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...cloth-of-gold gown, a Mr. John hat with diamonds and foot-high white aigrettes, a white mink coat), Sophie sat down to a filet mignon dinner with some 1,700 admirers, who paid their way in with $165,000 for theatrical charities. It was really Sophie's 49th year in show business, but, as she happily explained in her rain-barrel bass: "Honey, I'm all booked up next year; there wouldn't have been time then." The air was damp with sentiment as a succession of old friends and fans, e.g., General James Van Fleet...
...Passed (274-138) a bill to make Hawaii the 49th state. A group of Democrats tried but failed to block statehood for Hawaii (pop. 499,800) until Alaska (pop. 128,650) also becomes a state. This is the third Hawaiian statehood bill passed by the House in six years; both previous bills died in the Senate. The new bill will be opposed by some of the Senate's Southern Democrats-who like neither Hawaii's political complexion nor its lack of a color line-but the prospects for a 49th state are better than ever before...
...point total for the season failed to qualify, Bet-tenhausen was in. But he still drove as if he had everything to lose. He took the lead on the fifth lap, by the twelfth stretched it to the straightaway's length, had lapped the whole field by the 49th. His winning time for the 100 miles:1 hr. 14min...
Britain's Ralph Vaughan Williams is a composer who bides his time. Primarily famed as a symphonist (he has composed six symphonies), he waited until he was 51 to write his first ballet score (Old King Cole); at 69 he composed his first film score (49th Parallel). Last week, at 78, the famed old doyen of English composers finally made his first bow in Covent Garden with an opera...
...cash-on-the-barrelhead business. Last week 75-year-old Jim Penney, founder of the 1,612-store J. C. Penney Co. chain (TIME, June 20, 1949), third largest general merchandise retail business in the U.S., made a sentimental journey back to Wyoming for his first store's 49th anniversary...