Word: 50th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearby Automat are apt to be found across the street at the George Washington Hotel, which before the war always kept a ten-pound cheese handy for them at the bar. This year City College added a third "campus," for veterans only: a former public-school building on West 50th Street...
Franklin Roosevelt suffered unusual commemoration. The new 50th Anniversary Who's Who, hastening to pay its respects, had fallen on its typographical face. Its F.D.R. entry: "Died April 12, 1945; interned at Hyde Park...
...event of the year took place last week: Pittsburgh's 50th annual Carnegie awards. But just as last year the show did not compare with the old Carnegie Internationals, which displayed such greats as Braque, Matisse, Picasso, and Britain's Augustus John. It was strictly an all-American show by 300 invited artists...
...teenage connotation, never took him to their hearts, but educators knew Dr. Samuel Smith Drury as a man whose broadsides usually struck home. His bustling, benign successor, the Rev. Dr. Norman Burdett Nash, has neither style nor sonority, but he too hits his target. Last week, speaking at the 50th anniversary celebration at Connecticut's Choate School, Dr. Nash took aim at a target he and his listeners knew well: the "independent" school (e.g. Choate, St. Paul's). Excerpts...
Last week the Unitarians ended their 50th anniversary summer meeting, turned the Island over to 165 Congregationalists. Like the Unitarians, they poked for gulls' eggs in the Island's scarred, flumed granite listened to lectures, held seminars and attended services in the little Gosport Meeting House. But, also like the Unitarians, they spent much of their time sitting in silent meditation...