The World's Largest Gummy Bear is the lion of the candy world. There is no candy more magnificent or more powerful. This five-pound beast is the equivalent of 1,400 regular sized gummy bears and packs a whopping 6,120 calories.
Modeled after Life but intended for an emerging black middle class, the magazine is an instant success. This same year, Nat King Cole becomes the first black with his own network radio show. Cole is also the first black with his own network TV show, The Nat King Cole Show (1956). Jackie Robinson plays baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers, the first black in the major leagues in the modern era. In 1962 he was the first black inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Harry Belafonte becomes the first black man to win an Emmy, which he gets for outstanding performance in a variety or music program or series. The number of awards is cut from 43 in 1959 to a more manageable 23, in a dual ceremony held at NBCâs Burbank studios and the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York.