* William White, " Housman's Latin Inscriptions ", CJ ( 1955 ) 159-166

* Guthrie, William Keith Chambers, The Greeks and their Gods, 1955.

He also published influential biographies of William Morris ( 1955 ) and ( posthumously ) William Blake ( 1993 ) and was a prolific journalist and essayist.

Greenpeace purchased the Rainbow Warrior ( originally launched as the Sir William Hardy in 1955 ) at a cost of £ 40, 000.

Universal Time ( UT ), a term introduced in 1928, initially represented mean time at Greenwich determined in the traditional way to accord with the originally-defined universal day ; then from 1 January 1956 ( as decided by the IAU at Dublin, 1955, at the initiative of William Markowitz ) this " raw " form of UT was re-labeled UT0 and effectively superseded by refined forms UT1 ( UT0 equalized for the effects of polar wandering ) and UT2 ( UT1 further equalized for annual seasonal variations in earth rotation rate ).

* 1955 – William Wall, Irish writer

* 1955 William Gaddis's The Recognitions

* 1881 – William Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player ( d. 1955 )

* 1955 – William Jackson, Scottish harpist and composer ( Ossian )

The play was written as a rebuttal to the 1955 play and the 1960 film, which local Daytons claim did not accurately depict the trial or William Jennings Bryan.

* Beasley, William G. ( 1955 ).

On March 21, 1955, the studio was finally able engage in television through the successful Warner Bros. Television unit run by William T. Orr, Jack Warner's son-in-law.

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.

In 1955 Tracy turned down William Wyler's The Desperate Hours because he refused to take second-billing to Humphrey Bogart.

William Jennings Bryan said this is roughly the view espoused by Matthew Harrison Brady, a character in the 1955 play Inherit the Wind loosely based upon William Jennings Bryan.

After an eight-year absence from films, he starred in the 1955 film version of Mister Roberts opposite James Cagney, William Powell and Jack Lemmon, continuing a pattern of bringing his acclaimed stage roles to life on the big screen.

* Flagstaff, the space vessel in the science fiction novelette Uncle Buno ( 1955 ) ( Science Fantasy, Issue 16 ) by William F. Temple.

* 1955: A Fable by William Faulkner

He made his Broadway theater debut in the original production of William Inge's Picnic with Kim Stanley in 1953 and appeared in the original Broadway production of The Desperate Hours in 1955.

* Guthrie, William Keith Chambers, The Greeks and their Gods, 1955.

Recent examples include Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley ( originally published in 1955 ), Ira Levin's Sliver ( 1991 ), with the cover photograph depicting a steamy sex scene between Sharon Stone and William Baldwin straight from the 1993 movie, and, again, Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho ( 1991 ).

* 1955: The Taft Story by William S. White

* Brandon, William, The Men and the Mountain ( 1955 ) ISBN 0-8371-5873-7.

* 1955 – James Reilly, Irish politician

Day subsequently took on more dramatic roles, including her 1955 portrayal of singer Ruth Etting in the biographical film of Etting's life, Love Me or Leave Me, in which she co-starred with James Cagney.

: Heir apparent: Charles James Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford ( b. 1955 ), eldest surviving son of the 11th Duke

He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause ( 1955 ) and Giant ( 1956 ).

* TIB = The Interpreter ’ s Bible, The Holy Scriptures in the King James and Revised Standard versions with general articles and introduction, exegesis, exposition for each book of the Bible in twelve volumes, George Arthur Buttrick, Commentary Editor, Walter Russell Bowie, Associate Editor of Exposition, Paul Scherer, Associate Editor of Exposition, John Knox Associate Editor of New Testament Introduction and Exegesis, Samuel Terrien, Associate Editor of Old Testament Introduction and Exegesis, Nolan B. Harmon Editor, Abingdon Press, copyright 1955 by Pierce and Washabaugh, set up printed, and bound by the Parthenon Press, at Nashville, Tennessee, Volume XI, Philippians, Colossians and Exegesis by Francis W. Beare, Exposition by G. Preston MacLeod, Thessalonians, Pastoral Epistles First and Second Epistles to Timothy, and the Epistle to Titus, Philemon, Hebrews

One of the most famous was The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) from critically acclaimed Bengali film director Satyajit Ray, whose films had a profound influence on world cinema, with directors such as Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, James Ivory, Abbas Kiarostami, Elia Kazan, François Truffaut, Steven Spielberg ,< ref name = unmaderay >

* 1955 – James Eckhouse, American actor

After his death in 1955 James Dean was brought back to Fairmount and buried in Park Cemetery.

His 20-year run playing Dr. Frasier Crane ties a length set by James Arness in playing Marshall Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke from 1955 to 1975 and Richard Belzer in playing Det.

The language was developed beginning in 1955 by Dr James Cooke Brown with the goal of making a language so different from natural languages that people learning it would think in a different way if the hypothesis were true.

* 1955 – James House, American singer-songwriter

* 1955 – James Edwards, American basketball player

* 1887 – James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate ( d. 1955 )

* 1955 – James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer ( b. 1894 )

On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled.

* 1955 – Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.

In 1955, theatrical producer Martin Gabel was working on a stage adaptation of the James M. Cain novel Serenade, about an opera singer who comes to the realization he is homosexual, and he invited Laurents to write the book.

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* February 8 – James Dean, American actor ( d. 1955 )

* November 19 – James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1955 )

In 1955, he directed John Steinbeck's East of Eden, which introduced James Dean to movie audiences, making him an overnight star.

Kazan, Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, and James Dean ( 1955 )

With A Generation ( 1955 ), the first-time director poured out his disillusionment over jingoism, using as his alter ego a young, James Dean-style antihero played by Zbigniew Cybulski, 22-year-old Roman Polanski also featured.