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In the USA:
"I Went to Your Wedding" by Patti Page
In the UK:
"The Homing Waltz" by Vera Lynn & Alma Cogan
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Joyce Cary
(TIME Cover: October the 20th, 1952)
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Famous people born on the 24th of October: |
51 - Domitian, Roman Emperor (d. 96)
1503 - Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany, wife of Charles I of Spain
1901 - Gilda Gray, Polish-born American actress and dancer (d. 1959)
1915 - Bob Kane, American cartoonist (d. 1998)
1930 - Sultan Ahmad Shah, King of Malaysia
1932 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1936 - Bill Wyman, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
1940 - Martin Campbell, New Zealand film director
1980 - Monica, American singer
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952 |
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Selman Abraham Waksman
1888-1973
for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis
USA
Rutgers University - New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1952 |
The Greatest Show on Earth
directed by Cecil B. DeMille
with Betty Hutton (Holly) and Charlton Heston (Brad Braden)
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Designed in 1952 |
The Bookcase from the Maison du Mexique
by Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouve, Sonia Delaunay |
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