Word: 50th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever before. Even if the movies of the time were still only talkies, the total would have filled a giant-size Cinemascope screen.Three generations of Masons are marking Harvard milestones in this week's Commencement festivities. CHARLES E. MASON (center), secretary of the Class of 1905, is celebrating his 50th Reunion. His son, CHARLES E. MASON, Jr. (right), is a member of the 25th Reunion Class. And PETER MASON GUNDERSON, grandson of Mr. Mason, Sr. and nephew of Mr. Mason, Jr. is a senior...
...Cover (Paramount) is Jimmy Cagney's 50th. movie, and he proves his durability in the very first reel by walking into a point-blank ambush and emerging with nothing more than a scraped forehead. Since the ambush was a mistake, the chastened townsfolk make Cagney their new sheriff, and he promotes his sidekick (John Derek), who was crippled by the posse, to be deputy. But Derek is the kind of fellow who nurses a grudge-first he helps Badman Ernest Borgnine to escape, then he betrays Cagney, shoots him in the back and leaves him to drown...
...Superb Job. At 77, Walter George is in his 50th year of public service, his 33rd year in the Senate. As the Senate's dean, George holds the respect that the politicians give a man who has been consistently successful in the business of winning elections. As the longtime chairman of the Finance Committee, he is the Senate's acknowledged tax expert. As the current chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, he is the Senate's Democratic spokesman on foreign policy. And as a Southern moderate, he is on the friendliest terms with the Northern liberals...
...McCarthy's powerful Wisconsin friends who did not care for Wiley's attitude let it be known that they might try to beat him in the 1956 primary. Last week, the primary 18 months away, Wiley unexpectedly took a place at the speakers' table at the 50th anniversary dinner of the Knights of Columbus of Kenosha, Wis. When Senator and Mrs. McCarthy arrived, to the wild cheers of the 450 diners, Wiley walked all the way across the platform to the other end of the table to pump McCarthy's hand. Said wily Wiley...
...instead of $80,000 in lottery money they really wanted. The college fortunately was unable to move at the time, and when it finally had to, through desperate need of space, the trustees found it less expensive to take over the old Deaf and Dumb Asylum between 40th and 50th Streets, right next to the half-covered coffins in Potter's Field, than to build on the botanical land. That land remained in Columbia's possession, however, gradually increasing in value until it became the site for Reockefeller Center. It now pays the University a yearly rent of three...