* 1947 – Dorothy Lyman, American actress

* Dorothy L. Sayers, essay, " The Lost Tools of Learning ", presented at Oxford, 1947.

He played a Bible-reading pastor in the multi-story A Miracle Can Happen ( 1947 ), but his piece wound up being cut and replaced with another featuring Dorothy Lamour, and in this form the film was retitled as On Our Merry Way.

Lamour was the heroine of a novel, Dorothy Lamour and the Haunted Lighthouse ( 1947, by Matilda Bailey ), where " the heroine has the same name and appearance as the famous actress but has no connection ... it is as though the famous actress has stepped into an alternate reality in which she is an ordinary person.

Brent also played opposite Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street ( 1933 ), Greta Garbo in The Painted Veil ( 1934 ), Ginger Rogers in In Person ( 1935 ), Madeleine Carroll in The Case Against Mrs. Ames ( 1936 ), Jean Arthur in More Than a Secretary ( 1936 ), Myrna Loy in Stamboul Quest ( 1934 ) and The Rains Came ( 1939 ), Merle Oberon in ' Til We Meet Again ( 1940 ), Ann Sheridan in Honeymoon for Three ( 1941 ), Joan Fontaine in The Affairs of Susan ( 1945 ), Barbara Stanwyck in The Purchase Price ( 1932 ), Baby Face ( 1933 ), The Gay Sisters ( 1942 ) and My Reputation ( 1946 ), Claudette Colbert in Tomorrow Is Forever ( 1946 ), Dorothy McGuire in The Spiral Staircase ( 1946 ), Lucille Ball in Lover Come Back ( 1946 ) and Yvonne De Carlo in Slave Girl ( 1947 ).

The script was adapted by Edmund North from the 1947 novel In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes.

In a Lonely Place was based on Dorothy B. Hughes ' 1947 novel of the same title.

Columnist Hedda Hopper reported in a June 1947 column that Mary Pickford was suing Dorothy Hart for a sum of $ 79, 000 because the young actress refused to accept a role in the film There Goes Lona Henry.

From the time of Nkrumah's return to the Gold Coast in 1947 to lead the independence movement there, Padmore advised him in long detailed letters, wrote dozens of articles for Nkrumah's newspaper, the Accra Evening News, wrote a history of The Gold Coast Revolution ( 1953 ), and, with Dorothy Pizer, encouraged Nkrumah to write his own autobiography, which he did, publishing it in 1957, the year the Gold Coast became independent Ghana.

Dorothy Lyman ( born April 18, 1947 ) is an American television actress, director and producer.

Dorothy J. Tillman ( born May 12, 1947 ) is a former Chicago alderman in the 3rd Ward ( map ).

La Jolla Playhouse was founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, and Mel Ferrer.

* Annie Get Your Gun, 1946 Broadway, 1947 London, ml Irving Berlin, b Herbert and Dorothy Fields ( 1, 147: 1, 304 in London ) ( Berlin wrote the songs when Jerome Kern died suddenly )

He married Dorothy Mabel Jackson in 1944 and in 1947 they had a son, Peter.

Garet Garrett was married three times: to Bessie Hamilton in 1900, to Ida Irvin in 1908, and to Dorothy Williams Goulet in 1947.

She met Dorothy Maclean while the two were working as secretaries in London in the early 1940s., and met Peter Caddy on a train in England in 1947 and married 1948.

* Poems for Men ( Poems ; 1947 )

His first book, The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems, appeared in 1947.

He was first published as a poet in 1947 with Mumei-shishū (" Poems of an unknown poet ") and as a novelist the following year with Owarishi michi no shirube ni (" The Road Sign at the End of the Street "), which established his reputation.

* Poetry: Twenty-three Poems ( 1931 ); Under the eyelid ( 1935 ); Reflexions ( 1947 ); Collected Poems ( 1956 ); The Rose in the Tree ( 1964 ); The Clock ( 1973 ); On a Ledge ( 1992 ).

( 1946 ); “ Essentials for Nigeria ’ s Survival .” ( 1965 ); “ Before Us Lies The Open Grave ” ( 1947 ); “ The Future of Pan-Africanism ” ( 1961 ); “ The Realities of African Unity ” ( 1965 ); “ Origins of the Nigerian Civil War ” ( 1969 ); I Believe in a One Nigeria ( 1969 ); Peace Proposals for Ending the Nigerian Civil War ( 1969 ); Dialogue on a New Capital for Nigeria ( 1974 ); “ Creation of More States in Nigeria, A Political Analysis ” ( 1974 ); Democracy with Military Vigilance ( 1974 ); “ Reorientation of Nigerian Ideologies: lecture on 9 December 1976, on eve of the launching of the UNN Endowment Fund ” ( 1976 ); Our Struggle for Freedom ; Onitsha Market Crisis ( 1976 ); Let Us Forgive Our Children, An appeal to the leaders and people of Onitsha during the market crisis ( 1976 ); A Collection of Poems ( 1977 ); Civil War Soliloquies: More Collection of Poems ( 1977 ); “ Themes in African Social and Political Thought ” ( 1978 ); Restoration of Nigerian Democracy ( 1978 ); Matchless Past Performance: My Reply to Chief Awolowo ’ s Challenge ( 1979 ); A Matter of Conscience ( 1979 ); Ideology for Nigeria: Capitalism, Socialism or Welfarism?

