Articles related to "1954"

Ferrari and Maserati were the pace-setters in the early part of the 1954 Formula One season, but that changed with the arrival of Mercedes-Benz.

Fangio and Mercedes dominated the second half of the 1954 Formula One World Championship.

Hurricane Hazel left a path of destruction in Grenada, Haiti, Bahamas, South and North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, and Toronto.

Chrysler had relied exclusively on flatheads from its first car in 1924 through 1951, when it introduced its hemi V-8.

The Kaiser Darrin roadster arrived at the wrong time, as Kaiser Motors Corporation was dealing with survival.

West Germany came back from a two-goal deficit to beat heavily-favored Hungary 3-2 for their first world championship.

At Linden Airport in 1954 Al Keller made history by taking his Jaguar XK120 to victory in a NASCAR race. It would be 54 years before another foreign car won.

The Hungarian side were red-hot favourites to take the fifth World Cup trophy in 1954. The Magnificent Magyars went to Switzerland unbeaten in twenty-eight games.

In Alfred Hitchcock's famous thriller, L.B. Jefferies finds more than he bargained for when he begins to watch his neighbor's lives from his apartment window.

Them! is proof that a science fiction movie can make up for a lack of CGIs with a well constructed and intelligent script.

In 1954, the World Champions overwhelmed a team that would finish 42 games out of first. In 2008, the struggling Yanks annihilated the team that won the 2007 Series.

Unusual cars are often defended as having been ahead of their time. For Nash's 1950 Rambler, it was partly true, as its time - and more success - came again years later.

The Giants' owner asked fans why the Giants should be interested in moving to the west coast. He assured them that the team would remain the New York Giants.

Jack Kerouac's early composition journals provide valuable insight into the author and the man, his travels, and the ideas that informed his published work.

Brown v. Board of Education was a major Supreme Court case from 1954, in which segregation was deemed not fitting to the Fourteenth Amendment.

Poignant, superbly acted, and with an original and compelling storyline, the film is easily one of Fellini's best.

It took a record-breaking performance by the Cleveland Indians in 1954 to end a record-breaking run of success by the New York Yankees.

Warner Bros. has announced the latest (and possibly final) Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol.6, due October 21st.

Willie Mays played baseball because he loved the game. It didn't matter if he played at the Polo Grounds, on the streets of Harlem, or on the sandlots .

Big Brown's sire and dam were grandsired by the great Canadian racer Northern Dancer, a Triple Crown contender in 1964, as Brown is now 44 years later.

Here are the details for Warner Home Video's Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection Volume 3, coming to DVD on September 11th.

Edith Head's spectacular costumes have been seen by millions of movie lovers and earned her 8 Oscars.

In the decade following the Second World War, NASCAR, Formula 1 and sports car racing all lost highly promising drivers.

Josh Towers is having a season that is comparable to the 1954 Philadelphia Athletics' starters, but young fans don't know it because other starters are just as bad.

The Pledge of Allegiance may need to be changed to allow citizens to swear fidelity to America without sacrificing equal liberty guaranteed by the First Amendment.

The Hungarian football team of the 1950's ushered in a new era of technically adroit attacking football. They dominated the international scene for almost six years.

Garrincha stands out in place of an injured Pele as Brazil knock off Czechoslovakia 3-1 to repeat their World Cup title in 1962 in Chile.

West Germany captured their second World Cup title thanks to a masterful performance by Franz Beckenbauer and a 2-1 victory over the Netherlands in the final.

Ernest Hemingway's Author Snapshot Biography.

Never before and not yet again has such a storm battered southern Ontario. Dozens of people were killed, many more left homeless from Hurricane Hazel's gales and floods

The 13th film of his career, Ride Clear of Diablo, was released in 1954. Co-starring Dan Duryea, the well-paced western furthered cemented Audie's screen persona.

Torre's teams finished first as many times as Stengel's, but Torre won 4 fewer pennants because he was defeated in the playoffs, which didn't exist when Stengel managed.

According to many, this was the greatest team in baseball history. Here is a brief summary of the players that led the team to eternal greatness.

In October, the Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced once again. Find out more about this important literary prize, its history and previous literature nobelists.

He was one of the greatest ball players of all time.He seemed to be everywhere in the outfield and was Rookie of the Year in 1951 and Most Valuable Player in 1954.

Linus Pauling was a genius who described the chemical bond, protein structure and the benefits of Vitamin C and became the only person to win two unshared Nobel Prizes.

The Red Sox should win the Eastern Division, but that doesn't mean Yankees' haters are safe.

Anti-communist efforts in the United States during the 1950s.

From Howdy Doody to Dragnet, the Golden Age of Television is being honored on a sheet of 20 commemorative postage stamps on Aug. 11 in Hollywood.

General Mark Clark served in the United States Army over 36 years. He commanded forces in Northern Africa and Italy during WWII. In April of 1952, he succeeded General Ma

In need of pitching for 1954, the Giants traded the player who hit the "shot heard 'round the world" for Johnny Antonelli, who helped lead New York to the World Series.

Dietary cholesterol and saturated fats have been blamed for cardiovascular disease, but scientific evidence shows that other factors are involved.

Phone booth ads of the 1950s and 1960s pay tribute to a product that may never be advertised again. They also provide comparisons and contrasts to today's advertising.

In 1977, jockey Steve Cauthen was 17 when he was named Sportsman of the Year by Sports Illustrated. Cauthen won a record $6 million that year riding Thoroughbreds.

In 1954 the CIA overthrew the democratically elected president of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. In doing so, they paved the way for decades of unchecked violence.

One of the most powerful accusations hurled in politics to this day is McCarthyism. Who was McCarthy and why did the ism become a term of reproach?

These days, family Christmas traditions often include watching a favourite holiday movie - from the old classics to modern holiday fairy tales.

Spooner set the record for the most strikeouts by a pitcher in his first two games, but he pitched only one full season in the majors due to a sore arm.

After World War II, Nash Motors went after the compact car market. Its smallest found success as a Nash Metropolitan, Hudson Metropolitan and even Austin Metropolitan.

As an insurgency grows in size it can switch from guerrilla tactics and develop into a conventional armed force that can negate the technological advantage of it's enemy.