Word: 150th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...150th anniversary of Longfellow's birth will be celebrated today by two special exhibits in Cambridge. One hundred and twenty-five manuscripts, memorabilia, and first editions are being shown at Houghton Library, and special exhibits are on display at Longfellow House...
...churches soon joined in to form the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, which started the last century's mass movement of U.S. Protestant missionaries to the world. Last week 17 Protestant ministers from the lands reached by American missionaries met at Williams College to mark the 150th anniversary of the haystack meeting. Their topic: "America's new role in the world church." That role has sharply changed from the condescension toward the "heathen" of the five Williams students. In a joint message, the bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church have put it thus: "Plainly, a deep...
...rich fur trade of the Northwest might be diverted from British Canada to the U.S. . Eighteen months later -on Nov. 15, 1805- they reached the Pacific Ocean. This month Lewiston, Idaho, and cities of the Northwest in the valleys of the Clearwater, Snake and Columbia Rivers, are observing the 150th anniversary of the Lewis & Clark Expedition...
...Sheep Has Five Legs (Raoul Ploquin; United Motion Picture Organization) is French Comedian Fernandel's 150th film and a rollicking demonstration of his virtuosity. The Frenchman with the face that has launched a thousand faces has long been a favorite in Europe, but outside the eclectic alcoves of big-city art theaters and the covers of Philippe Halsman's remarkable photographic interview, The Frenchman, he is hardly known in the U.S. Already booked for showing in 33 cities across the U.S., French-made Sheep should at last give many U.S. moviegoers their long-overdue chance to meet Fernandel...
...novel, a wryly ironic account of a gifted swindler (based on an old sketch), was having a great success. Last March his home town, Lübeck, which had once resented Buddenbrooks, made him an honorary citizen. In May in Stuttgart he opened the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the death of Poet-Dramatist Friedrich von Schiller. Almost in spite of himself, Mann had become a symbol of German unity. His 80th birthday in June was the occasion for celebrations in the Western world, but none so satisfactory to Mann as those in Germany. A month ago Mann...