Synopsis
What A Year It Was! 1949 is a beautiful cocktail table book packed with hundreds of original photos, magazine ads and consumer pricing. It is loaded with facts on new products and inventions, advances in science and medicine, hit songs and films, popular radio and TV programs, Broadway plays, famous people, the latest look in fashion and, of course, sports winners. Laid out like a college yearbook with zany illustrations, What A Year It Was! 1949 will instantly take you back in time for a lively, fun look at the people, places and events that shaped world history and changed our lives forever.
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WHAT A YEAR IT WAS! 1949 is a nostalgic, informative, entertaining, sometimes tongue-in-cheek look back at the headline news and human interest events of that year.
In the first televised inauguration, Harry S. Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President of the U.S., Russia detonates its first atomic bomb, the Berlin Airlift brings food relief and Marshall Tito breaks ranks with the Soviets. Chiang Kai-shek's government collapses, Mao Tse-tung takes power and little Kathy Fiscus captures the nation's heart as valiant attempts are made to rescue her from an abandoned well.
"All The King's Men" receives best picture Oscar, Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" is first play to win all three top drama awards including the Pulitzer, "South Pacific" is best musical, radio fans tune into "Dragnet" and "Father Knows Best" and women's Roller Derby hits TV.
John Wayne and Gary Cooper are major box-office draws, Montgomery Clift and Kirk Douglas are destined for future stardom, Nat "King" Cole sings "Mona Lisa" and Gene Autry records "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer."
The baby boom continues with Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep and Richard Gere joining the diaper brigade born along with rockers of tomorrow Bruce Springsteen and Lionel Richie. Silly Putty and training wheels are invented, consumers shell out $.05 for a cup of coffee or a Coke, housewives try new automatic toasters, cake mixes, Sara Lee cheesecake and Walt Kelly's "Pogo" makes its newspaper debut. England ends candy rationing and "beefcake" and "pyramid club" creep into the American vocabulary.
The Yankees beat the Dodgers 4-1 winning their 12th World Series, Boston Red Sox signs Ted Williams for $100,000 making him highest paid player in baseball, the NBA is created and Ezzard Charles is the new World Heavyweight Boxing Champion.
What about you? Where were you in 1949? Was that the year you were born or got married, graduated high school or college or started your own business? Whatever personal meaning that year holds for you, WHAT A YEAR IT WAS! 1949 will bring a wistful smile to your face as you relive that very special time.
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