Word: 59th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...59th precinct of the 13th ward is accurately known as "Little Lithuania." Its voters know what it means to be ground under the heel of Russian oppression. Ike won the precinct by 53.3% in 1952. This time he took...
...John Dewey Allen, 58, onetime messenger at the New York Produce Exchange (oils, fats, grain, seed, feed, flour), was elected the exchange's 59th president. As a boy, Allen picked up pin money plucking pickle cucumbers on his native Long Island. Breaking in as a messenger on the exchange floor in 1914, he became floor trader for Munn & Jenkins, shipping brokers, later founded his Allen Shipping Co., worldwide middleman between shipowners and bulk cargo shippers. Allen saw duty in two world wars (from buck private to colonel), directed operations at the port of Antwerp in World...
This speech was made by Pusey before the 59th Annual Meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs in Miami Beach on April 7. At that time, Pusey asked the CRIMSON not to report the speech because he said it was "off-the-record." However, the latest edition of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin devotes two pages to reporting the same address, apparently reversing the off-the-record request...
...honor of the First Lady's 59th birthday (actually four months past), a Washington club of 650 Wives of the Federal Independent Agencies last week held a televised party that moved Mamie Doud Eisenhower and millions of viewing housewives to smiles and tears...
Biggest, brawlingest and richest ($7,975 in prizes) local art annual in the U.S. is held by Chicago's Art Institute. Last week, as usual, Chicago's 59th annual blew up in a storm of local outrage. Reason: of the 24 cash awards (picked from 2,027 works submitted), 18 went to relative unknowns, e.g., the top painting award ($1,500) was won by Canadian-born Anna P. Baker, 27 and two years out of art school, for a hectic, minutely squiggled abstractionist canvas titled High Frequency Ping. Almost every big-name Chicago artist finished...