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...special message celebrating the 50th birthday of Rome's Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music, Pope.'John XXIII noted that "it is a duty to make sure that the Latin language maintains its regal sceptre and its noble dominion in all solemn liturgy." The Pope encouraged the use of good popular hymns in the vernacular at non-solemn liturgical functions. But Latin, he added, "is permanently connected with the sacred melodies of the Church of Rome, and is a clear and splendid symbol of unity . . . It must continue to maintain its sovereign position to which it has every right...
...Thanksgiving Day last week, Harry's celebrated the 50th anniversary of its opening, and the sentiment flowed as freely as the booze. It seemed that oldtimers had come from all over the world to 5 Rue Daunou ("Just tell the taxi driver 'Sank Roo Doe Noo' ") to pay homage to the good old days...
...Yale Review, writing for its 50th anniversary issue (TIME, Oct. 13), Wallich compares the "innocence" of the national economy 50 years ago with its current complexities, decides that the marketplace, for all its flaws, is still impressively viable. The U.S. economy, says Wallich, has stayed healthy not so much because of Government intervention but in spite of it: "The gamut of possible government action has been widened, the box of tools greatly enlarged, and there are many who would like to use the lot. Such drastic departures are not a normal part of the American scene. It would take...
...Haven scene until the 200th year of a university already laden with antiquities. It is much younger, for example, than old Connecticut Hall (completed 1752), the tavern known as Mory's (b. 1861), or even Boola Boola (1897).* But last week, as it observed its 50th year with an anniversary issue, the Yale Review could take pride in having become, in a mere half a century, one of Yale's-and journalism's-more imposing institutions...
...mother says, "Where were you all this time?" he will tell her: "In the line at the Radio City Music Hall." He may even introduce her to the girl he met near the end of the queue, courted between Fifth Avenue and Rockefeller Plaza, and married at Sixth and 50th...