Arnold Palmer helps Jack Nicklaus, with the traditional green jacket
The 1963 Masters Tournament was held from April 4 to April 7 at Augusta National
Golf Club. It was the 27th Masters Tournament in which 84 golfers entered with 50
of them making the cut at eight over-par. It was here that Jack Nicklaus won his
first green jacket, defeating Tony Lema by one stroke. This was one of six
Masters victories for Nicklaus.
Jack Nicklaus turned 72 in January
South Pacific is a musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein ll. The
production is based on the James A. Michener’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book
Tales of the South Pacific. It opened at the Majestic Theater, moving later to the
Broadway Theater in June 1953.
It is considered to be one of the greatest Broadway musicals, winning ten Tony
Awards, including Best musical, Best Score, Best Libretto, Best Director and
four acting awards.
Country music song writer, singer/musician Merle Haggard helped
to create the popular Bakersfield Sound along with Buck Owens. He
was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame for the hit song
“Okie from Muskogee.
Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967)
Spencer Tracy was one of the major stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age with
a career spanning 37 years. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards
for Best Actor, a record he shares with Laurence Olivier, of which he won
two.
Spencer Tracy in Fury (1936), his first major hit
Marlon Brando, Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004)
Bando is considered to be one of the most important actors in modern
American Cinema and was one of only three professional actors, along
with Charlie Chaplin and Marilyn Monroe, named by Time magazine as
one of its 100 Persons of the Century in 1999.
Marlon Brando became a screen star during the 1950s, winning his
first Academy Award for his performance as Terry Malloy in the 1954
film On the Waterfront. His second Academy Award came in 1972
for his role as Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s The
Godfather.
Brando in The Godfather
Marlon Brando as Col. Walter Kurtz in Apocalypse Now (1970)
