The inaugural Grammy Awards were held on May 4, 1959 at the Beverly
Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. They recognized musical accomplishments
by performers for the year 1958. Domenico Modugno, Henry Mancini,
Ella Fitzgerald and Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.(David Seville) each won 2
awards. Ella Fitzgerald and bandleader Count Basie become the first
African Americans to win Grammy Awards. Comedian Mort Sahl hosted
the event.
Mort Sahl
Bob Edwards hosting All Things Considered circa 1974.
All Things Considered (ATC) is the flagship news program on the broadcast
network National Public Radio (NPR). It was the first news program on NPR,
and is broadcast live worldwide through several outlets.
NPR is a privately- and publicly-funded non-profit media organization that
serves a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. It replaced
the National Educational Radio Network on February 26, 1970.
Twister is a game of physical skill produced by Hasbro Games. It was designed by Charles F. Foley and Neil Rabens in 1966, and became a success when Eva Gabor played it with Johnny Carson (above) on television’s Tonight Show on May 3, 1966.
