Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Rags to Riches" by Tony Bennett
In the UK:
"Answer Me (tied for one week)" by Frankie Laine
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Nikita Khrushchev
(TIME Cover: November the 30th, 1953)
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Famous people born on the 4th of December: |
1849 - Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux chief (d. 1877)
1866 (O.S.) - Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born painter (d. 1944)
1892 - Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain (d. 1975)
1940 - John Cale, Welsh musician (The Velvet Underground)
1944 - Dennis Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (d. 1983)
1963 - Sergei Bubka, Ukrainian pole vaulter
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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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