1960s Timeline

Dec. 26, 1961 - The film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “Tender is the Night,” with Jennifer Jones and Jason Robards Jr., will open at New York’s Plaza Theatre on Jan. 19, after the current “Something Wild.” It will have its premiére at the Paramount Theatre the previous evening. The story deals with a psychiatrist and his life with a patient he helped recover. #classicmovies #classicmoviestars #Movies #moviestar #movieset #MovieStars #moviescene #moviescenes #moviest

Sept. 13, 1961 - Hitting bookstores today is "Franny and Zooey" by J.D. Salinger. The book comprises his short story "Franny" and novella "Zooey," each of which originally appeared in The New Yorker. The book focuses on siblings Franny and Zooey, the two youngest members of the Glass family. "Franny" tells the story of Franny Glass. Disenchanted with the selfishness and inauthenticity she perceives all around her, she aims to escape it through spiritual means. "Zooey" is set

Aug. 30, 1961 - Ernest Hemingway's widow shipped several boxes of manuscripts to New York today, but said no decision had been made on whether any would be published. She said she considered some of the late Mr. Hemingway’s unpublished works "truly great - among his very best writing." "But I have no right to make the decision," she said. "I am going to follow Ernest's instructions." She said she planned to "go through the mountain of papers to see if he left word that certai

Aug. 24, 1961 - The will of Ernest Hemingway, written in his own hand in stilted legal language, was filed for probate today in New York Surrogates Court. The author, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Ketchum, Idaho, on July 2, left his entire estate to his widow Mary. The estate consists of cash, securities, real estate in this country and abroad, and the copyrights to all his published and unpublished works. It also included original handwritten manu

Aug. 16, 1961 - The Dallas police ordered bookstores in that city today to quit selling the controversial book "Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller or face charges under the state's new anti-obscenity law. Special Service Bureau detectives, with Police Chief Jesse E. Curry's approval, visited major downtown bookstores to issue the warning. Detective Lieut. Frank Cornwall said today that in his opinion the book was obscene. Chief Curry also condemned the book. "It is, in my opin

Aug. 5, 1961 - Antonio Ordóñez, the Spanish matador, a close friend of the late Ernest Hemingway, was seriously gored in a Malaga bullring today. Señor Ordóñez underwent surgery that lasted an hour. A medical bulletin described his condition as grave. The 28-year-old matador, whom Mr. Hemingway portrayed as one of Spain's great bullfighting heroes, was gored when he stepped on the red cloth or "muleta" as he was about to kill his second bull. #books #literature #greatbooks #s

Aug. 5, 1961 - A graduate student at Columbia University has enlisted the aid of a modern electronic computer to solve a problem of ancient Greek literature - was The Iliad composed by one man? He thinks the answer is "yes." James McDonough, who plans to present the study as his doctoral dissertation, said a similar study of The Odyssey might help determine whether the two epics attributed to Homer were actually his work. "I started out neutral," Mr. McDonough said. "But the

Aug. 1, 1961 - The death certificate concerning Ernest Hemingway (pictured in 1935) was filed in Ketchum, Idaho today. It said the author had died of "a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the head." Blaine County Coroner Ray McGoldrick said he had left blank the space that would have shown whether the death was an accident or a suicide. Mr. Hemingway's body was found July 2 in a foyer off the living room of his Ketchum hunting lodge. He had been killed by a blast from both barre

July 27, 1961 - Ernest Hemingway's widow said her husband's unpublished works included some poetry and at least two novels including a major work in the vault of a Havana bank. The writer, who was killed by a self-inflicted gunshot wound on July 2 in Ketchum, Idaho, had earlier described one of the novels as "a big one all about the land, the sea and the air." Carlos Baker, an authority on Hemingway, said that two completed manuscripts are in the hands of Charles Scribner's S

July 22, 1961 - Cuba is going to erect a monument to Ernest Hemingway (pictured meeting Fidel Castro at a Havana fishing tournament in May 1960), the novelist's widow said today. Mrs. Mary Hemingway made the disclosure at Miami International Airport on her way to Cuba from Ketchum, Idaho. "I don't know whether the monument will be a statue, a library or a shrine," she said. Newsmen asked Mrs. Hemingway whether she planned to pick up a Hemingway manuscript said to be in a Cuba

