| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Sh-Boom" by The Crew-Cuts
In the UK:
"Cara Mia" by David Whitfield with Chorus & Mantovani & his Orchestra
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Gina Lollobrigida
(TIME Cover: August the 16th, 1954)
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Famous people born on the 18th of August: |
1414 - Jami, Persian poet (d. 1492)
1750 - Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (d. 1825)
1830 - Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria (d. 1916)
1855 - Alfred Wallis, English artist and mariner (d. 1942)
1933 - Roman Polanski, French-born director and actor
1936 - Robert Redford, American actor and director
1955 - Taher ElGamal, Egyptian scientist
1952 - Patrick Swayze, American actor
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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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