Word: 50th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...founder of Broadway's fabled Lindy's restaurant; of Parkinson's disease; in Manhattan. Berlin-bred son of a linen peddler, Lindy came to the U.S. at 25, worked as bus boy and waiter. In 1921 he unveiled the first Lindy's just south of 50th Street. Soon his menu featuring gefüllte fish, blintzes and super-cheesecake, attracted the famed and ill-famed heroes of Broadway's big-spending '20s, and Lindy's became the prototype of Damon Runyon's "Mindy...
Converging on the Municipal Theater in Tulsa for joint concerts next month, as Oklahoma celebrates its 50th anniversary of statehood, were four internationally famed ballerinas, Qklahomans all, and all of Indian descent: Rosella Hightower of the Marquis de Cuevas Ballet, Marjorie Tallchief of the Paris Opéra Ballet, her sister Maria Tallchief of the New York City Ballet, and Yvonne Chouteau of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo...
...spotlight on Your Hit Parade. In addition to his Tegular CBS chores, Alfred Hitchcock will produce and direct ten films for NBC's Suspicion; Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis return with six specials each; and Dean Martin plans to alternate with Polly Bergen. General Motors celebrates its 50th anniversary with Jubilee of American Music, and Standard Oil will hire Cyril Ritchard, Jimmy Durante, June Allyson, Bert Lahr, Jane Powell, Kay Thompson, Marge and Gower Champion for its 75th birthday party. NBC will also spotlight the National Tennis singles, the World Series (in color), the Rose Bowl game, and Queen...
...bars and press clubs around the world, United Press staffers gathered this week to celebrate an event that was uniquely of their own making: the United Press Associations' 50th anniversary. If the U.P. men bragged more and drank more than most newsmen at play, they could be said merely to be obeying the deep competitive urge that has made their hardfisted, bustling wire service second in size only to the 109-year-old Associated Press-and often ahead of it in covering the news...
...building boom will add another skyscraper on fast-reviving Avenue of the Americas (TIME, Dec. 10). Rockefeller Center, Inc. and TIME Inc. last week announced plans for a new 47-story, $70 million TIME and LIFE Building to occupy the entire west side of the avenue between 50th and 51st Streets, opposite Radio City Music Hall. When the 550-ft., air-conditioned building is finished in two years, TIME Inc. will take over 20 lower floors; the remaining 27 floors will be rented by Rockefeller Center, Inc. to other occupants, e.g., American Cyanamid Co.. Shell Oil Co., McCann-Erickson...