Word: 50th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year Endicott Peabody, 83, retired as headmaster of Groton. Last week Rosemary Hall celebrated its 50th anniversary. Between those two events there was more than a timely connection. Like swank Groton, Rosemary Hall, a swank girls' school in leafy Greenwich, Conn., has been ruled from its beginning by one person. And like Groton's Peabody, Rosemary's Miss Caroline Ruutz-Rees (pronounced R'Treece) is in a class by herself among U. S. headmistresses...
...Hudson rolled more echoes of war. Behind the guarded gates of Manhattan's West 50th Street pier the kits of 190 British tars were hoisted aboard the ponderous Queen Elizabeth. Within a fortnight she was expected to set out for Halifax, where 12,000 bunks would be installed, then sail to Australia on transport duty...
Carnegie Hall, full of 50th-anniversary feelings, rocked to its foundations. Even the Negro elevator operator felt that his name had been scandalized. Not since Critic Paul Rosenfeld made some vulgar reference to God giving a "positively farewell" recital on the trombone had anything so irreverent been seen in print. Herald Tribune readers...
Asserting he is the son of James Monroe, fifth President of the U. S., and that he passed his 125th birthday last Fourth of July, bewhiskered, squinting, eccentric "Major" Edward James Monroe of Jacksonville, Fla. came forward at a 50th annual convention of Confederate veterans in Washington to claim: "The Japanese Government gave my father . . . jewels. The last I knew they were all locked up in the Treasury. I should have them-great boxes of diamonds, but I don't know. Nobody turned them over to me. Crooks in high office. It's a disgrace...
When Whistler's Mother appeared on a U. S. stamp for Mother's Day 1934, artists shuddered to see an un-Whistlerian bunch of flowers interpolated in the composition. The Post Office avoided artistic blunders when, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Pan-American Union, it issued its best art stamp last spring. From Botticelli's famed Primavera (Spring) it selected a detail: the lightly clad, swirling Three Graces. But their identity was transmogrified. The Post Office said they were North, Central and South America. Designed by William A. Roach, lettered in 14th-Century style...