Fall: Curt Valentin publishes Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes, with eighty-five drawings by Calder and edited by Sweeney. (CF, project file)

28 November-23 December: The exhibition "Recent Work by Alexander Calder" at the Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, New York, includes plaster and bronze sculptures and the drawings for Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes. (CF, exhibition file)

Before 25 December: After complaining to Calder that she has nothing to wear to the upcoming Vassar College Christmas party, Calder crafts for Clafin a tiara he dubs the "Fire Proof Veil." The headpiece is constructed of a series of sheet metal letters, "A, R, V, C, P, N, Y," each dangling from their own wire attached to a central headband. The letters stand for "Agnes Rindge Vassar College Poughkeepsie New York" and are designed to hang in front of the wearer's face. (CF, object file)

6 January: Calder's father dies in Brooklyn. Calder and Louisa leave their daughters in the care of the Massons and bury Stirling in Philadelphia. (ASCR, conversation with Mary Calder Rower, 16 November 1997)

March: Calder works on sketches for costumes and scenery for the dance project Billy Sunday, composed by Remi Gassman. The project, intended for the University of Chicago, is never produced. (AAA, Calder to Warner, 6 March; AAA, Calder to Warner, 2 April)

1 June: Commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, to make a work for the sculpture garden, Calder creates Man-Eater with Pennants . (AAA, Calder to Warner, 1 June)

Fall: Calder produces a series of small-scale works, many from scraps trimmed during the making of other objects. Duchamp arranges for Calder to exhibit these pieces at Galerie Louis Carre in Paris. Intrigued by the limitations on parcel size imposed by the U.S. Postal Service, Calder creates larger, collapsible works to be reassembled on arrival in Paris. visits the Roxbury studio and discovers a whole series of miniature sculptures. Let's mail these little objects to Carre, in Paris, he suggests, and have a show. (Calder 1966, 188; CF, exhibition file)

Fall: Andre Masson brings French author and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre to visit Calder in Roxbury. When Sartre visits Calder again at his studio in New York, the artist gives him Peacock, a mobile whose elements are cut from flattened Connecticut license plates. (Calder 1966, 188-189)

13 November-1 December: Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, New York, presents "Alexander Calder." (CF, exhibition file)