The original Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a play by Tennessee Williams,opened at the Morosco Theater in New York. It was directed Elia Kazan
and starred Barbara Bel Geddes as Maggie; Ben Gazzara as Brick; and Burl
Ives as Big Daddy. The play had 694 performances and won the Pulitzer
Prize for Drama in 1955.

 
From left: Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan

Barbara Bel Geddes as Maggie

The Boeing Model 450 B-47 Stratojet is a long-range, six-engine medium bomber that was put into service with the U.S. Air Force’s Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 1951. It remained a mainstay of SAC until 1965. The
B-47 was also adapted to a number of other missions, including photo
and weather reconnaissance.

When Billboard magazine premiered a weekly Best-Selling Popular Albums chart,
the position count varied anywhere from 10 to 30 albums. The first number-one
album on the new weekly list was Belafonte by Harry Belafonte.The chart was
renamed to Best-Selling Pop Albums later in 1956, and then to Best-Selling
Pop LPs in 1957. The chart is now titled the Billboard 200.

Early on the morning of Monday, March 24, 1958, Elvis Presley, accompanied by his 
parents and a group of family and friends, reported to the Memphis Draft Board and
from there, he and twelve other recruits were bused to Kennedy Veterans Memorial 
Hospital where he was given a physical, sworn in and then taken to Fort Chaffee, Arkansas for further processing. 

Private Elvis Presley