* Poems, 1920-1945, 1947.

There are translations into English verse by the seventeenth-century poet Thomas Stanley ( 1651 ); by the an eighteenth-century " graveyard school " poet Thomas Parnell ( 1679-1718 ); by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by " Q "; by F. L. Lucas ( 1939 ; reprinted in his Aphrodite, Cambridge, 1948 ); and by Allen Tate ( 1947 ; see his Collected Poems ).

His later poetry — darkening in social satire, reformatory zeal against capitalism and organized religion, and despair over the war — was published as Í byggðum ( 1933 ; “ Among Human Habitations ”), Að norðan ( 1936 ; “ From the North ”), Ný kvæðabók ( 1947 ; “ A New Book of Poems ”), and the posthumous Síðustu ljóð ( 1966 ; “ Last Poems ”).

The twelve poems that comprise this section of the epic work have been translated into English regularly since even before its initial publication in Spanish in 1950, beginning with a 1948 translation by Hoffman Reynolds Hays in The Tiger's Eye, a journal of arts and literature published out of New York from 1947 – 1949, and followed closely by a translation by Waldeen in 1950 in a pamphlet called Let the Rail Splitter Awake and Other Poems for a Marxist publishing house in New York.

* Ten Selected Poems, Toronto: Macmillan, 1947

His five volumes of poetry were: 38 Poems ( London: Fortune Press, ), then by Faber & Faber ; Invitation and Warning 1942 ; The Black Seasons 1945 ; The Haunted Garden 1947 ; and The Exiles 1952.

* Collected Poems ( 1947 )

Love Poems, written with his wife Claire, appeared in 1947.

After having her institutionalized, Kees divorced her around the time that his last book appeared, Poems, 1947 – 1954 ( San Francisco, Adrian Wilson, 1954 ).

* Unpublished Poems, edited by James Devaney, Angus and Robertson, 1947.

* The Singing Rose and Other Poems ( Edmund Ward 1947 )

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

In 1947 and 1948 the necessity of massive coordinated efforts to achieve economic recovery led to the formation of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation to supervise and coordinate the uses of American aid under the Marshall Plan.

Though the number of people flowing in and out of our metropolitan areas each day has increased tremendously since World War 2,, total annual rail commutation dropped 124 million for 1947 to 1957.

The Fisher Body division, long controlled by the Fisher brothers under a voting trust even though General Motors owned a majority of its stock, followed an independent course for many years, but by 1947 and 1948 `` resistance had collapsed '' and its purchases from Du Pont `` compared favorably '' with purchases by other General Motors divisions.

Pakistan was created in 1947 expressly as a Muslim state, but when the army took over eleven years later it did so on a wave of mass impatience which was directed in part against the inability of political and religious leaders to think their way through to the meaning of Islam for the modern political situation.

* 1947 – The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.

His father, Julius Mathison Turing ( 1873 – 1947 ), was a member of an old aristocratic family of Scottish descent who worked for the Indian Civil Service ( the ICS ).

In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

He taught at the University of Chicago from 1947 to 1958, before spending the remainder of his career at the Institute for Advanced Study.

He won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1947 for Cartoonist of the Year, and their 1979 Elzie Segar Award ( posthumously ) for his " unique and outstanding contribution to the profession of cartooning.

Li ' l Abner was censored for the first, but not the last time in September 1947, and was pulled from papers by Scripps-Howard.

Capp received the National Cartoonists Society's Billy DeBeck Memorial Award in 1947 for Cartoonist of the Year.

* Goldstine, Herman H., and von Neumann, John, " Planning and Coding of the Problems for an Electronic Computing Instrument ", Rep. 1947, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

In 1947, Bardot was accepted to the Conservatoire de Paris, and for three years she attended the ballet classes of Russian choreographer Boris Knyazev.

One award was presented for both leagues in 1947 and 1948 ; since 1949, the honor has been given to one player each in the National and American League.

Gerty Cori and Carl Cori jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Nobel Prize in 1947 for their discovery of the Cori cycle at RPMI.

The British wrested control of the city from the Ottomans during World War I and it was to be included in an international zone under the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.

The passenger-miles figure, after being flat from 1965 – 1995, surpassed the 1947 figure for the first time in 1998 and continues to rise steeply.

Bartók's music reflects two trends that dramatically changed the sound of music in the 20th century: the breakdown of the diatonic system of harmony that had served composers for the previous two hundred years ( Griffiths 1978, 7 ); and the revival of nationalism as a source for musical inspiration, a trend that began with Mikhail Glinka and Antonín Dvořák in the last half of the 19th century ( Einstein 1947, 332 ).

Pasternak gave his lover a book of Petőfi with the inscription, " Petőfi served as a code in May and June 1947, and my close translations of his lyrics are an expression, adapted to the requirements of the text, of my feelings and thoughts for you and about you.

On the morning of March 12, 1947, President Harry S. Truman appeared before Congress to ask for $ 400 million of aid to Greece and Turkey.

The Electricity Act 1947 introduced better retirement benefits for workers in that industry, and a Workers ’ Compensation ( Supplementation ) Act was passed in 1948 that introduced benefits for workers with certain asbestos-related diseases which had occurred before 1948.