1958: The Year Aunt Ruth Turned 18

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Across
  1. 2. This was the #1 song on the Billboard charts (hint: “fly”)
  2. 5. This local publication relocated to Dorchester, the last newspaper to leave Newspaper Row
  3. 6. This popular 1950’s slang meant “to make a run for it,” but it's more fun to say
  4. 8. This was the most popular TV series that year
  5. 9. This game, popular in 1958, was invented by a Canadian couple who introduced it as an activity to play with friends aboard their yacht
  6. 12. This actor took home the Best Actor award in the Academy Awards for "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
  7. 14. This team from St. Louis, who I never heard of, beat the Celtics to win the 1958 NBA championship
Down
  1. 1. This team from Baltimore won the NFL championship in double-overtime, in what would later be called “the Greatest (football) Game Ever"
  2. 3. This golfer, for whom a classic summer drink would later be named, won his first of four Masters championships
  3. 4. Eisenhower was president. This was his Vice President
  4. 7. The average US gas price was this many cents per gallon
  5. 10. He had more songs (3) on the 1958 Top Ten list, more than any other artist
  6. 11. The Supreme Court unanimously upheld required school integration which this town in Arkansas had refused to do
  7. 13. He became Premier of the Soviet Union