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When she was only 25, Margaret Mead studied sexual mores in Samoa and earned an assistant curatorship at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. Half a century and many field trips later, the anthropologist is still working for the museum. To commemorate her 50th anniversary on staff, which happened to coincide with her 75th birthday, the museum established a fund to endow a chair in her name and to reorganize its anthropology collection. Mead plans to help raise the target of $5 million, at least when she can spare the time. She is working on a new book.Letters...
Liberal Congressman from Washington State . . . Wants Transportation Secretary's job for 50th birthday present next month . . . Atlanta-born, grew up in Iowa and Oregon, graduated summer cum laude in economics from University of Washington ('49), earned law degree at Harvard . . . In Congress since...
...both the Emperor's divinity and the potentials of military strength in a world sick of war and attempting unsuccessfully to disarm. That was on Christmas Day, 1926. Last week, with three rousing shouts of "Banzai!" followed by a loud brass fanfare, government and diplomatic notables marked the 50th anniversary of Emperor Hirohito's accession...
...Author A.A. Milne and Illustrator Ernest H. Shepard. The classic children's books about Pooh's adventures have been translated into 22 languages and inspired million-dollar businesses in posters, party favors and other products. But one who did not celebrate Pooh's 50th birthday last week was Christopher Robin Milne, 56, the author's son, whose 1974 autobiography, The Enchanted Places, described the trials of growing up in the shadow of a Teddy bear. "Pooh is a toy I had as a child," says Mime, now a bookstore owner in Devon, England. "The exploitation...
...hordes showed up at the department store, in spite of the rain. Standing with his wife, Wanda, daughter of the late conductor Arturo Toscanini, Horowitz explained to the crowd the reasons for his rare gesture: "You see, I don't play in New York again until January 1978, the 50th annivarsary of my New York debut. So I thought the public could this way see that I am in good health and good shape...