In 1961, multiple Academy Award-winning director Frank Capra cast Falk in the comedy Pocketful of Miracles.

On September 29, 1961, Falk and Walter Matthau guest-starred in the premiere episode, " The Million Dollar Dump ," of ABC's crime drama Target: The Corruptors !, with Stephen McNally.

On March 3, 1961, he co-starred with Peter Falk and Joyce Van Patten in the episode " Cold Turkey " of the ABC legal drama series The Law and Mr. Jones starring James Whitmore.

In 1961 Broadcasting reported that Four Star Productions planned to film a Sam Spade television pilot with Peter Falk in the title role, but no such series ever arrived on TV.

It was later filmed by Stanley Kramer under the title Eight Iron Men with a different cast of Bonar Colleano, Lee Marvin, and Arthur Franz in 1952, then was a 1961 television production with Peter Falk, Robert Lansing, and Sal Mineo directed by Seymour Robbie.

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

During the period from 1 July 1960 through 31 January 1961, the Medical Museum was required to move to Temporary Building `` S '' on the Mall from Chase Hall.

During the last week of march 1961, Columbus, Ohio was the site of the Fourth Symposium on Temperature, Its Measurement And Control In Science And Industry.

The dissolved oxygen in the aeration unit was consistently high until January 29, 1961.

The rule was enforced by demand of Sen. Wayne Morse ( D., Ore. ) in connection with President Eisenhower's cabinet selections in 1953 and President Kennedy's in 1961.

John Di Massimo has been elected president of the 1961 Columbus Day Celebration Committee, it was announced yesterday.

On a quarter-to-quarter comparison, the first quarter of 1961 total of 9,273 cars was 21 per cent behind the previous year's 3-month total of 11,744.

Many people seem hopeful, yet it is difficult to predict whether or not there will be any more real attainment of Christian unity in 1961 than there was in 1861.

Murder, She Said ( 1961, directed by George Pollock ) was the first of four British MGM productions starring Rutherford.

The main treaty was opened for signature on December 1, 1959, and officially entered into force on June 23, 1961.

See also note 43 at p. 163, with references to Palanque ( 1933 ), Gaudemet ( 1972 ), Matthews ( 1975 ) and King ( 1961 )</ ref > Under Ambrose's influence, Theodosius issued the 391 " Theodosian decrees ," which with increasing intensity outlawed Pagan practises, and the Altar of Victory was removed by Gratian.

First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.

Apollo ran from 1961 to 1972, and was supported by the two-man Gemini program which ran concurrently with it from 1962 to 1966.

A site was chosen in Houston, Texas on land donated by Rice University, and Administrator Webb announced the conversion on September 19, 1961.

But an even bigger facility would be needed for the mammoth rocket required for the manned lunar mission, so land acquisition was started in July 1961 for a Launch Operations Center ( LOC ) immediately north of Canaveral at Merritt Island.

Portrayed by Steve Reeves, he was the main character in the 1961 sword-and-sandal peplum Guerra di Troia ( The Trojan War ).

In 1961, Sony Corporation was the first Japanese company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange, in the form of American Depositary Receipts ( ADRs ), which are traded over-the-counter.

In cooperation with the South African Communist Party, MK was founded in 1961.

A larger variation of the same design which Sakharov worked on was the 50MT Tsar Bomba of October 1961, which was the most powerful nuclear device ever exploded.

The first student chapter was founded in 1961 at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

The show was first announced in The New York Times on October 5, 1961: " For the winter of 1962, Laurents is nurturing another musical project, The Natives Are Restless.

The Stadium was the scene Lou Gehrig's Farewell Speech in 1939, Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series, Roger Maris ' record breaking 61st home run in 1961, and Reggie Jackson's 3 home runs to clinch Game 6 of the 1977 World Series.

A European-African advisory council was formed in 1951, and the 1961 constitution established a consultative legislative council.

Avibrás Aerospace Industry ( Avibrás Indústria Aeroespacial S. A .- Avibrás ) was established in 1961 ; Engesa, in 1963 ; and Embraer, in 1969.

In 1961, he introduced Warren Beatty in his first screen appearance with a starring role in Splendor in the Grass ( 1961 ), with Natalie Wood ; the film was nominated for two Oscars and won one.

In 1961 the film was nominated for Best Art Direction ( art directors George W. Davis and Addison Hehr ) and Best Sound, but failed to win either.

In the history of the Academy Awards, established duos have been nominated for Best Director only four times: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins ( who won for West Side Story in 1961 ); Warren Beatty and Buck Henry ( who were nominated for Heaven Can Wait in 1978 ), and Joel Coen and Ethan Coen ( who won for No Country for Old Men in 2007 and were nominated again in 2010 for True Grit ).

MacMurray was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for The Absent-Minded Professor ( 1961 ).

Boyer never won an Oscar, though he was nominated for Best Actor four times in Conquest ( 1937 ), Algiers ( 1938 ), Gaslight ( 1944 ) and Fanny ( 1961 ), the latter also winning him a nomination for the Laurel Awards for Top Male Dramatic Performance.

In 1961, Whitman was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as a child molester in The Mark, a role many other better known actors turned down.

* 1961 nominated: Golden Bear ( Romanoff and Juliet )

* 1961 nominated: Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture ( Spartacus )

She was again nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Children's Hour ( 1961 ).

* Laurence Fishburne ( born 1961 ), Academy Award nominated actor.

) In 1961, Channing became one of the few performers nominated for a Tony Award for work in a revue ( rather than a traditional book musical ); she was nominated for Best Actress in a Musical for the short-lived revue Show Girl.

* Hammarskjöld posthumously received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1961, having been nominated before his death.

Lollobrigida has won 6 David di Donatello, 2 Nastro d ' Argento, and 6 Bambi Awards ; she was nominated three times for the Golden Globe and won one in 1961 as World Film Favourite-Female ; she was nominated once for a Bafta.

His first novel, Dark Universe ( 1961 ) was nominated for a Hugo.

The 1961 Pulitzer Prize-winning play was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play and ran 333 performances and one preview from November 29, 1960 to September 16, 1961.

In 1961, after the ousting of these ones, he was nominated secretary for organization.

Danny Tenaglia ( born March 7, 1961 ) is a New York-based DJ and Grammy nominated record producer.

The character has won and been nominated for several awards over the years, including winning the 1961 Alley Award for Best Supporting Character.