Word: 75th
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There was a large banquet that evening honoring Monteux's 75th birthday. Having had experience with banquets for some 50 years, the Maitre decided we had better have a four-course dinner before leaving, be prepared, as it were, for the inevitable fruit cup, tasteless mashed potatoes and chicken, topped off by the usual melted ice. So we ordered an iced melon, sole au vin blanc, new potatoes, endive braised, Edam cheese and toasted crackers, fresh strawberry ice, and Vienna coffee with whipped cream. This is why we were late, why I am on a diet...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra will honor Walter H. Piston, Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, by playing for the first time a new Piston symphony in the Orchestra's 75th anniversary concerts on Nov. 25 and 26. Piston was commissioned by the BSO to write his Symphony No. 6 especially for the anniversary concerts...
...only was it an upset--the Indians were figured as two-touchdown underdogs--but it marked the first Green victory in three home starts against the varsity, and provided appropriate recognition of Dartmouth's 75th football anniversary...
...Louvre's Museum of Decorative Arts honored Spanish-born Painter Pablo Picasso with a panoramic exhibition of his works, thus marked his 75th birthday and the 54th anniversary of his arrival in France. Picasso himself, waiting for the crowd to thin before going to his own show, holed up in his new Cannes villa with a mysterious new girl friend, fortyish, known as Madame Z. As a long line of limousines poured out specially invited guests on opening day, a grim little old lady, topped by a black straw hat cluttered with artificial flowers, showed up, herself looking like...
...climbed aboard United Air Lines flight 709 in New York last week to fly to Los Angeles and celebrate his 75th birthday. His famous stride had become a careful step, his hands looked transparent and his skin like parchment, but his back was West Point-straight, his manner commanding. When the stewardess saw that General Douglas MacArthur had not fastened his safety belt (he never does), she made the best of it and said nothing...