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...returned, the ball boys bobbing across the courts, the explosive verdicts of linesmen, the players toweling their heads beside the umpire's platform, the massed groans, naughty whistles and well-mannered shushes of the crowd. Tennis history had neatly formed decades for the occasion: it was the 50th summer of play in the stadium, the 50th anniversary of the Club...
...collection was given to the University prier to Mr. Dane's death in April, it being his desire that the fifth be associated with the 50th reunion of the Class of 1892, of which he was a member. It will be known as the Ernest B. Dane and Helen Pratt Dane Collection...
...Women's Army Auxiliary Corps had openings for 450 officers. On the first day, bemused Army recruiting officers gave out 13,208 long, pink application blanks, explained 13,208 times that an applicant must be between her 21st and 50th birthdays* (no, she must not fib about her age), must be between five and six feet tall, must weigh between 105 and 200 Lb., must have a high-school education...
Arthur MacArthur died in style. Attending the 50th annual reunion of his Civil War regiment at Milwaukee, he rose to deliver what he said would be his last speech. It was a fiery oration, reverberating with echoes of dead drums and battle cries. As he finished the speech, he faltered, dropped dead. His old adjutant rose, tottered over to drape the body with the flag, then fell dead himself across the body of his commander...
Thus Knoedler's (celebrating its 95th birthday) last week celebrated Royal Cortissoz' 50th anniversary as an art critic (for the New York Herald Tribune) with an exhibition of the pictures the twinkling old gentleman liked best in the whole...