Word: 59th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four of the 29 surviving soldiers of the Confederate Army tramped into Little Rock, Ark. last week for their 59th annual reunion, chortled in high glee over a new explanation for the surrender at Appomattox. The story: that General Robert E. Lee handed his sword and hat to General U.S. Grant because he took him to be the doorman. Then, with a sidelong glance at the last survivors of the G.A.R., who had held their last encampment four weeks ago, they decided to keep meeting each year "as long as there are two of us able to meet...
Israel, just one year old last week, got exactly what it had wanted for a birthday present: membership in U.N. The General Assembly having voted it in, 37-to-12 (with nine abstentions), welcomed U.N.'s 59th member with a standing ovation, politely forgot that the Israelis had again & again been at outs with U.N. The Israelis had balked when U.N. demanded that Jerusalem be internationalized, balked again when they were told to take back Palestine's Arab refugees...
Amos Alonzo Stagg, hale & hearty at 86, took charge of the opening football practice at Susquehanna University, began his 59th year as a college football coach...
...Graduate School of Public Administration played host to the 59th annual convention of the National Association of Railroad and Utilties Commissioners yesterday afternoon, as delegates held their final business session in the Littauer Center auditorium...
William H. Banaka, of 1201 E. 59th St., Kansan City, a graduate of the Westport High School...