Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"The Doggie in the Window" by Patti Page
In the UK:
"She Wears Red Feathers" by Guy Mitchell
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Gregory M. Malenkov
(TIME Cover: March the 23rd, 1953)
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Famous people born on the 26th of March: |
1868 - King Fuad I of Egypt (d. 1936)
1925 - Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor
1935 - Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine National Authority
1944 - Diana Ross, American singer (Supremes)
1949 - Patrick Süskind, German writer
1963 - Roch Voisine, Canadian singer andsongwriter
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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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