Word: 50th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cast into the dumps at news that what might well have been the biggest and best party of all was canceled. It was to have been given by irrepressible Norah Docker, the blonde and lively wife of Daimler's Board Chairman Sir Bernard Docker, in honor of her 50th birthday...
...strong possibility that a degree in literature will be offered. If so, leading contenders appear to be either Lewis Mumford or W. H. Auden. Elsewhere over the weekend, Helen Hayes, a leading female candidate for a degree, did not wait for Harvard to start celebrating her 50th year in the theater. She received a degree from St. Mary's College on Saturday in South Bend, Indiana...
Inflammatory Talk. Without naming names, Ambassador Stuart quoted recent remarks by Tory Leader George Drew, one of the chief promoters of the current campaign against U.S. investments in Canada. "We are not going to be treated as though we were the 50th state* of the United States," Drew had cried. "We are not going to be hewers of wood, drawers of water and diggers of holes for any other country...
Anything Goes (Paramount), as far as most moviegoers are concerned, so long as Bing Crosby is in it. For The Groaner's golden anniversary in films (this is his 50th picture) his studio could supply the public with nothing better than this leaden souvenir, but it will probably keep the turnstiles squeaking...
...meetings of composers were brought about by the fullest fortnight of modern music Manhattan has ever heard. Chief instigators were the Juilliard School of Music, which commissioned 32 U.S. composers for its 50th anniversary celebration, and New York City's highbrow station WNYC, which stages an annual American Music Festival between Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays. With a handful of other outfits also producing 20th century music, there were no fewer than 236 compositions by 149 U.S. composers, as well as a few imports. Last week's standouts...