Word: 54th
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Charles Luckman, Lever Bros.' president from 1946 to 1950, and an architect, felt strongly that the era needed an architectural expression. He commissioned Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to find it for Lever's new headquarters on Park Avenue between East 53rd and East 54th streets. The inspiration for Bunshaft, who later built the glass-walled PepsiCo, Inc., building in New York City and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., was the International Style. It was the architecture of functionalism that had originated in Europe before World War II and had been introduced...
Freshman Lois Brommer added to her strong showing this tall by finishing 37th, and was closely followed by senior Ellen Gallagher who came in 49th and sophomore Kathy Good, who finished 54th...
...under 100 yards and moving the ball on the vaunted Eli defense, Harvard was unable to score on Yale for the second consecutive year. The bulldogs punched over 14 points in a span of 79 seconds early in the game and held on to beat the gridders for the 54th time in the 98-year history of The Game (eight games have been tied...
Your American Scene article about Colonel Robert Shaw and the black regiment serving in the Civil War [April 6] failed to mention Sergeant William H. Carney. Carney was a black soldier in Shaw's 54th Regiment. On the night the colonel was killed, when the color bearer also fell, Carney seized the Stars and Stripes and moved to the front of the attack. After the order to retreat was sounded, Sergeant Carney, wounded three times, struggled back to the Union lines on one knee, still holding the flag high...
...easily, dropped out of Harvard to try his hand at business (the Shaws had grown rich in the China trade). He was a serious youth but no zealot. Before the first Confederate shell hit Fort Sumter, however, Shaw had already enlisted. When Andrew offered him command of the black 54th, he wrote back saying he lacked experience. He was only 25. Then he sent a countermanding telegram of acceptance. "Now I feel ready to die," said his proud mother, a dedicated abolitionist, "for I see you willing to give support to the cause of truth that is lying crushed...