Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Mr. Sandman" by The Chordettes
In the UK:
"Let's Have Another Party" by Winifred Atwell
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Joao Cafe Filho
(TIME Cover: December the 6th, 1954)
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Famous people born on the 15th of December: |
37 - Nero, Roman Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (d. 68)
1859 - L. L. Zamenhof, Russian initiator of Esperanto (d. 1917)
1912 - Ray Eames, American designer (d. 1988)
1939 - Cindy Birdsong, American singer (The Supremes)
1949 - Don Johnson, American actor
1955 - Paul Simonon, British musician (The Clash)
1973 - Surya Bonaly, French-born American figure skater
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 |
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Ernest Miller Hemingway
1899-1961
for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style
USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1954 |
On the Waterfront
directed by Elia Kazan
with Marlon Brando (Terry Malloy) and Eva Marie Saint (Edie Doyle)
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Designed in 1954 |
The Butterfly stool
by Sori Yanagi |
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