July 7, 1961 - Mrs. Mary Hemingway (left) will meet four newsmen tomorrow morning to "clear up historical inaccuracies" about her late husband. She will talk to representatives of UPI, the AP, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and Time Magazine. The Post-Intellligencer said in a copyrighted dispatch today that Mr. Hemingway had "deliberately ended his own life" early last Sunday. It said it had learned the details "authoritatively," and that Mr. Hemingway had "placed the

July 6, 1961 - Ernest Hemingway (pictured in 1939) was buried today in the soil of the Western mountains he loved near the home where he wrote much of his prize-winning literature. The novelist, short-story writer, and war correspondent, dead at 61 of a self-inflicted shotgun wound, was buried under a blanket of red roses alongside the grave of one of his closest friends, Taylor Williams. The cemetery in which Mr. Hemingway was buried is surrounded by the Saw Tooth Mountains.

July 5, 1961 - The family of Ernest Hemingway (pictured with his father in 1928) was reunited today for the author's funeral tomorrow. Mr. Hemingway will be buried in the cemetery in Ketchum, Idaho. Patrick Hemingway, one of the author's three sons, arrived today from Africa. Two other sons, a brother, and three sisters arrived earlier. Mr. Hemingway's fourth wife, Mary, was at home with him when he killed himself Sunday with a shotgun. The writer's sister, Mrs. Sterlin

July 4, 1961 - Antonio Ordóñez (pictured left in 1959 with Ernest Hemingway) killed two bulls in Jerez De La Frontera, Spain, today in memory of the famed author. Before the fight, the bullfighter walked to the the middle of the ring and, with the crowd, stood silent for one minute in honor of Mr. Hemingway. The matador wept openly over the death of "Ernesto." He said that his tears were justified "because I am sure that Papa Hemingway would have liked this form of pray

July 4, 1961 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline (pictured in 1932), French novelist, whose final years were clouded by wartime collaboration and his violent anti-Semitism, died Saturday. He was 67 years old. Mr. Céline's most widely known books were "Journey to the End of the Night" and "Death on the Installment Plan." Both enjoyed critical and popular success in the U.S. when they were published in English, the former in 1934 and the latter in 1938. When the Nazis occupied Paris

July 3, 1961 - The death of Ernest Hemingway (pictured in 1959) brought tears, shock, and mourning to Madrid today. In the city's cafés and dimly lit bars, the author's friends, admirers, and critics discussed the life and death of the author, who formerly lived in Spain and was known there as "Don Ernesto." The newspaper Hoja de Lunes said in a front-page story that Mr. Hemingway was "a great lover of our country, the bullfights, and Spanish literature." #literature #b

July 3, 1961 - There will be no inquest in the shotgun death of Ernest Hemingway (pictured in 1952), authorities in Blaine County, Idaho, said today. The author was found dead yesterday morning at his home. He had head wounds, and a double-barrel, 12-gauge shotgun lay next to his body. His fourth wife, Mary, stated that his death had been accidental. Sheriff Frank L. Hewitt said Mr. Hemingway had fired both barrels of the 12-gauge shotgun into his head. Coroner Ray McG

July 2, 1961 - President Kennedy mourned today the death of Ernest Hemingway, whom he called one of America's greatest authors and "one of the great citizens of the world." The President, who is spending the July 4th weekend in Hyannis Port, Mass., with his family, issued a statement after hearing of Mr. Hemingway's death: "From his first emergence as one of the bright literary stars in Paris during the twenties, as a chronicler of the "Lost Generation” which he was to

July 2, 1961 - Ernest Hemingway was found dead this morning of a shotgun wound to the head at his home in Ketchum, Idaho. The Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author would have been 62 on July 21. His wife stated that Mr. Hemingway, an expert on firearms, killed himself accidentally while cleaning the weapon. Mr. Hemingway's body, clad in a robe and pajamas, was found by Mrs. Hemingway in the foyer of their house. A double-barreled, 12-gauge shotgun lay beside him. Mrs.