Word: 500th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The 500th hour of Westing-house-sponsored drama. Two Counts of Murder gives Raymond Massey and David Janssen a chance to tangle with politics, nepotism, young love, and just enough mayhem to keep the plot boiling...
Into Tokyo's Metropolitan Gymnasium last week poured an impressive throng of 4,500 Anglicans and Episcopalians, including church dignitaries from eleven nations, to celebrate the centenary of their first mission in Japan.* The Buddhists had just been in the same hall to commemorate the 2,500th anniversary of Buddha's birth by posing such questions as "Does the accomplishment of sunya [nothingness] depend on pratityasamutpada [cause and effect]?" The Anglicans held a more down-to-earth meeting. There were speeches on the benefits of atomic energy and discussions of the Communist menace to Asia. But the high...
...topic was Nicholas de Cusa, a 15th century political theorist from the delightful town of Kues in the German valley of the Moselle, the heart of wonderful wine land, "Nicholas library was endowed with proceeds from a vineyard he owned and it's still standing. They celebrated the 500th anniversary last December and issued a postage stamp for the occasion. Really a charming place...
...commissioned one Ugo Comilli to copy the text on milk-white vellum of calf or sheepskin ; three artists whose names have been lost illuminated key pages. The finished product passed into the safekeeping of the Vatican Library in the mid-17th century, was last displayed in 1950 on the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Vatican Library, and is currently kept in a massive oak cabinet in the Vatican's special storage rooms...
Milestoned. In New Haven, Conn., John Murphy got a suspended sentence when he told a judge that the occasion marked the 500th time he had appeared in city court for drunkenness...