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In the USA:
"You Send Me/Summertime, Pt. 1" by Sam Cooke
In the UK:
"Mary's Boy Child" by Harry Belafonte
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Senator John Kennedy
(TIME Cover: December the 2nd, 1957)
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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 1957 |
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Albert Camus
1913-1960
for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times
France
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1957 |
The Bridge on the River Kwai
directed by David Lean
with Alec Guinness (Colonel Nicholson) and Sessue Hayakawa (Saito)
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Designed in 1957 |
The Wall clock, model 2237
by George Nelson |
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