Word: 52nd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thought it had chipped and scratched its way to some kind of penman's peak. But steel pens could be pushed no faster than 30 words a minute. By 1867, no less than 51 men had tried and failed to invent a machine that would write faster. The 52nd, Christopher Latham Sholes of Milwaukee, succeeded. And in its own way, the typewriter started as big a revolution as the mass-produced Ford...
Once upon a time, the jazzman's capital was New Orleans; later came Chicago and Manhattan's 52nd Street. Today, the liveliest center of developing jazz is California, where a cluster of youngsters, still mostly in their 20s, are refining the frenzies of bop into something cooler, calmer and more coherent...
...with which their birthdays are celebrated. It took nearly two years for Russian newspapers to print all the tributes to Stalin on his 70th birthday, but last Dec. 21, when his birthday rolled around again, no mention of it was made. Last week Premier Georgy Malenkov came to his 52nd birthday (on Jan. 8). In anticipation of the great day, Rumania's Communist news agency, Agerpress, filed a canned eulogy of the Soviet chief to its member papers in preparation for the standard high jinks. Czechoslovakian editors also got set with big laudatory spreads. Soon both Czech and Rumanian...
Five years ago, Britain's Labor Party would have howled down such statements with shouts of "Reaction!", "Treason to the Cause!" Last week, when they heard them, 3,000 Labor Party delegates applauded vigorously. By overwhelming majorities the party's 52nd Annual Conference, meeting in Margate, chucked out a string of leftist proposals to nationalize: 1) the land, 2) the aircraft industry, 3) machine tools, 4) arms plants. In so doing, it confirmed what was fast becoming apparent: that "nationalization," the great solve-all of the doctrinaires, has worn out its welcome in Britain...
...Racing Association's James Ducey, who had lost time on an ill-advised tack, and sluiced in first. With 48½ points over Ill's 45-4, Gene Walet was the year's top skipper. Glowed Gene: "I gave this race to my dad for his [52nd] birthday present." Then father Walet bundled Gene and his victory trophy, a mammoth silver soup tureen, back to New Orleans, where, technically, the National Champion would have to account to his teachers for missing two weeks of school...