Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Too Much/Playing For Keeps" by Elvis Presley
In the UK:
"Singing The Blues (tied for one week)" by Guy Mitchell
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Lenoard Bernstein
(TIME Cover: February the 4th, 1957)
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Famous people born on the 10th of February: |
1890 - Boris Pasternak, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1960)
1898 - Bertolt Brecht, German author (d. 1956)
1910 - Georges Pire, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969)
1929 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (d. 2004)
1930 - Robert Wagner, American actor
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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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