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September 12th, 1954...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Sh-Boom"
by The Crew-Cuts

In the UK:
"Little Things Mean A Lot"
by Kitty Kallen
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Archbishop Fisher

(TIME Cover: September the 6th, 1954)

 Famous people born on the 12th of September:

1492 - Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (d. 1519)
1494 - King Francis I of France (d. 1547)
1888 - Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor (d. 1972)
1897 - Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1956)
1931 - Sir Ian Holm, English actor
1944 - Barry White, American singer (d. 2003)
1968 - Ler LaLonde, American Guitarist (Primus)

 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954


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


     
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)

Designed in 1954

The Butterfly stool
by Sori Yanagi

 
 
 
     

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