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:
"Gamblin' Man / Putting On The Style" by Lonnie Donegan
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Birdie Tebbetts
(TIME Cover: July the 8th, 1957)
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Famous people born on the 8th of July: |
1621 - Jean de la Fontaine, French writer (d. 1695)
1839 - John D. Rockefeller, American businessman (d. 1937)
1935 - Vitali Sevastyanov, cosmonaut
1951 - Anjelica Huston, American actress
1970 - Beck, American singer
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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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