Arts and Literature
- Harry Secombe is voted Show Business Personality of the Year.
- Sir Lewis Casson and Dame Sybil Thorndike celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary by appearing together in Eighty in the Shade, a play written especially for them.
- Shirley Bassey is the first Welsh singer to hit number one in the UK pop charts, with "As I Love You".
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“I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“The textile and needlework arts of the world, primarily because they have been the work of women have been especially written out of art history. It is a male idea that to be “high” and “fine” both women and art should be beautiful, but not useful or functional.”
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“I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book.... The recipes were to be the routine ones: how to make dry toast, instant coffee, hearts of lettuce and brownies. But as an added attraction, at no extra charge, my idea was to put a fried egg on the cover. I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.”
—Groucho Marx (1895–1977)