Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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While Norman Vincent Peale and his book, Power of Posifizfe Tlzilzkifzg, infused a new praying-can-be-profitable note into religion, the zealous evangelist, Billy Graham, ignited a hellfire under audiences all over the country and in his mission to London even shook the dignity-bound Arch- bishop of Canterbury a bit. The obituary list of these years made more than small- town spinsters raise their eyebrows. The old Guard Repub- licans were decapitated and left heartless by the death of Bob Taft. The loss of King George VI reminded Britain of her own shivery hold on the world. Eugene O'Neill, America's great- est playwright, went Beyond fbc' Horizon but his were Days Wifbozlat Eml. The condemmed spies, the Rosenbergs, were executed amidst a storm of criticism and debate but, it seems, were quickly forgotten. The Braves died, at least in Boston, but were resurrected by the fervid fans of Milwaukee, thus introducing a gradual shake-up in the major leagues. And behind the Iron Curtain pudgy Georgy Malenkov succeeded Joseph Stalin who had controlled Russiais 200 millions since the 1920's and with amazing selling techniques had created more millions of captive customers of Communism. But the Red Empire trembled uneasily with the change of rulers and the new dictator,s grasp on the hammer and sickle was none too secure. Death of a Salesman

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But cinemaland's best and most popular pictures were still the traditional flats.', On the left is a scene from the African Qucciz with Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart, who received an Oscar for his role. High Noon, starring Gary Cooper, tick- tocked its Way to the top while its plaintive background ballad instantly became a pop- ular hit song. Sentimentality for director Cecil B. de Mille, plus the biggest box-office gross since Gone Wifb Ibn' Wfiml Qand not much elsej , netted the best picture Oscar for the circus extravaganza, The Grmfesf Show O11 Earib. Below are pictured Betty Hutton, James Stewart, and some one of the other clowns in the film. Paper-bound pocket books like those of Mickey Spillane were phenomenally successful, nearly 250 million copies being sold in the year 1952. But they were not all crime stories with lewd coversg even the Dialogues of Plato sold nearly 150,000 copies. In the hard-cover field two of the best-selling novels were the war stories, The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk, and From Here to Eicfrnify by James Jones. And Americans with eager curiosity discovered just how unfaithful their mates might be in Kinseyls Sexuzll Bvbiwior of Ibn' Hzmmn Fcfnmlcf.

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Tenzing and Hillary reached the summit of majestic Mt. Everest in time to present the conquest as a Coronation gift to Britain,s lovely new queen, Elizabeth II. ,fs