Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Secret Love" by Doris Day
In the UK:
"Oh Mein Papa" by Eddie Calvert
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Nathan M. Pusey
(TIME Cover: March the 1st, 1954)
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Famous people born on the 3rd of March: |
1455 - King John II of Portugal (d. 1495)
1831 - George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (d. 1897)
1847 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor (d. 1922)
1911 - Jean Harlow, American actress (d. 1937)
1948 - Snowy White, British guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Pink Floyd)
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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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