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...hall the pipes were screaming "The Chief's Salute." Hundreds of Macleans from all over the world were there to drink their chieftain's health, to eat his mutton and haggis. The Maclean of Clan Maclean, Sir Fitzroy Donald Maclean of Dowart and Morvaren, was celebrating his 50th year as chieftain of the clan at the castle that he had restored after 200 years of ruin and neglect...
...their 50th game, on a snow-covered field at Williamstown, Mass., Williams beat Amherst for the 30th time...
Unmarked by pomp and speechmaking on the part of the railroads, and almost unnoticed by the traveling public, was the 50th anniversary last week of that major convenience. Standard Time. Only a hand-ful of rheumy oldtime railroaders could recall the nightmare of conflicting clocks & watches that was banished forever one November...
Though it was the National Horse Show Association's 50th anniversary, it was only the 48th show. In 1890 when the old Madison Square Garden was being built and again in 1914 at the beginning of the War, no shows were held. Preceding, as it has survived, Stanford White's tower, the first horse show was held in Gilmore's Garden, a name applied to the old Harlem Railway Terminal as soon as the tracks were torn out. Dutch White was at that horse show too (he rode a Belmont mount then) and he has been...
Like a globe-trotting dowager, self-sufficient and completely self-assured, the Graf Zeppelin barged into and out of the U. S. last week on a schedule adjusted to suit herself. Having completed her 50th crossing of the Atlantic, she rolled up from Rio with 21 passengers including a 10-month-old baby, picked up Miami's Mayor Sewell, and made for Akron, Ohio. It was after dusk when Dr. Hugo Eckener pointed the ship's nose down through driving rain into the floodlights of the Good-year-Zeppelin dock at Akron. A sharp gust whipped her tail...