Word: 50th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Absolutely Topnotch. It all began in 1943, when dynamic Parson Walter Hussey, 38, was planning jubilee celebrations for his church's 50th anniversary. Says he: "I decided we'd have really absolutely topnotch performances of music and art -so why not approach the people at the very top of the tree? They could only refuse, and that wouldn't hurt me." When his father, Canon Hussey, who had been St. Matthew's first vicar, offered to make a jubilee presentation to the church, Hussey hurried off to see Sculptor Moore, whose smooth, tiny-headed figures...
Milwaukee, ancient home of German-American brewers, will be the mecca for thousands of Harvard men this week as the Associate Harvard Clubs open their 50th anniversary meeting tomorrow in the midwestern malt center. At the conclave, which will last for three days, countless University officials, including President Conant and alumni notables are scheduled to report on the state of the Harvard community...
...pulpits all over the U.S., were assembled for the biggest S'micha in the history of U.S. Judaism. All were graduates of the theological seminary at Manhattan's green-turreted Yeshiva University, the only Jewish university in the U.S. Yeshiva's seminary was also celebrating the 50th anniversary of its founding. Before an audience of 1,200 distinguished Orthodox scholars, educators and laymen, the black-capped musmachim (mostly in their 20s) rose briefly as their names were called...
Arturo Toscanini remembers anniversaries. Last week, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Brahms's death, he led his NBC Symphony Orchestra through an all-Brahms program. It was played with such precision and such cohesive beauty that listeners had a hard time believing that next week Toscanini will celebrate an anniversary of his own: his 80th birthday...
Last week Grand-Guignol began its 50th season with four new short plays which had been toned down for the benefit of queasy critics. It was not like the old days; there were only three gruesome murders, and there was no torture more horrendous than a barehanded strangulation. Nobody in the audience even fainted. The spectators, mostly old Guignol-goers and a few youngsters whose parents had warned them not to go, lounged around on rough wooden benches and had a modest emotional binge. A few couples in screened baignoires had another kind of binge on the indifferent house champagne...