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...Kong, time has taken its toll on the beast and his splendid art-deco perch. The Empire State Building is no longer the world's tallest building, and King Kong is not the young buck he used to be either. This month, to celebrate the film's 50th anniversary, these two critical elements of the beauty-and-the-beast tale were reunited: a ten-story, 3,000-lb. inflatable Kong (at 84 ft., more than 30 ft. taller than the original) was hoisted a quarter-mile in the air to his old haunt atop the Empire State. Even...
...NOTEBOOK: After the men's meet, the whole-team headed to assistant manager Ellen Reeve's house to help Reeve's mom celebrate her 50th birthday...
...turnout for the day was low this year, Jellis noted, but she added that "we had a record-breaking number of 50th-year alumni." Seventy-six members of the Class of 1933 attended...
...glass brimming with the essence of a prune, the businessman is cross but not shocked. The domestic drummer, however, always appears to be caught short-and made bewildered-when the journey pauses for an evening in an American anachronism, the dry county. After all, this year will mark the 50th anniversary of the end of Prohibition, and yet here and there across the country (and particularly in the South), pockets remain where the law does not allow the sale of alcohol. Lauderdale County, Ala., is a patch in point...
...celebrate the 50th anniversary of Newsweek, Washington Post Co. Chairman Katharine Graham hired not one hall but three of New York City's biggest. While most of the magazine's staffers celebrated at the Sheraton Centre hotel a few blocks away, a stream of stretch limos deposited celebrities at Lincoln Center for a biflorate black-tie dinner party at the New York State Theater and Avery Fisher Hall. Hostess Graham reportedly busied herself with the tiniest of details, right down to the seating arrangements. For First Lady Nancy Reagan's dinner companions, she chose Henry Kissinger...