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...city, currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, reeks of opulence: a two-car family might as well be on relief. But the shape of the place and the nature of its glamour have changed since the golden years, when Hollywood's pioneer stars came to the five-square-mile tract of beanfields, carved castles out of the surrounding canyons, and turned a wasteland into myth, when...
Although her father died in 1956, Dolly Gee remained as committed to holding off his tiu lien in death as in life. But finally she could keep her secret within herself no longer. Soon to be retired after her 50th year in banking, she went to see Bank of America President Rudolph Peterson. "President Rudy," she said, "you are going to hear something that you won't like." Replied Peterson: "Whatever it is, Dolly, go ahead." Dolly did-and auditors are still trying to add up the cost. Best present estimate: around...
Benjamin Britten began the celebration of his 50th birthday by conducting the London Symphony last September in a concert dedicated to himself. He took the podium again last week to honor his birthday with a performance of his War Requiem at London's Royal Festival Hall. Having given English critics the entire autumn to contemplate the significance of a birthday that in fact occurred in late November, Britten found himself still best described by two praiseful paradoxes. Though he has gained immensely in intellectual force over the years, he has lost none of his youthful high spirits and originality...
SOVIET GRAPHIC ARTS-TIME & LIFE Building, Sixth Ave. at 50th St. Four hundred lithographs, woodcuts, linocuts, etchings and drawings in an exhibition sponsored by the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Cultural Exchange Program. Show guides are English-speaking Russians. Through...
...proud Dutchmen presiding over the 50th anniversary celebration of The Hague's Peace Palace were puzzled by the young American. There were the gilded mosaics, the varnished canvases of vanished judges, the symbolic statues in white marble, the misty murals-but the visitor seemed to be most interested in the check signed by Andrew Carnegie, the $1,500,000 gift that built the palace. Could he possibly be a relative? Well, yes, said Henry Carter Carnegie, 28. He was the great-grandson of Andrew's brother Thomas...