Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong plays for his wife in front of the Sphinx by the pyramids in Giza, 1961

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Paris Blues

Diahann Carroll and Sidney Poitier in Paris Blues, 1961. 

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Troy Donahue

Troy Donahue (January 27, 1936 – September 2, 2001) was an American actor and a journalism student at Columbia University when he began playing in stock productions. He made his film debut in Man Afraid and in 1959 signed as a contract player with Warner Bros., which promoted him to stardom with A Summer Place that year. His most successful film was  (1961), in which he played the title character.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy

President Kennedy with his children, Caroline and John Jr. in the Oval Office of the White House on October 10th, 1962. (Cecil Stoughton, White House / John F. Kennedy Library)

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. In the 1952 election, he defeated incumbent Republican Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. for the U.S. Senate seat. The following year he was married to Jacqueline. John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th President at noon on January 20, 1961. In his inaugural address he spoke of the need for all Americans to be active citizens, famously saying, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." He asked the nations of the world to join together to fight what he called the "common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself". He added: "All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin."

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Nadezhda Rumyantseva

Nadezhda Vasilyevna Rumyantseva (sometimes spelled Rumiantseva), (September 9, 1930 - April 8, 2008) was a Soviet/Russian theatrical and cinema actress. Best known as Tosya Kislitsina in 1961 film Devchata and voicing a lot of Soviet cartoons.

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