Moviegoers sized up The Men, Marlon Brando's film debut. Henry Morton Robinson's The Cardinal perched atop the fiction chart, the Weavers hit No. 1 with ''Goodnight, Irene,'' and Sid Caesar showed up in Your Show of Shows.


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