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| 1951 |
| | Elia Kazan directs Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando in the film of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire | |
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| 1951 |
| | German-born US philosopher Hannah Arendt links Hitler's and Stalin's regimes in The Origins of Totalitarianism | |
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| 1951 |
| | Gertrude Lawrence and Yul Brynner open on Broadway in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I | |
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| 1951 |
| | Catcher in the Rye is US author J.D. Salinger's immensely successful first novel | |
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| 1951 |
| | British-Canadian choreographer Celia Franca founds the National Ballet of Canada | |
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| 1951 |
| | US novelist Carson McCullers publishes a collection of stories, The Ballad of the Sad Caf&eacaute; | |
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| 1951 |
| | John Huston directs Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn in The African Queen, based on a C.S. Forester story | |
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| 1951 |
| | The first hydrogen bomb is successfully tested by the US at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands | |
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| 1952 |
| | US boxer Rocky Marciano becomes world heavyweight champion, defeating 'Jersey Joe' Walcott | |
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| 1952 |
| | US author Ralph Ellison publishes his first novel, Invisible Man, a Kafkaesque account of a black immigrant's life in New York | |
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