Word: 54th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard finishers: Bill Baker, 18th; John Cogan, 28th; Captain Huna Rosenfeld, 29th; Joe Leeming, 39th; George Anderson, 48th; Arden Albee, 54th, Harvard Wilbur, 58th...
Last week, on his 54th birthday, after a long wartime evacuation, Eros, the winged, aluminum god of love, returned to his Piccadilly pedestal. Cheers greeted him as he drove up in a lorry. A drunk tossed a carnation with the words "From one Eros to another," and ducked away from alert bobbies. Flower-Girl Polly was ready with 15 fresh roses to garland her hero. An official stopped her. "A bit frivolous," he said. "Got to draw the line somewhere, y'know, but we'll hang 'em on the scaffolding." There was some dull speechmaking. But what...
Dialectics & Devils. That day was Palmiro Togliatti's 54th birthday. He obviously intended to enjoy the day. Togliatti began by reminding the Christian Democrats that he himself had studied canon law (at Turin University) and needed no help in its interpretation. He recalled his words to last year's Communist Party Congress: "Since the . . . Church will continue to be the very center of our country-and hence any conflict with it would disturb the consciences of many citizens-we [Communists] must arrange carefully our relations with the Catholic Church...
Belmont Park was hot and humid as the three-horse field reached the post for the 54th running of the Lawrence Realization Stakes. It was not the kind of day on which a smart colt would want to run 1⅝ miles - especially when his cut of the $25,000 added purse would only amount to an extra mouthful of oats. And the favorite, Mahout, who twice recently had bested the triple crown winner, Assault, was an intelligent beast. He was also without guile...
...companies in force, and they had established at least three companies of their own:1) the Bridgeton (Maine) Playmakers, who brashly announced that they would have a Broadway hit this fall -Take a Treaty, a "political comedy" by "an official connected with the United Nations"; 2) The New York 54th Street Theater Company, a nonprofit experimental playhouse which announced an eight-week classic repertory season in Noroton, Conn, (first bill: Moliere's Georges Dandin and Goldoni's Mistress of the Inn); 3) Griffin Productions, most surprising-and-most commercial-of the three...