Events
- Dorothy Parker divorces Alan Campbell for the first time.
- Landfall literary magazine is founded in New Zealand (now that country's oldest literary journal)
Read more about this topic: 1947 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word events:
“The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.”
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