Word: 75th
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Last week the Press, the oldest and one of the most successful dailies in the 19-paper Scripps-Howard chain, celebrated its 75th anniversary in real family style. All Cleveland was invited to the party in the city's biggest auditorium, where Toastmaster General George Jessel led an array of stars in a "Salute to Cleveland." Throughout the week visitors streamed through the paper's aged plant (to be replaced by a lakefront building) and tributes poured in from all over the world. "If Cleveland has grown great," glowed Ohio's Governor Frank Lausche, "a good deal...
Nine months ago, in honor of its 75th anniversary, General Electric announced that it would give five shares of stock to each baby born to an employee's family on Oct. 15, the company's birthday. It proved to be a rash promise, especially since it was based on the computation of William D. Haylon, the bachelor in charge of the baby derby. He had estimated that only 13 babies would be born. Instead, 180 were born in the 24 hours of the birthday last week. To their parents. G.E. will turn over about $71,000 worth...
From four-year-old John Hancock Hall to 211-year-old Faneuil Hall, Boston was crowded with lawyers last week. Occasion: the 75th (diamond jubilee) Anniversary of the 50,000-member American Bar Association, top organization of the legal profession and one of the major opinion makers...
...record, add one of Dr. Fosdick's choicest epigrams, from a sermon which he preached in the Riverside Church nearly 25 years ago? . . . Said Dr. Fosdick, "It is magnificent to grow old-if one keeps young!" And now, a quarter of a century later, on his 75th birthday, Dr. Fosdick has become the finest personification of his own meaningful epigram. WILLIAM B. LIPPHARD Executive Secretary Associated Church Press New York City
...this, the 75th anniversary race at New London, the crews will again row the upstream course over which the Elis upset the favored Crimson varsity last June. Again the Elis have had an unsuccessful season, winning only one race, so again the Crimson will be favored...