Word: 54th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MANHATTAN'S ASTOR PLAZA, bogged down for lack of funds, will be rescued bv First National City Bank, third biggest in U.S. Bank will take over lease on Park Avenue site, between 53rd and 54th Streets, where Vincent Astor intended to erect $75 million slab skyscraper (TIME. Oct. 1, 1956). will put up a building...
...54th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first powered flight at Kitty Hawk, the National Aeronautic Association honored one of the airplane's best friends: Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, first (1947-50) Secretary of the U.S. Air Force. For his "distinguished career of public service in the field of aviation," Stu Symington took a bow and got the annual Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy...
...glare. For U.S. consumption, Newsman Huntley stretched Outlook's normal half hour to a full 60 minutes, during which he also trekked through the ruins of Carthage, briefed viewers on Tunisia's tortuous history, and relayed some of the excitement attending Bourguiba's 54th birthday celebration. Poking around the minarets and parapets of old Tunis, the NBC cameras caught some absorbing glimpses: the crowds chanting "Hi Yah Bourguiba" in the teeming souks and streets, the veiled Bedouin women greeting their first President with eerie, unearthly noises made, explained Huntley, by "bending their tongues back over their soft...
...after her 54th birthday, Glenna Collett Vare, six times women's amateur golf champion, played a 36-hole match with Rhode Island Champion Joan Bobel, 19, won two-and-one, and took back the state title she last held 36 years...
Unlike Crosby, most bowling fans take more than a rooting interest. Egged on by TV (which devotes an estimated 9,000 hours each year to bowling), they have succumbed to an athletic urge to topple tenpins themselves. When the 54th annual championships began in Fort Worth last month, the American Bowling Congress needed every inch of the vast Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum to accommodate 16,000 competitors from all over the country. Last week, after five weeks of clamorous competition, the tournament was still drawing big crowds. With only two weeks to go, the battle was so close that...