November 29th, 1947

November 29th, 1947...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Near You" by Francis Craig

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: S. Morrison

(TIME Cover: November the 24th, 1947)

Famous people born on the 29th of November:

1427 - Zhengtong, Emperor of China (d. 1464)
1825 - Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (d. 1893)
1895 - Busby Berkeley, American film director, and choreographer (d. 1976)
1932 - Jacques Chirac, President of France
1953 - Alex Grey, American artist
1954 - Joel Coen, American film director, producer, and writer
1958 - Michael Dempsey, American musician (The Cure)

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1947

André Paul Guillaume Gide
1869-1951

for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight

France

Photo: nobelprize.org

Oscar of the best picture in 1947

Gentleman's Agreement
directed by Elia Kazan
with Gregory Peck (Phil Green) and Dorothy McGuire (Kathy)

Designed in 1947

The Daybed
by Richard Stein

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