Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear/Loving You" by Elvis Presley
In the UK:
"All Shook Up" by Elvis Presley
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Nikita Khrushchev
(TIME Cover: July the 22nd, 1957)
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Famous people born on the 25th of July: |
1109 - Afonso I of Portugal (d. 1185)
1562 - Kiyomasa Kato, Japanese warlord (d. 1611)
1870 - Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966)
1901 - Lila Lee, American actress (d. 1973)
1946 - Rita Marley, Jamaican-Cuban singer
1967 - Matt LeBlanc, 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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