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In the USA:
"Open the Door, Richard!" by Count Basie
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: King George II
(TIME Cover: February the 24th, 1947)
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Famous people born on the 24th of February: |
1103 - Emperor Toba of Japan (d. 1156)
1500 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1558)
1786 - Wilhelm Grimm, German philologist and folklorist (d. 1859)
1955 - Steve Jobs, American computer pioneer
1955 - Alain Prost, French race car driver
1958 - Plastic Bertrand, Belgian singer
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1947 |
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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
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Oscar of the best picture in 1947 |
Gentleman's Agreement
directed by Elia Kazan
with Gregory Peck (Phil Green) and Dorothy McGuire (Kathy)
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Designed in 1947 |
The Daybed
by Richard Stein |
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