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Wednesday, October 04, 1961

Top Songs for 1961

The Lion Sleeps Tonight by Tokens Big Bad John by Jimmy Dean
Pony Time by Chubby Checker Take Good Care of My Baby by Bobby Vee
Tossin' and Turnin' by Bobby Lewis Calcutta by Lawrence Welk
Runaway by Del Shannon Wonderland By Night by Bert Kaempfert
Blue Moon by Marcels Runaround Sue by Dion

1961 Prices US President-John F. Kennedy
Bread: $0.21/loaf
Milk: $1.05/gal US Vice President-Lyndon B. Johnson
Eggs: $0.92/doz
Car: $2,275
Gas: $0.31/gal
House: $18,800
Stamp: $0.04/ea
Avg Income: $6,471/yr
Min Wage: $1.15/hr
DOW Avg: 731

On TV in 1961

Leave it to Beaver Perry Mason The Twilight Zone The Andy Griffith Show The Flinstones
Bonanza Gunsmoke The Dick Van Dyke Show I Love Lucy Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Hot New Toys in 1961

Frosty The Sno-cone Machine Slip 'N Slide Dick Tracy Wrist Radio
Lie Detector Little Red Spinning Wheel Mr. Mix-It
Beany Copter Stratego

Top Books in 1961

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
The City in History by Lewis Mumford The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark Art and Illusion by Ernest H. Gombrich
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller