Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Sh-Boom" by The Crew-Cuts
In the UK:
"Three Coins In The Fountain" by Frank Sinatra
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Clement Attlee
(TIME Cover: September the 20th, 1954)
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Famous people born on the 20th of September: |
1853 - Chulalongkorn, Rama V, King of Thailand (d. 1910)
1873 - Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director (d. 1949)
1925 - Ananda Mahidol, King of Thailand (d. 1946)
1934 - Sophia Loren, Italian actress
1941 - Dale Chihuly, American glass artist
1975 - Asia Argento, Italian actress
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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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