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Probably the most significant of these admirers is the American Alumni council, an impartial organization which annually examines over 140 alumni magazines and selects one as best maintaining a "high level of editorial achievement." In 1948, when the Bulletin was celebrating its 50th year of continuous publication, it received the Alumni Council's award as "the most distinguished alumni magazine of the year" in the United States and Canada...
...slew dragons all over the place, as many as three a day, until he had slain 49. Alas, success went to his head. He took to drink, and whenever he went out he wore eight pounds of medals. And so it happened that Gawaine met up with his 50th dragon...
...major U.S. corporations are developing a new and expensive habit: when they feel the need for big-scale celebration, they buy up all the TV time in sight. Last year, on its 50th anniversary, the Ford Motor Co. took over NBC and CBS for a two-hour extravaganza starring Ethel Merman and Mary Martin. This week, General Foods celebrated its 25th anniversary by spending $250,000 to capture all four TV networks for a 90-minute show. Another $500,000 went into a glittering array of stars who tackled the job of re-creating the "great moments" from the musicals...
...Explorers Club in Manhattan invited Sherpa Guide Tenzing Norlcey, co-conqueror of Mount Everest (TIME, July 9), to come from Nepal to feast on American delicacies at its 50th-anniversary banquet, sent him a round-trip air ticket and asked a club member, Greece's Prince Peter, who lives in a Tibetan border town, to help arrange Tenzing's trip. But both Peter and U.S. Ambassador to India George V. Allen got a cold turndown from West Bengal officials, who suddenly discovered that Tenzing could not be spared, even for a week. He was needed, said they...
Judges selected the issue which appeared at the Dartmouth game commemorating the 50th anniversary of Harvard Stadium as the best collegiate program in the country...