Events
- E. E. Cummings and Rachel Carson are awarded Guggenheim Fellowships.
- Flannery O'Connor is diagnosed with lupus.
- Anthony Powell produces the first novel of his A Dance to the Music of Time duodecalogy.
- Arthur C. Clarke publishes "The Sentinel", the story that will form the basis for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- First appearance of Dennis the Menace comic strip in The Beano.
- Janie Moore, C. S. Lewis's adoptive mother, dies.
- James Clavell marries actress April Stride, who introduces him to the movie business.
- Joe Orton enters the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“Just as a mirror may be used to reflect images, so ancient events may be used to understand the present.”
—Chinese proverb.
“On the most profitable lie, the course of events presently lays a destructive tax; whilst frankness invites frankness, puts the parties on a convenient footing, and makes their business a friendship.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the people that tell them.
Still, you can’t listen unmoved to tales of misery and murder.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)