His many plays included Nobody's Widow ( 1910 ), starring Blanche Bates ; Fair and Warmer ( 1915 ), starring Madge Kennedy ( filmed in 1919 ); The Gold Diggers ( 1919 ), starring Ina Claire ( filmed in 1923 as The Gold Diggers, in 1928 as Gold Diggers of Broadway and also as Gold Diggers of 1933 ); Ladies ' Night, 1920, starring Charlie Ruggles ( filmed in 1928 ); the famous mystery play The Bat ( with Mary Roberts Rinehart ), 1920 ( filmed in 1926, 1930 and 1959 ); Getting Gertie's Garter ( with Wilson Collison ), 1921, starring Hazel Dawn ( filmed in 1927 and 1945 ); The Demi-Virgin, 1921, also starring Hazel Dawn ; The Alarm Clock, 1923 ; The Best People ( with David Gray ), 1924 ( filmed in 1925 and as Fast and Loose in 1930 ), the song-farce Naughty Cinderella, 1925, starring Irene Bordoni and The Garden of Eden in 1927 ( filmed in as 1928 ).

Coburn's film debut came in 1959 as the sidekick of bad guy Pernell Roberts in the Randolph Scott western Ride Lonesome.

Lomax also did important field work with Elizabeth Barnicle and Zora Neale Hurston in Florida and the Bahamas ( 1935 ); with John Wesley Work III and Lewis Jones in Mississippi ( 1941 and 42 ); with folksingers Robin Roberts and Jean Ritchie in Ireland ( 1950 ); with his second wife Antoinette Marchand in the Caribbean ( 1961 ); with Shirley Collins in Britain and the American South ( 1959 ); with Joan Halifax in Morocco ; and with his daughter.

The book contains photographs of Gregory performing at the Village Gate ; him and his brother ( 1942 ); his mother, Lucille ; Gregory as a drummer at Southern Illinois University ( 1953 ); as an SIU sprinter and Outstanding Athlete of the Year ( 1953 ); with coach Leland Lingle ( 1954 ); with Sammy Davis, Jr. at Roberts Show Club, Chicago ( 1959 ); in a jail cell in Chicago ; performing at the Hungry i, San Francisco ( 1963, shortly before the murder of Medgar Evars ); at a voter registration rally, Greenwood, Mississippi ( April 1963 ), among others.

* Roberts, Jane ( 1959 ).

* Roberts, Jane ( 1959 ).

* Speech and Brain Mechanisms, Penfield, Wilder and Roberts, Lamar, Princeton University Press, 1959.

In his Major League debut on July 30, 1959, McCovey went four-for-four against Hall-of-Famer Robin Roberts, hitting two triples and two singles, en route to a. 354 batting average that year, in which he won National League Rookie of the Year honors while playing in just 52 games.

* Pernell Roberts appeared as Reverend Dave Clayton in " The Belles of Silver Flats " ( 1959 ).

( In 1959 Roberts guest starred in episodes of General Electric Theater, Cimarron City, Sugarfoot, Lawman, One Step Beyond, Bronco, 77 Sunset Strip, and The Detectives, " House Call.

* Roberts, G. B., " Power wastage in tires ", International Rubber Conference, Washington, D. C. 1959.

* Michael Roberts ( footballer ) ( born 1959 ), Australian rules footballer and TV journalist

Penfield and Roberts ( 1959 ) and Lenneberg ( 1967 ) were the first to propose a critical period for first language acquisition.

* Shake Hands With the Devil ( 1959 ) ( w / Ben Roberts )

" In 1959 Roberts and an accomplice posed as tax inspectors to gain entry into the home of an elderly man.

From 1959 through the 1963 season, White won more races ( 28 ) than any other driver ; including legends Lee and Richard Petty, Ned Jarrett, Fireball Roberts, Junior Johnson, Curtis Turner, Joe Weatherly and Buck Baker.

In February, 1959, during the second admission to The New York Hospital, a biopsy specimen of the left gastrocnemius showed striking increase in the sarcolemmal sheath nuclei and shrunken muscle fibers in several sections.

Major left school at age 16 in 1959, with three O-levels: History, English Language, and English Literature.

Argentine communist revolutionary Che Guevara ( left ) and Fidel Castro, leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008

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Clockwise, from left: United Nations soldiers during the Korean War, which was the first UN authorized conflict ; Two atomic explosions from the RDS-37 and Operation Upshot-Knothole | Upshot-Knothole ( Soviet and American, respectively ) nuclear weapons, symbolizing the escalation of Cold War tensions between the two nations in the 1950s ; Israeli troops prepare to fight the Egypt ians during the Suez Crisis of 1956 ; A replica of Sputnik I, the world's first satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 ; Fidel Castro leads the Cuban Revolution in 1959 ; North Sea flood of 1953

Guaraldi left the group early in 1959 to pursue his own projects full-time.

He received the news of the death of his father in October 1959 whilst performing with Juan Carlos Copes and María Nieves in Puerto Rico and on his return to New York City a few days later, he asked to be left alone in his apartment and in less than an hour wrote his famous tango, Adiós Nonino, in homage to his father.

Although EMKA, Ltd. ( now part of Universal Television ) had acquired Paramount's older films in 1959, Animal Crackers evidently was regarded as a mess best left untouched.

Crawford, left near-penniless following Steele's death, accepted a supporting role in the film The Best of Everything ( 1959 ).

