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...Graf Zeppelin cast off from her Friedrichshafen mast for the 347th time, headed over the ocean for the 50th time, carrying her 8,697-th passenger and 100 white mice to Brazil, thence to Chicago...
...they drove to Il Duce's estate near Predappio where he was born, for a celebration in which only neighboring villagers took part. A few old friends brought simple presents. Italian editors knew better than to mention what Benito Mussolini would like to conceal, that this was his 50th birthday...
...potent competitors-Thomas Roerty Shipp in Washington; Carl Byoir, and, most artful of all, Edward L. Bernays. It was bustling "Eddie" Bernays who got the Edison Mazda lamp put on a special postage stamp for the 50th anniversary of the electric light. Also he conceived the soap-sculpture fad for Procter & Gamble; and promoted "big breakfast" propaganda to boost bacon for Beech-Nut Packing Co. But no competitor can approach Ivy Lee in wealth and social stature. His friends are Rockefellers, Mackays, Guggenheims, John William Davis, the late Senator Dwight Morrow. His daughter Alice was presented at Court. He lives...
...which house the Friends' School. Other Washington schools are more progressive, more expensive, but none is more sedately aristocratic than Friends', a nonsectarian, co-educational kindergarten-through-high school for which social as well as financial references are always required. Last week Friends' School celebrated its 50th anniversary-not in I Street but in a new Recreation Hall further out, on Massachusetts Avenue, where the first five grades are taught and where there are playgrounds and a gymnasium. For the Friends' jubilee the kindergarteners played lustily on drum, cymbal, triangle and xylophone, while a teacher accompanied...
...like London bobby's caps. Missing were the mahouts, the ankuses, the jasmine garlands, the gas flares-but not missing was the public's immediate acclaim. Though ''Mister John" Ringling was too sick to come up from Florida, the opening of his circus on this 50th Anniversary of his and his six dead brothers' entrance into show business was a polychromatic paragon of perfection...