Word: 54th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young men with white flannel trousers and sunburned noses who make it their business, all year round, to wangle for the world's major tennis championships. Last week the group was preparing to descend on Forest Hills, N. Y. for the last major event of the year, the 54th U. S. Singles Championship. Meanwhile the long series of preliminaries to that tournament were being brought to an end at Chestnut Hill, Mass. and South Orange...
...cravat. On Symphony Hall stage the players tuned to the oboe's A, while Brahmins found their places. All stood when Koussevitzky entered, made his calm & studied bow. When the first piece was over he did an unaccustomed thing. He grinned. To open the Boston Symphony's 54th season Koussevitzky had chosen a rich, compact passacaglia which he had written himself. Bostonians had been curious. Koussevitzky, they knew, was the world's greatest bull-fiddler. He could write sympathetically for the big bass, as Kreisler has written for the violin. For the Symphony's 50th anniversary...
...Maurice Thompson went to Indiana, wrote books on archery. Will Thompson went to Seattle, wrote his famed "The High Tide at Gettysburg," became attorney for Railroad Tycoon James J. Hill. Together, with Maurice for president, Will for champion, they founded the National Archery Association which last week held its 54th annual tournament at Storrs, Conn...
Moscow last week the Dictator's 54th birthday came and went as usual amid much work while to U. S. editors was re leased a picture of Mme Djugashvili, his 74-year-old mother, apropos of the first moving picture of her ever made. "Where is America?" she asked the picture maker. "I only know it is beyond the ocean." This was at Tiflis, where, as every Rus sian knows, the Dictator's mother lives in two rooms of the Palace of the former Tsarist Governor of Georgia, now a Soviet Republic (TIME, Dec. 8, 1930). Questing...
Chosen "Queen of His Court of Love and Beauty until his coming again" by the Veiled Prophet, whose identity is traditionally kept secret even by local newspapers, at the ceremonious 54th annual Veiled Prophet Ball in St. Louis, was Jane Alva Johnson, 19, daughter of Vice President Andrew W. Johnson of International Shoe Co. Present at the coronation was Prince Louis Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, Ford employe, second son of the ex-Crown Prince, who commented: "It is a long time since I have witnessed such scenes...