Word: 74th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Italy to greet her new secretary and companion, United Nations Guide Linda Barone, then plunged on to Chicago, where she opens the Lyric Opera's season in Verdi's Falstaff. Two and a half weeks later she will open the 74th season of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera in Tosca...
...that his own brilliant operation, now standard in better hospitals around the world, could not save him. Nitrogen mustard, which sometimes serves as a life-prolonging palliative in such cases, proved to be of little help; the cancer had already spread too far. Last week, just short of his 74th birthday, he died...
...74th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Stalin, Novelist Howard Fast was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize (value: about $25,000 taxfree) for 1953-"the highest honor," he called it, "that can be conferred on any person in these times." New York City-born Author Fast, 41 (Citizen Tom Paine, Freedom Road), commended himself to the Kremlin by his judgments on the Communist Party ("No nobler, no finer product of man's existence") and the mid-century U.S. ("Only one virtue remains-betrayal-and the only measure of human worth is the measure of a pimp"). Beyond these words...
...wife of the freed prisoner of the Hungarian Reds) cried: "Men who serve their country now have fewer rights than men who betray it." Another orator made the Vigilant Women fairly squeal with delight when he gave his reasons for changing the U.S. Constitution, beginning with: "This is the 74th birthday of General Douglas MacArthur." The speaker was Clarence Manion, ex-dean of the University of Notre Dame's law school, now chairman of President Eisenhower's Commission on Intergovernmental (federal-state) Relations, and a man for whom the Administration has fully mastered its enthusiasm...
...Milan last week, courtly Guglielmo Emanuel celebrated his 74th birthday by holding his first art show. On the gallery walls were 49 delicately-colored scenes of Italy and Southern France that would have done a professional credit: airy, back-lighted town vistas, views of Venice and the Riviera, mountain terraces dipping into lush valleys, richly colored flower markets flooded with sunlight. The critics cheered Emanuel's taste, finesse and remarkable craftsmanship. Said one: "He really has the painter...