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In the USA:
"Wheel of Fortune" by Kay Starr
In the UK:
"Unforgettable" by Nat 'King' Cole
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Eddie Stanky
(TIME Cover: April the 28th, 1952)
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Famous people born on the 4th of May: |
1008 - Khajeh Abdollah Ansari The Persian Sufi (d. 1088)
1008 - King Henry I of France (d. 1060)
1654 - Kangxi Emperor of China (d. 1722)
1852 - Alice Pleasance Liddell, English schoolgirl model for Alice in Wonderland (d. 1934)
1929 - Audrey Hepburn, Belgian actress (d. 1993)
1954 - Pia Zadora, American actres
1958 - Keith Haring, American graphical artist (d. 1990)
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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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