Number-one song in the charts today |
|
In the USA:
"Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes" by Perry Como
In the UK:
"Comes A-Long A-Love" by Kay Starr
|
TIME Magazine cover this week |
|
TIME Magazine: George Humphrey
(TIME Cover: January the 26th, 1953)
|
Famous people born on the 27th of January: |
1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791)
1832 - Lewis Carroll, English author (d. 1898)
1850 - Edward J. Smith, English captain of the Titanic (d. 1912)
1859 - Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany (d. 1941)
1944 - Nick Mason, English musician (Pink Floyd)
1961 - Gillian Gilbert, British musician (New Order)
|
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1953 |
|
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
|
|
|
|
|
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)
|
Designed in 1953 |
The FJ 53 reading chair
by Finn Juhl |
|