Word: 50th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...50th anniversary of Eddie Cantor's alma mater-the Educational Alliance, world's largest community center, on Manhattan's fabled East Side. To celebrate the occasion, Cantor recalled an appearance at the Alliance...
...sumptuously chic offices of the Condé Nast Publications in Manhattan a birthday was celebrated this week. It was the 50th anniversary of Vogue, a brilliantined 35? slick devoted to expensive living and women's fashions. Off the presses came a fat issue reviewing five decades of styles...
Stalin's Friend. On Molotov's 50th birthday (he is now 53), Russia heaped honor upon him. Of its eight pages, Pravda devoted a laudatory seven to his work. The Government decorated him with the Order of Lenin. The city of Perm was renamed Molotov; the town of Nolinsk. Molotovsk; the Red Hydropress plant in Taganrog the Molotov Plant. Alexander Lozovsky, then a trade-union bigwig, paid him a lush compliment: "Comrade Molotov combines Russian revolutionary ability with American efficiency." For helping to boost tank production, the Soviet Government a fortnight ago gave him its highest civilian honor...
...British Eighth and Afrika Korps faced each other as on a line of scrimmage. Montgomery had the ball. His right halfback (44th Division) started the play by faking to the left and drawing off the defense. His left half (50th Division) took a fake from the quarterback, then plunged through center. Meanwhile, the fullback (United Kingdom's armored division) had started to the left. Quickly he doubled back, took the ball from the quarterback (51st Highlanders) and sliced through the right side of his line, between the defensive left and tackle. His guard (9th Australians) blocked the defensive halfback...
Marshall Field III, publisher of Chicago's Sun and of New York's PM, neared his 50th birthday and the last installment of his inheritance from his storekeeping millionaire grandfather. Five installments (at 25, 30, 35, 40, 45) have brought him $93 million. The astral fourth will be nearly $75 million...