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...struck for the orchestra depicting the Lone Star flag shoulder-to-shoulder with Sir John's Union Jack, and by happy coincidence Harold Macmillan himself said what was on everyone's lips: "Friendship between Texas and Great Britain is a most important thing." The orchestra celebrated its 50th year last week with a gala concert on the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, and Sir John felt properly Nelsonian: "This is the most exciting orchestra...
Congratulating the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital at its 50th anniversary celebration dinner last night, Dean George P. Berry of the Medical School praised the Harvard teaching hospital for combining "compassion and concern for its patients" with "ruthless demands for cold logic" in its scientific research...
...Seltzer. "This newspaper is going to remain the newspaper in this region, period." Under Seltzer's guidance since 1928, the Press has become a real community force in Cleveland. It mother hens its citizens from birth to dotage with a Toddler's Club, free dances for teenagers, 50th wedding anniversary parties. Democratic Senator Frank Lausche admits that the Press helped make him mayor of Cleveland and Governor of the state, and Seltzer can also claim much of the credit for Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Anthony Celebrezze's successful run for mayor as an insurgent...
...American College of Surgeons-which, like the Brigham. is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year-is composed of specialists who believe that the exercise of their art or craft requires concentrated training. The A.C.S. now has more than 25,000 fellows
Verdun was the most destructive and in many ways the most crucial battle of World War I, a war that, as its 50th anniversary nears, is just now beginning to generate in Europe the same post-mortem re-examinations that the U.S. Civil War centennial recently unleashed here. Author Alistair Horne, an ex-Guards officer and British intelligence expert, has stitched together scores of eyewitness accounts by generals and common soldiers to make vivid sense of the battle's indescribable confusion...