Word: 53rd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Celebrities at the Stork. One day her father's old friend, Quentin Reynolds, almost the only friend she had in New York then, took her to a 53rd Street bistro just coming into vogue, the Stork Club. There, while Reynolds waited for a friend, Anita haltingly sipped an orangeade. The people she met were all fond of Bud Counihan; they found it, now, remarkably easy to be fond of his girl Anita. In a matter of weeks her friends had increased from one to 201; in a matter of months, Bud's beautiful daughter was the toast...
...specially briefed Allied dive bombers. Colonel General Eduard Dietl, commander of Germany's seven divisions in Finland, was killed somewhere in an air crash, apparently in Finnish Lapland (although some reports said Austria). Russia's netful of captives for the week included a General Gollwitz, commanding the 53rd Army Corps...
...cribbage beside the fire, sets up a hungry cry: "Sally, bring the anchovies!" and Sally reaches for a can opener. Mrs. Spaatz keeps a steady flow of ingenious crackers, biscuits, anchovies, kippers, sardines, smoked cheese and the like crossing the Atlantic for X-House; as a gift on his 53rd birthday (June 28) Tooey will get a Smithfield...
...eminent in its field, the Modern Museum has become one of the most imposing of U.S. public utilities. First housed in a single floor on Fifth Avenue, it moved into its modern 53rd Street residence in 1939. Its Modern Architecture exhibit (1932) was the most comprehensive view of such workers in the International Style as Germany's Walter Gropius, France's Le Corbusier, the U.S.'s Raymond Hood. In 1935, it successfully arranged the American canonization of Vincent van Gogh. In 1936, its Cubism and Abstract Art show was a glamorously complete record of the quarter-century...
Last week St. Andrew's Chapel at Hartsdale, N.Y., and its minister celebrated their birthdays together. For St. Andrew's it was a rebirthday. Just a year had passed since the Rev. George William Edwards saved the minuscule mission from folding. For Mr. Edwards it was his 53rd birthday and a milestone in an unusual religious experience, a kind of modern Pilgrim's Progress. Says Union Theological Seminary's President Henry Sloane Coffin: "Mr. Edwards' case is unique...