Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes" by Perry Como
In the UK:
"Here In My Heart" by Al Martino
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Thornton Wilder
(TIME Cover: January the 12th, 1953)
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Famous people born on the 14th of January: |
1702 - Nakamikado Emperor of Japan (d. 1737)
1836 - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (d. 1904)
1861 - Mehmed VI, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1926)
1875 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
1941 - Faye Dunaway, American actress
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1953 |
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
1874-1965
for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values
United Kingdom
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1953 |
From Here to Eternity
directed by Fred Zinnemann
with Montgomery Clift (Robert E. Lee Prewitt), Burt Lancaster (Sgt. Milton Warden) and Frank Sinatra (Angelo Maggio)
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Designed in 1953 |
The FJ 53 reading chair
by Finn Juhl |
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