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.
Lester Holt to be first African-American solo anchor of a weekday network nightly newscast. FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2014 file photo, Lester Holt attends the New York premiere of Nightcrawler in New York. While Lester Holt's ascension to full-time anchor of NBC's Nightly News came as a result of Brian Williams' stunning downfall, no one can say he hasn't worked hard to take advantage of an opportunity. The California-born Holt becomes the first African-American to be sole anchor of a network evening newscast. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)