Word: 51st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rene Peroy's fencing team packed up and left for New York last night to prepare for the 51st annual Intercollegiate Fencing Association Championships...
...above the piteous honking of stalled traffic. Explosions boomed; sirens howled. Police whistles trilled madly as Legionnaires decoyed harried truck drivers to the curb. One night, hundreds of shirt-sleeved Legionnaires hung out the windows of the Taft and Victoria Hotels, fired barrages of water-filled paper bags across 51st Street at each other, howled with vulgar glee as the missiles fell short and plummeted into the crowd below...
...think you will find that General Marshall is the 51st Secretary of State and not the <(48th ... in the line started by Thomas Jefferson" [TIME, Jan. 27]. You could arrive very close to your figure-49-by eliminating the return engagements of Daniel Webster and James G. Elaine, but that isn't good political arithmetic, albeit reportorial face-saving...
...high: "To see life; to see the world; to eyewitness great events." In modern journalism there had been many attempts to hit this target; most of the tries (like Midweek Pictorial) had been faltering. The editors, gathered in a 51st-floor room in Manhattan, wanted a picture magazine that could keep pace with, and even accelerate, the swift advance of camera and printing techniques. They put out two trial issues (called Dummy and Rehearsal) and were still looking about for a better name than Show-Book. Shortly before their first deadline they found it, bought (for $92,000) the title...
During the season Mel spends many of his evenings talking shop - often at Toots Shor's, 51st Street restaurant in Manhattan. He is a movie, crossword puzzle and gin rummy addict, and hankers for the better eating places that specialize in bouillabaisse and oyster Rockefeller. He has also been known to fritter away a few dollars, between seasons, on the ponies...