; Movies : The Apartment, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine; Elmer Gantry,starring Burt Lancaster and Jean Simmons; Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman; Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anthony Perkins; Spartacus,directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Peter Ustinov, and Jean Simmons. ; Fiction : John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor; E. L. Doctorow, Welcome to Hard Times; John Hersey, The Child Buyer; Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird; Flannery O'Connor, The Violent Bear It Away; John O'Hara, Sermons and Soda-Water; John Updike, Rabbit, Run. ; Popular : Songs Paul Anka, "Puppy Love"; Ray Charles, "Georgia on My Mind"; Chubby Checker, "The Twist"; Elvis Presley, "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" and "It's Now or Never"; Johnny Preston, "Running Bear." * The second annual Photography in the Fine Arts Project is held at the IBM Gallery in New York; it is twice as big and occupies three times as much space as the original. * Leslie Fiedler's controversial Love and Death in the American Novel quickly becomes one of the best-known books in the history of American literary criticism. * Astounding Science Fiction, one of the most popular science-fiction magazines since the 1930s, changes its name to Analog. ; 3 Jan. : The Moscow State Symphony begins a successful seven-week tour of the United States at Carnegie Hall in New York. It is the first Soviet orchestra to perform in the United States. ; Mar : Seven of the eight major film studios are crippled by an actors' strike. ; 4 Mar. : Baritone Leonard Warren collapses and dies during a performance of Laforza del destino at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. ; 16 Mar. : The merger of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and Random House, Inc., is completed, with Random in control. ; 3 July : The city council of Newport, Rhode Island, votes to cancel remaining performances at the annual Newport Jazz Festival due to riots led by drunken high-school and college students. ; 2 Nov. : Dimitri Mitropoulos collapses and dies while conducting at La Scala Opera House in Milan, Italy. ; Movies : The Absent-Minded Professor, starring Fred MacMurray; Breakfast at Tiffany's, starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard; El Cid, starring Charlton Heston; The Hustler, starring Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason; Judgment at Nuremberg,starring Montgomery Clift; The Misfits, directed by John Huston and starring Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe; 101 Dalmatians, Disney animation; Splendor in the Grass,directed by Elia Kazan and starring Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty; West Side Story, starring Richard Beymer and Natalie Wood. ; Fiction : John Hawkes, The Lime Twig; Joseph Heller, Catch-22; John O'Hara, Assembly; Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land; Walker Percy, The Moviegoer; J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey; Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Spinoza of Market Street; John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent. ; Popular : Songs Ray Charles, "Hit the Road, Jack"; Jimmy Dean, "Big Bad John"; Dion, "Run-around Sue"; the Kingston Trio, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?"; the Marvelettes, "Please, Mr. Postman"; Roy Orbison, "Cryin' "; the Shirelles, "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?"; the Tokens, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." * The Museum of Modern Art holds a retrospective exhibit of the work of Mark Rothko. * Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Landbecomes the first science-fiction novel to appear on The New York Times best-seller list. ; 27 Jan. : Soprano Leontyne Price first performs at the New York Metropolitan Opera. ; 29 July : Ten paintings worth $300,000 are stolen from the private collection of G. David Thompson of Pittsburgh; others (including a Picasso) are damaged. ; 28 Aug. : A contract dispute concerning the musicians at the Metropolitan Opera in New York is settled when the musicians and the company agree to abide by binding arbitration by Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg. ; 13 Nov. : Cellist Pablo Casals performs at a White House dinner honoring Puerto Rican governor Luis Muñoz Marìn. ; Movies : The Birdman of Alcatraz, starring Burt Lancaster; Days of Wine and Roses, star-ring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick; Dr. No, starring Sean Connery; Lawrence of Arabia, directed by David Lean and starring Peter O'Toole; Lolita, directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring James Mason; The Manchurian Candidate, starring Laurence Harvey, Frank Sinatra, and Angela Lansbury; The Music Man, starring Robert Preston and Shirley Jones; Mutiny on the Bounty,starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard; To Kill a Mockingbird, starring Gregory Peck; What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, starring Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. ; Fiction : James Baldwin, Another Country; William S. Burroughs, The Ticket That Exploded; Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire;Katherine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools; Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Slave; Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Mother Night. ; Popular : Songs Tony Bennett, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco"; Gene Chandler, "Duke of Earl"; Ray Charles, "I Can't Stop Loving You"; the Four Seasons, "Big Girls Don't