Word: 50th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asses' Milk. Last week, at its headquarters in Chicago's Civic Opera Building, EB was getting ready to celebrate a milestone in its history: its 50th year under U.S. ownership. Meanwhile, the 1951 printing (prices: $239.95 & up) had just gone to press, with 38 million words, 17,600 illustrations, and 41,200 articles from 4,060 contributors. But in spite of all this, EB's editorial board could hardly pause for breath. "You may be just about completed with 1951," says Editor Walter Yust of his job. "But then you've already started...
...Munich, police arrested Merchant Georg Brunner, 50, for illegally owning and trying to peddle a suitcase full of government-confiscated Adolf Hitler memorabilia including: several autographed copies of Mein Kampf, an initialed steel pocket watch, three engraved Hitler-head coins made in honor of his 50th birthday, his World War I army identity card, his 1933 nomination as Chancellor...
...through Christmas day. Perhaps the best of this group is Night Train, now ten years old, a superb thriller involving Rex Harrison, Margaret Lockwood, the Gestapo, a cable car, and as many furtive aples as Carol Reed could round up. It is scheduled to close tomorrow at the Beverly (50th and Third...
Funds for the awards were made available to the College at the classes' 50th and 25th reunions respectively, last June, Allan H. W. Higgins '25, chairman of his class reunion, told the CRIMSON at that time that the 1925 award would go to students "who show prowess in athletics and other non-scholastic affairs and who meet the College's regular entrance requirements...
Just at that point a cousin conveniently died, leaving Fry a small legacy and enabling him to start work on his first important play, The Boy with a Cart, a pageant celebrating the 50th anniversary of a village church, and The Tower, another pageant, on the history of Tewkesbury Abbey. Both plays recalled the manner, if not the grandeur, of T. S. Eliot's religious pageant, The Rock; they also showed a humor and a lyricism that was Fry's own. Eliot himself was impressed by The Tower. Another pageant by Fry, Thursday's Child, was performed...