* 1948 – Patrika Darbo, American actress

* 1948 – Marcello Lippi, Italian football coach

* 1948 – Jeremy Beadle, English television host ( d. 2008 )

* 1948 – Joschka Fischer, German politician, Vice Chancellor of Germany

* 1948 – Lois Reeves, American singer ( Martha and the Vandellas )

* 1948 – In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.

* 1870 – Franz Lehár, Austrian composer ( d. 1948 )

* 1948 – Perry King, American actor

* 1948 – Alexander Onassis, American Greek socialite, son of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis ( d. 1973 )

* 1948 – Pierre Pagé, Canadian ice hockey coach and executive

* 1948 – John Mehler, American drummer ( Love Song )

* 1948 – Sgt.

* 1861 – Edith Roosevelt, American wife of Theodore Roosevelt, 27th First Lady of the United States ( d. 1948 )

* 1948 – Bill Campbell, American baseball player

* 1895 – István Barta, Hungarian water polo player ( d. 1948 )

* 1948 – Kathleen Battle, American soprano

* 1948 – Scott Powell, American singer ( Sha Na Na )

In 1948 Australia set new standards, completely outplaying their hosts to win 4 – 0 with one draw.

* 1948 – Andy Fairweather Low, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Amen Corner and Fair Weather )

* 1948 – Dennis Prager, American radio host and author

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

The New Yorker continued to publish the works of the form ’ s leading mid-century practitioners, including Shirley Jackson, whose story, The Lottery, published in 1948, elicited the strongest response in the magazine ’ s history to that time.

Fonda played Wyatt Earp in John Ford's My Darling Clementine ( 1946 ) and appeared in the film Fort Apache ( 1948 ) as a rigid Army colonel, along with John Wayne and Shirley Temple in her first adult role.

* The Story of Shirley Yorke ( 1948 )

" The Lottery " is a short story by Shirley Jackson, first published in the June 26, 1948, issue of The New Yorker.

Many readers demanded an explanation of the situation described in the story, and a month after the initial publication, Shirley Jackson responded in the San Francisco Chronicle ( July 22, 1948 ):

* The Story of Shirley York ( 1948 ), Shirley Yorke

She married second in 1948, Frank Hugh Shirley Fox ; they divorced in 1953.

He married Elizabeth Shirley Vaughan Morgan on 16 October 1948 and they had five children:

She was the 1948 women's singles champion at the French Championships beating Shirley Fry.

Gospel first broke into international audiences in 1948, with the release of Jackson's " Move On Up a Little Higher ", which was so popular it couldn't be shipped to record stores fast enough.

The Damon Runyon Theater radio series dramatized 52 of Runyon's short stories in weekly broadcasts running from October 1948 to September 1949 ( with reruns until 1951 ).

After a short period of Democratic Party administration, Yoshida returned in late 1948 and continued to serve as prime minister until 1954.

In 1946 one of Hughes ' early poems, " Wild West " and a short story were published in the grammar school magazine The Don and Dearne, followed by further poems in 1948.

" The cinematic version of The Basement Room short story, The Fallen Idol ( 1948 ), directed by Carol Reed, replaced novelist Greene's niggers usage with natives.

The women's magazine Damernas Värld sent Lindgren to the USA in 1948 to write short essays.

* The Wheels of If and Other Science Fiction ( 1948 )-early collection of de Camp's short fiction, including " The Wheels of If "

On the other hand, when Scouts were persecuted and forbidden during the German occupation between 1938 and 1945 and during Communism between 1948 and 1989 ( with short exception of renewal of Scout during 1968 and 1969 ), boy clubs posed excellent informal alternative of youth life based on ideas similar to those of Scouts.

The strength in the Dow occurred despite a brief recession in 1949 and other global conflicts which started a short time later including the latter stages of the Chinese Civil War, the Greek Civil War, the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

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" Ordeal in Space " is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein, originally published in Town & Country, May 1948.

Category: 1948 short stories

Category: 1948 short stories

He was finance minister for a short time in 1948.

" The Lottery " is a 1948 short story that caused controversy in the United States.

* " Excelsior " ( short story ), a 1948 short story by P. G. Wodehouse

After beginning with a series of short documentary films showing artists at work in their studios, as well as a few commercial commissions, Resnais was invited in 1948 to make a film about the paintings of Van Gogh, to coincide with an exhibition that was being mounted in Paris.

Her brother, Sam McDaniel ( 1886 – 1962 ), played the butler in the 1948 Three Stooges ’ short film Heavenly Daze.

James Michener won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for his collection of short stories, Tales of the South Pacific, which in turn was the basis for South Pacific, the 1949 musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, also a Pulitzer Prize winner.

Also premiered was a 35mm restored print of the Lou Costello-produced 1948 short film 10, 000 Kids and a Cop, which was shot at the Lou Costello Jr.

Some are very short ( a week to ten days ) whereas others can stretch into months and years ( the 1947 eruption started March 29, 1947 and ended April 1948 ).

The book was one of the inspirations for filmmaker Tony Richardson's 1965 film The Loved One, which was based on Evelyn Waugh's short satirical 1948 novel of the same name, tellingly subtitled " An Anglo-American Tragedy ".

* Back Alley Oproar ( 1948 ), a Friz Freleng cartoon ( actually a remake of the 1941 short Notes To You ) wherein Sylvester pesters the sleep-deprived Elmer Fudd by performing several amazing musical numbers in the alley ( and even a sweet lullaby (" go to sleep ... go to sleep ... close your big bloodshot eyes ...") to temporarily ease Elmer back to the dream world, though very temporarily.

Category: 1948 short stories