Cry" and "Sherry"; Little Eva, "The Loco-Motion"; Bobby "Boris" Pickett, "The Monster Mash"; Elvis Presley, "Return to Sender"; Neil Sedaka, "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do." * William S. Burroughs's novel Naked Lunch (1959), initially published in Paris, is published in America for the first time. * After the death of Clara Langhorne Clemens Samossoud, the last surviving child of Mark Twain, his antireligious Letters from the Earth is published for the first time, as a book edited by Bernard De Voto. ; 30 May : Benny Goodman begins a six-week tour of Russia in Moscow arranged by the U.S. State Department. Some jazz aficionados feel a more respected all-around musician such as Duke Ellington should represent America, while others think a younger, more "modern" musician would be more appropriate. ; 25 Sept. : Philharmonic Hall, the first completed building of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York, is inaugurated by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy is guest of honor. ; 25 Oct. : John Steinbeck is announced as the 1962 recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature. ; 12 Dec. : French minister of culture Andre Malraux announces that France will loan the United States Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa for a short period for an American touring exhibit. ; Movies : The Birds, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Tippi Hedren; Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton; Hud, starring Paul Newman; Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, directed by Stanley Kramer; Lilies of the Field, star-ring Sidney Pokier; The Nutty Professor, starring Jerry Lewis; Tom Jones,starring Albert Finney. ; Fiction : Mary McCarthy, The Group; Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar; Thomas Pynchon, V.; J. D. Salinger, Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters, and Seymour: An Introduction; Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle. ; Popular : Songs The Angels, "My Boyfriend's Back"; the Beach Boys, "Surfin' U.S.A."; Johnny Cash, "Ring of Fire"; the Chiffons, "He's So Fine" and "One Fine Day"; the Crystals, "Then He Kissed Me"; the Four Seasons, "Walk Like a Man"; Leslie Gore, "It's My Party"; the Kingsmen, "Louie, Louie"; Steve Lawrence, "Go Away, Little Girl"; Peter, Paul and Mary, "Blowin' in the Wind" and "Puff, the Magic Dragon"; the Singing Nun, "Dominique"; Bobby Vinton, "Blue Velvet." * John Cleland's erotic eighteenth-century-style novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, better known as Fanny Hill, is banned in several cities, but the courts declare it not to be obscene. Meanwhile, a bookseller in New Or-leans is arrested for selling James Baldwin's novel Another Country. * A member of the New York Public Library board of trustees borrows and burns the children's book My Mother Is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, Rebecca Reyher's retelling of a Russian folktale, because the book contains passages "favorable to Russia." He is suspended from the board for six weeks or until he replaces the book. * Andrew Wyeth becomes the first painter to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. ; 8 Jan. : Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is shown at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the first time the painting has ever appeared outside the Louvre in Paris. During its three-and-a-half-week stay it attracts 500,000 visitors. When the painting moves to New York, 23,872 people show up on a rainy day to see it. ; 7 May : The Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, the first major regional theater in the Midwest, opens. ; Movies : Becket, starring Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole; Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, and Slim Pickens; Goldfinger, starring Sean Connery; Mary Poppins, starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke; My Fair Lady, starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn; Zorba the Greek, starring Anthony Quinn. ; Fiction : Saul Bellow, Herzog; Thomas Berger, Little Big Man; Richard Brautigan, A Confederate General from Big Sur; William S. Burroughs, Nova Express; James Gould Cozzens, Children and Others; John Hawkes, Second Skin. ; Popular : Songs The Animals, "The House of the Rising Sun"; Louis Armstrong, "Hello, Dolly!"; the Beach Boys, "Fun, Fun, Fun" and "I Get Around"; the Beatles, "Can't Buy Me Love," "A Hard Day's Night," "I Feel Fine," "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "She Loves You," and "Twist and Shout"; Manfred Mann, "Do Wah Diddy Diddy"; Martha and the Vandellas, "Dancing in the Street"; Dean Martin, "Everybody Loves Somebody"; Roy Orbison, "Pretty Woman"; the Temptations, "The Way You Do the Things You Do"; Mary Wells, "My Guy." * AMoveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway's memoirs of his early years in Paris, is published. * After three years of court battles in various states, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that Henry Miller's novel Tropic of Cancer is not obscene. * The Deputy, by German playwright Rolf Hochhuth, is picketed at its New York performance by Catholics outraged at its suggestion that Pope Pius XII had tacitly allowed the Nazis to commit genocide during World War II. ; 28 Feb. : Jazz pianist Thelonious Monk is featured in a cover story in Time magazine. ; May : After remodeling, the Museum of Modern Art reopens with a new gallery, named the Steichen Photography Center after Edward Steichen, its photography department director from 1947 to 1962.

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