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...grossing movies last month, according to a Variety survey of 25 key U.S. cities: 1) The African Queen (United Artists) 2) The Marrying Kind (Columbia) 3) Red Ball Express - see below (Uni versal-International) 4) Belles on Their Toes (soth Century-Fox) 5) Singin' in the Rain...
Last week, on the Head's soth anniversary, 1,600 alumni assembled in the grand ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria to pay him tribute. But the main purpose of the banquet was to present the Head with a gift. For a long time, Alumnus Alexander Johnson had looked around for something that would please...
...some day the oak may no longer be there. Then the model diplomat, capable and correct, must prove how well the British Foreign Office tradition of expertism and caution can adjust to the incautious and wild demands of the second half of the soth century. The answer must wait until Anthony Eden steps out of the oak's shadow...
Special Significance. Such praise comes to each Soviet bigwig on his soth and sometimes his 60th birthday. But there was something in the tone of the Malenkov birthday observance that vibrated political antennae all over the non-Communist world. Soviet censors allowed the Associated Press Moscow bureau to say that it "seemed to have design and special significance." The implication was that Georgy Malenkov, a New Bolshevik who was an adolescent when the Revolution began, had become the likely heir to the aged (72) and ailing Joseph Stalin...
Slouched glumly in his rehearsal seat, Rudolf Bing blinked at the unscheduled little scene on the Metropolitan Opera stage. An impromptu chorus of stagehands was standing among the singers, bellowing Happy Birthday to You, and looking at him. Bing recalled that it was indeed his birthday, his soth. He rose with a reflex smile. "Thank you, thank you," he said. "Those," he added wryly, "were the first words this afternoon that I could understand...