Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)" by Tex Williams
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Jake Kramer
(TIME Cover: September the 1st, 1947)
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Famous people born on the 7th of September: |
1533 - Queen Elizabeth I of England (d. 1603)
1909 - Elia Kazan, Greek-born film director (d. 20
1912 - David Packard, American electrical engineer and businessman (d. 1996)
1930 - King Baudouin I of Belgium (d. 1993)
1936 - Buddy Holly, American singer (d. 1959)
1949 - Gloria Gaynor, American singer
1968 - Marcel Desailly, French footballer
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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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