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...high hopes, this was the big day. At 2801 East Washington Street in Phoenix, in a new sky-blue, concrete-block building, the first issue of a metropolitan daily newspaper, the morning Arizona Journal, was about to roll off the press. Even the date was auspicious: it was the 50th anniversary of Arizona's statehood. Then, just as the new, automatic machinery swung into action, everything seemed to go wrong...
Linking Two Frontiers. That was in February 1912. This month, as Arizona celebrates its 50th anniversary as a state, Work Horse Hayden celebrates his 50th year in the U.S. Congress-an alltime record. A Senator for the last 35 years, he rarely speaks on the floor, avoids newsmen as if they were lepers, hardly ever appears in headlines. He is chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee and, as the Senate's president pro tempore, third in succession to the presidency. Bald, stooped Carl Hayden, 84, is a congressional institution-and a last link between the New Frontier...
Written on commission from the San Francisco Symphony, which is celebrating its 50th season. Composer Harris' new work is titled San Francisco Symphony. But it is actually intended as a musical evocation of the life of St. Francis of Assisi. Harris began work, he says, when he was flying across the country at 33,000 ft.-hence the music's "quality of aspiration." Often rising at 3 a.m. and working through until midnight, Harris finished his 22-minute symphony in one month. As played last week, it had all the ardor, the sinewy strength, the luminosity and clarity...
Womb to Tomb. State-run health in surance for employed workers, which metamorphosed into NHS, celebrates its 50th anniversary in Britain this year. NHS as such is now 13 years old. Most Britons, while they are keenly and vocally aware of its shortcomings, would not want to get along without...
...hard work. The notion for a world's fair was born seven years ago when three leading citizens met for drinks at the Washington Athletic Club. Two members of the Chamber of Commerce and a newspaperman convivially agreed that it would be nice for Seattle to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition with another, grander fair. By the time the three reached the label on the bottle, the fair was no joke, and things began to happen. The city pledged $10 million for an opera house, a theater and an exhibition hall. The state...