However, dissatisfied with the quality of the films he was offered, calling the studios " a Tiffany, which had forgotten how to make silver ", Nielsen left MGM, but not before auditioning for the role of Messala in the 1959 historical piece Ben-Hur.

Most coal operations left Wilkes-Barre by the end of World War II, and the 1959 Knox Mine Disaster marked the end of King Coal's heyday.

Jurij Moskvitin ( middle ) accompanying Karen Blixen / Isak Dinesen ( right ) meeting composer Igor Stravinsky ( left ) at the Copenhagen City Hall in 1959.

In 1959, Daphne Oram left the workshop to set up her own studio, the Oramics Studios for Electronic Composition, where she eventually developed her " Oramics " technique of electronic sound creation.

Campanella himself authored the inspirational book It ’ s Good to Be Alive, published in 1959, which details his journey back from the near-fatal car accident that left him paralyzed.

Some time after serving in 1959 as editor of the University of London Carnival Committee's journal, Irving left for West Germany, where he worked as a steelworker in a Thyssen steel works in the Ruhr area and learned German.

National Semiconductor was founded in Danbury, Connecticut by Dr. Bernard J Rothlein on May 27, 1959, when he and seven colleagues had left their employment at the semiconductor division of Sperry Rand Corporation.

Eban left the United States in 1959 and returned to Israel, where he was elected to the Knesset ( the Israeli parliament ) as a member of Mapai.

Its active phase commenced in 1917, and ceased in 1959 when RAF Fighter Command left the aerodrome.

She left Germany to join him in Paris and they announced their engagement in 1959.

In late 1959, Evans left the Miles Davis band and began his career as a leader with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian, a group now regarded as a seminal modern jazz trio.

After his father's business collapsed, Ashdown passed the naval scholarship examination to pay for his school fees, but left before taking A-levels and joined the Royal Marines in 1959, serving until 1972, retiring with the rank of Captain.

Jacobs left the group in 1959.

The college Demara founded, LaMennais College in Alfred, Maine, existed from 1951 ( when Demara left ) through 1959 when it moved to Canton, Ohio and in 1960 changed its name to Walsh College ( now Walsh University ).

In 1959, AMC hired designer Richard A. Teague who had previously worked for General Motors, Packard, and Chrysler ; after Edmund E. Anderson left the company in 1961, Teague was named principal designer and in 1964, Vice President.

Voting preparations began in the fall of 1959, although the actual demarcation and planning for the rural communes was completed in 1958.

Voter registration began in late November 1959 and continued until early January, 1960.

Gladden has been an outspoken critic of the present city administration and led his union's battle against the teamsters, which began organizing city firemen in 1959.

The cleaner equipment firm began operations in 1953 and the unit system, which turns out a complete ginning system, began operations in 1959.

During the summer of 1959, Pasternak began writing The Blind Beauty, a trilogy of stage plays set before and after Alexander II's abolition of serfdom in Russia.

Labour's failure to win the General election of 1959 and its rejection of unilateralism in 1961 upset the plans of the CND leadership and, although CND retained the support of a significant minority of the population, from this point onwards its prospects of success began to fade.

By 1959, the company had dealers across the U. S. and began selling the 310 ( known as Bluebird domestically ).

Kevin began playing a form of Frisbee golf in 1959 called Street Frisbee Golf.

This success began with Pillow Talk ( 1959 ), co-starring Rock Hudson, who became a lifelong friend, and Tony Randall.

Shooting began on March 16, 1959 with Anita Ekberg climbing the stairs to the cupola of Saint Peter ’ s in a mammoth décor constructed at Cinecittà.

In 1959 complete knock down assembly began in South Africa and Indonesia.

When The Second City opened its doors on December 16, 1959, directed by Paul Sill, his mother Viola Spolin began training new improvisers through a series of classes and exercises which became the cornerstone of modern improv training.

In 1959, nationalist leader Tom Mboya began a program, funded by Americans, of sending talented youth to the United States for higher education.

He had used topical materials throughout his series, but in 1959, his Starship Troopers was considered by the Scribner's editorial staff to be too controversial for their prestige line, and they rejected it ; Heinlein found another publisher, feeling himself released from the constraints of writing novels for children, and he began to write " my own stuff, my own way ", and he wrote a series of challenging books that redrew the boundaries of science fiction, including his best-known work, Stranger in a Strange Land ( 1961 ), and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ( 1966 ).

The US Air Force was interested and began accepting bids for development systems in early 1959.

The 1950s or The Fifties was the decade that began on January 1, 1950 and ended on December 31, 1959.

** The Vietnam War began in 1959.

* The wind of destruction began in Rwanda in 1959, following the beating up of Hutu politician Dominique Mbonyumutwa by Tutsi forces.

The Anglo-Danish engineers Ove Arup and Partners put out tenders without adequate working drawings and construction work began on 2 March 1959.

Lee began teaching martial arts in the United States in 1959.

In 1959, Walt Disney Productions began looking for land for a second park to supplement Disneyland, which opened in Anaheim, California, in 1955.

In 1959, construction began on the final link for the Sacramento-San Joaquin River water system, the California Aqueduct.

While his music had been featured on screen for years and sometimes the whole orchestra in film shorts, Ellington ( with Strayhorn ) now began to work directly on music for movies, contributing scores for Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ) and Paris Blues ( 1961 ).

At the same time Andrzej Wajda began his work as a director in theatre, including such as Michael V. Gazzo's A Hatful of Rain ( 1959 ), Hamlet ( 1960 ), and Two for the Seesaw ( 1963 ) by William Gibson.