Nostalgia
1961

Oscar Winners
Best Picture
	WEST SIDE STORY
Actor
Maximilian Schell
JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG
Actress
Sophia Loren
TWO WOMEN

Top 25 Songs
1	TOSSIN'AND TURNIN'
		Bobby Lewis Beltone
2	EXODUS
		Ferrante and Teicher UA
3	WONDERLAND BY NIGHT
		Bert Kaempfert Decco
4	BIG BAD JOHN
		Jimmy Dean Columbia
5	TRAVELIN'MAN
		Ricky Nelson Imperial
6	WILL YOU LOVE ME TOMORROW
		The Shirelles Scepter
7	PONY TIME
		Chubby Checker Parkway
8	RUNAWAY
		Del Shannon Big Top
9	CALCUTTA
		Lawrence Welk Dot
10	RUNAROUND SUE
		Dion Laurie
11	THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT
	The Tokens RCA
12	BRISTOL STOMP
		The Dovells Parkway
13	DEDICATED TO THE ONE I LOVE
		The Shirelles Scepter
14	RUNNING SCARED
		Roy Orbison Monument
15	BLUE MOON
		The Marcels Colpix
16	RUN TO HIM
		Bobby Vee Liberty
17	MOTHER-IN-LAW
		Ernie K-Doe Minit
18	MICHAEL
		The Highwaymen UA
19	PLEASE MR. POSTMAN
		The Marveleites Tomic
20	QUARTER TO THREE
		Gary U.S. Bonds Legrand
21	HIT THE ROAD JACK
		Roy Charles ABC-Paramount
22	SURRENDER
		Elvis Presley RCA
23	THE BOLL WEEVIL SONG
		Brook Benton Mercury
24	DON'T WORRY
		Mary Robbins Columbia
25	A HUNDRED POUNDS OF CLAY
		Gene McDoniels Liberty

World Series Champion
N.Y. Yankees 4, Cincinnati 1

National Football League Champion
.Houston Oilers defeated the San Diego Chargers 10-3 for the AFL championship, December 24
Green Bay defeated the New York Giants 37-0, December 31.

National Basketball League Champion
1960-61    Boston Celtics over the St. Louis Hawks    4-1

National Hockey League Champion
Chicago Black Hawks

Heavyweight Champion
13 Mar 61   Floyd Patterson w.ko.6 Ingernar Johansson at Miami
04 Dec 61   Floyd Patterson w.ko.4 Tom McNeeley at Toronto

President/Vice President
Republican 1953-1961, Dwight David Eisenhower/Richard M. Nixon
Democrat, 1961-1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy/Lyndon B. Johnson

News Events
John F. Kennedy is inaugurated President of the United States. 
An estimated 1,200 anti-Castro exiles aided by U.S. make a failed invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs. 
Navy Commander. Alan B. Shepard Jr. becomes the first U.S. spaceman after rocketing 118 miles above the earth . 
Hurricane "Carla" wipes out Texas gulf cities claiming 46 lives. 
Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin makes the first manned space flight.