Ceil Gray, Frances (Heger) Haidusek, her sister Mary (Heger) Barta, and Maryann Janecka were all pregnant at the same time.
Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts were looking for them.
Popular songs:
He
I Believe
Ebb Tide
Stranger in Paradise from the musical, Kismet
How Much is that Doggie in the Window? sung by Patti Page
O! Mein Papa sung by Eddie Fisher.
Crying in the Chapel sung by The Orioles;
Young at Heart sung by Frank Sinatra;
Hi Lili, Hi Lo! sung by Leslie Caron and Mel Ferrer;
That's Amore! sung by Tony Martin,
and the theme from the movie, Moulin Rouge.
January-
12: Angelo Roncali/Pope John XXIII received the red hat from the agnostic president of France, Vincent Auriol, in the name of Pope Pius XIIPius XII, and became Cardinal Patriarch of Venice, Italy.
February-
1: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation changes to Cinemascope wide-screen moving
pictures and makes The Robe, starring Richard Burton and Jean Simmons,
based on the legend of the red robe Christ wore.
2: Vincent Gray's 5th birthday.
27: Friday, Sara Louise born to Cecilia and Robert Gray, on
Bobby Gray's 8th birthday, at Youens Hospital, Weimar, Texas.
She was named
after both her grandmothers, Sarah and Sadie, and her great Aunt Louise (Nieman)
Butler,
March-
From Here to Eternity won the academy award for best picture, and Best Director, Zinneman.
03: Elizabeth "Becky"
Morrison
born (aka Mrs. Dale Claussen)
05: Josef Stalin and Queen Mary(1897-1953) of England died.
08: Sara was baptised at Saint Michael's Church by Rev. Benton Thurmond. Edwin
Henry and Frances Haidusek were her godparents.
Charlotte Louise "Shorty"
Janecka
born on this day to Albert and Maryann Janecka.
11: Grandpa Rob Gray (1896-1963)'s 57th birthday.
17: Patrick Henry Haidusek (1952-)'s first birthday in Weimar, Texas.
Jeffrey Carter (1952-) was born to Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter of Plains, Georgia.
22: Aunt Annie Nieman (1883-)'s 70th birthday.
April-
May-
June-
5: Lionel Gray (1935-)'s 18th birthday;
16: Grandma Sadie Gray (1896-)'s 57th birthday
18: Dale Claussen (1952-)'s first birthday.
19: Fred Niemann (1909-)'s 44th birthday
July-
4: Gray Family goes to a barbecue with Haiduseks, Hudeces, and Hegers at Oncken's Farm. Agnes (Heger) Oncken is the sister of Frances (Heger) Haidusek.
17: Cecilia Gray, 11 birthday
August-
30: Ceil and Bob Gray's 12th wedding anniversary.
September-
Central Catholic High School boys move to the new Assumption
8: Sandra "Sandy"
Haidusek born to EH & Frances. John F Kennedy married Jacquiline Bouvier in Mass. James MacIntyre became a Cardinal. Bob Hope gave the address in Los Angeles.
11: Mrs. Cecilia Gray 33rd birthday.
28: Edwin Powell Hubble (born on November 20, 1889, in Marshfield, Missouri-died of a heart attack on September 28, 1953)
October-
01: Ken Halbrook born to Maryann(Claussen) & Ken Hallbrook, Sr.
November-
19: John
Barta
born to Edwin and Mary Barta.
December-
27: Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, Irish-American Nobel Prize winning dramatist of Mourning Becomes Electra, etc. died.
4: Mr. Robert Gray, 36th birthday
8: Pope Pius XII proclaims a Marian Year from Dec 8, 1953-54, on this the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of St. Mary, Mother of Jesus.
Sarah and William Niemann, parents of Ceil, visit her Gray Family in Weimar.
25: Friday, Christmas.