Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Managua, Nicaragua" by Freddy Martin
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: George C. Marshall
(TIME Cover: March the 10th, 1947)
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Famous people born on the 11th of March: |
1725 - Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807)
1899 - Frederick IX of Denmark (d. 1972), Danish King
1920 - Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1931 - Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born publisher and entrepreneur
1955 - Nina Hagen, German 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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