Word: 56th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jerry-Built Competence. Sherry was an appropriately unlikely hero for an unlikely Series between two jerry-built teams. Compared to the memorable struggles in recent years between the Yankees and the Braves or Dodgers, the 56th Series produced little great baseball...
...Magic." Following a family tradition, Rockefeller one afternoon last winter called an unpublicized family council in the 56th-floor Rockefeller Center suite from which the Rockefellers guide their worldwide enterprises and philanthropies. To his brothers he outlined his newest intention: he was anxious to run for office; some Republicans suggested he announce for Governor. Said he: "I think I'll give it a whirl...
...JOSEF ABS, director of the powerful Deutsche Bank of Frankfurt and a personal adviser to Germany's Economic Minister Ludwig Erhard (see cover), is generally recognized as one of the most influential spokesmen for the dynamic and prosperous German Federal Republic. In San Francisco, where he celebrated his 56th birthday last week during the I.I.D.C. conference, stocky Hermann Abs also emerged as an incisive spokesman for Western capitalism everywhere...
...Carpet, on Manhattan's East 56th Street, is the sort of room that offers music only as an incidental attraction. Mirror-lined, plushly padded, it opened a year ago as a refuge for after-theater drinkers, celebrities and celebrity seekers ("The beautiful Red Carpet," says its ad. "enjoys the brilliant reputation of being 'The Place' "). The bored piano trio that alternates with the featured singer specializes in smooth-as-cream show tunes and a sleepy metronome beat. In pink satin pajamas, West Coast Pianist-Singer Kitty White pounds out a bouncing, husk-voiced version of Almost Like...
...outburst of devotion that greeted Hirohito's 56th birthday last week was eloquent testimony to the failure of the determined U.S. effort to alter Japan's national character...