Number-one song in the charts today |
|
In the USA:
"Tammy" by Debbie Reynolds
In the UK:
"All Shook Up" by Elvis Presley
|
TIME Magazine cover this week |
|
TIME Magazine: Althea Gibson
(TIME Cover: August the 26th, 1957)
|
Famous people born on the 29th of August: |
1632 - John Locke, English philosopher (d. 1704)
1780 - Jean Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)
1844 - Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929
1915 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
1920 - Charlie Parker, American musician (d. 1955)
1923 - Richard Attenborough, English film director
1958 - Michael Jackson, American singer
|
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1957 |
|
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
|
|
|
|
|
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)
|
Designed in 1957 |
The Wall clock, model 2237
by George Nelson |
|