Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Heartaches" by Ted Weems
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Arnold J. Toynbee
(TIME Cover: March the 17th, 1947)
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Famous people born on the 17th of March: |
1231 - Emperor Shijo of Japan (d. 1242)
1473 - King James IV of Scotland (d. 1513)
1919 - Nat King Cole, American singer (d. 1965)
1930 - James Irwin, astronaut (d. 1991)
1938 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-born dancer and choreographer (d. 1993)
1949 - Patrick Duffy, American actor
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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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