1952 Entertainment

Academy Awards

Best Movie: "Greatest Show on Earth"

Best Actor: Gary Cooper ("High Noon")

Best Actress: Shirley Booth ("Come Back Little Sheba")

TV Ratings

1. "I Love Lucy"

2. "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts"

Billboard Ratings [Hits]

1. "Blue Tango" Leroy Anderson

2. "Wheel of Fortune" Kay Starr

3. "Cry" Johnnie Ray

Fiction

1. The Silver Chalice Thomas B. Costain

2. The Caine Mutiny Herman Wouk

3. East of Eden John Steinbeck

4. My Cousin Rachel Daphne du Maurier

5. Steamboat Gothic Frances Parkinson Keyes

6. Giant Edna Ferber

7. The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway

8. The Gown of Glory Agnes Sligh Turnbull

9. The Saracen Blade Frank Yerby

10. The Houses in Between Howard Spring

Miss America: Colleen Kay Hutchins (Miss Utah)