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud ( Hogarth Press, London, 1955 ).

In late 1954, Gen. J. Lawton Collins was made ambassador to " Free Vietnam " ( the term South Vietnam came into use in 1955 ), effectively elevating the country to sovereign status.

J. Gagé " Apollon Romain " in BÉFAR 182 Paris 1955.

* 1955 – Jim J. Bullock, American actor

* Taylor, A. J. P. The Struggle for Mastery in Europe: 1848-1918 ( Oxford History of Modern Europe ) ( 1955 ), diplomatic history

* 1955 – D. J. MacHale, American author and TV writer

Gell-Mann married Marcia Southwick in 1992, after the death of his first wife, J. Margaret Dow ( d. 1981 ), whom he married in 1955.

Paul J. McAuley ( born 23 April 1955 ) is a British botanist and award-winning author.

J. D. Salinger's Nine Stories ( 1953 ) experimented with point of view and voice, while Flannery O ’ Connor's story A Good Man is Hard to Find ( 1955 ) reinvigorated the Southern Gothic style.

** Edgar J. Kaufmann, American merchant and patron of Fallingwater ( d. 1955 )

* October 26 – Thomas J. Preston, Jr., Professor of Archeology at Princeton University, second husband of Frances Cleveland, widow of President Grover Cleveland ( d. 1955 )

In 1955, Ulam and C. J. Everett proposed, in contrast to Rover's continuous heating of rocket exhaust, to harness small nuclear explosions for propulsion.

* Okulitch, V. J., 1955: Part E – Archaeocyatha and Porifera.

In a 1955 article published in the philosophy journal Mind, J. L. Mackie attempted to resolve the paradox by distinguishing between first-order omnipotence ( unlimited power to act ) and second-order omnipotence ( unlimited power to determine what powers to act things shall have ).

* In the DC Comics universe, the Martian Manhunter ( J ' onn J ' onzz ) ( 1955 ) is a superhero and a member of the Justice League, believed to be the last of the peaceful Green Martians.

The world's first purpose-built container ship was the Clifford J. Rodgers, built in Montreal in 1955 and owned by the White Pass and Yukon Route.

As a theory of phonological representation, autosegmental phonology developed a formal account of ideas that had been sketched in earlier work by several linguists, notably Bernard Bloch ( 1948 ), Charles Hockett ( 1955 ) and J. R. Firth ( 1948 ).

* 1961 — J. Heinrich Matthaei cracked the first codon of the genetic code ( the codon for the amino acid phenylalanine ) using Grunberg-Manago's 1955 enzyme system for making polynucleotides.

McCormick, a vigorous campaigner for the Republican Party, died in 1955, just four days before Democratic boss Richard J. Daley was elected mayor for the first time.

* Robert Baldick, The Life of J .- K. Huysmans ( Oxford, 1955 ; new edition revised by Brendan King, Dedalus Books, 2006 )

Mulgrew was born in 1955 in Dubuque, Iowa, into an Irish Catholic family, to Thomas James " T. J ." Mulgrew II, a contractor, and Joan Virginia Mulgrew ( née Kiernan ), an artist and painter.

The Abbey's organ, located in the North Transept was installed in 1858 by Gray & Davison, and completely rebuilt in 1955 by J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd, though that restoration's action failed by 1987 and had to be replaced.

* John J. McKeithen, governor of Louisiana ( 1964 – 1972 ); Louisiana Public Service Commissioner ( 1955 – 1964 ); state representative ( 1948 – 1952 ); U. S. Army combat officer ( 1942 – 1945 ) having received two Bronze Stars in the battles of Okinawa and Iwo Jima