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In the USA:
"Love Letters In the Sand/Bernardine" by Pat Boone
In the UK:
"Yes Tonight Josephine" by Johnnie Ray
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Henry Heald
(TIME Cover: June the 10th, 1957)
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Famous people born on the 15th of June: |
1330 - Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales (d. 1376)
1594 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter (d. 1665)
1914 - Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (d. 1984
1943 - Johnny Hallyday, French singer and actor
1946 - Demis Roussos, Greek singer
1964 - Courteney Cox, American actress
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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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