Word: 50th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King George VI quietly, unofficially turned 50, marked the day by 1) a family luncheon party, 2) a dinner for 20 guests, 3) a dance for 100. Britain's sovereign will not have his official 50th birthday for six months. The reason: English weather smiles more happily on June birthday celebrations...
...concert promoter in Chicago put it this way: "When I found out it was Hindemith's 50th birthday I said, 'Let's bring the guy here and cut up the cake out here.' I knew it wouldn't mean any cake at the box office but for heaven's sake he's one of the world's foremost musicians, and unless someone takes an interest in what he's doing the public will never know his work. What are we going to do, wait until his 150th anniversary...
Last week, on their 50th anniversary, the Bekins Van & Storage companies, located in Omaha, Dallas, Los Angeles and Seattle, had 37 warehouses throughout the west, 430 vans, 1,270 employes (plus some 14 key Bekinses). Still operating on the happy family plan, the companies run a trainlike transcontinental van line, have 37 U.S. offices, took in $5,500,000 last year, moved more than 30,000 tons of home furnishings (the firms cannot handle general freight under their Interstate Commerce Commission permit...
...Denis danced the Resurrection in one Manhattan church, the 63rd Psalm in another, moved to California to build her temple of the dance. She worked in the graveyard shift (from midnight to 8 a.m.), sorting parts in an aircraft plant. Now she is rehearsing the 1 50th Psalm for a Hollywood Bowl performance in July...
Louise Homer, Pittsburgh-born Metropolitan Opera contralto of 30 years ago, now the mother of six and grandmother of 15, was honored on her 50th year of marriage to Composer Sidney Homer at an "Evening of Music" given by Florida's Rollins College, where Mme. Homer will teach recipients of a new scholarship fund dedicated to her as a golden-wedding gift...