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1924 was the year that Soviet premier V. I. Lenin died and was succeeded by Joseph Stalin; the comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" made its first appearance; the Caesar salad was invented; and the first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France.


Significant Book of 1924:
 Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain

BOOK The story of an ordinary man who spends seven years in a sanitarium high in the Alps, where, isolated from everyday concerns, he is exposed to the ideas that shaped a world on the verge of explosion. THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN earned Mann a Nobel Prize for literature.

  Significant Music of 1924:
 George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue

BOOK A star was born when George Gershwin played his jazzy "Rhapsody in Blue" -- "an experiment in modern music" -- for an enthusiastic New York City audience that included Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Rachmaninov, and Arturo Toscanini.




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