His most famous novels were ' A Town Like Alice ' and ' On the Beach '.

Like Buller, Roberts first intended to attack directly along the Cape Town – Pretoria railway but, again like Buller, was forced to relieve the beleaguered garrisons.

Like the character of Clarabelle that he played on Howdy Doody, the Town Clown never spoke.

Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.

* A Town Like Alice ( 1956 )

Many of his books were filmed, including Lonely Road, Landfall, Pied Piper ( 1942 and 1990 ( as " Crossing to Freedom ")), On the Beach ( in 1959 and also in 2000 ), No Highway ( in 1951 ) and A Town Like Alice ( in 1956 ).

* A Town Like Alice ( 1950 ; U. S. title: The Legacy ): the hero and heroine meet while both are prisoners of the Japanese.

Like many other New England towns, the government of Weston consists of the Town Meeting, and elective and appointive boards.

Like most towns of the period, the plan of the Original Town of Forrest was centered on a long narrow Depot Grounds, which were on the north side of the tracks.

Like most small incorporated communities in New England, Truro uses an open town meeting form of government, led by a Town Moderator and a Board of Selectmen.

Like the fire department, the post office has two branches, in South Deerfield ( where most of the town offices are ) and in Old Deerfield Village, near the Memorial Hall and the Old Town Hall.

Like many other towns, this one went through name changes before its incorporation in 1781: " Saville " in 1768, " Corey's Town ", and then " Wendell ", for one of the Masonian Proprietors, John Wendell.

Like most of Steuben County, it is a Republican stronghold, with few Democrats on the Town Board.

However in 1956 he appeared in two major hits, A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) and The Battle of the River Plate ( 1956 ), which saw exhibitors vote him the seventh most popular British star at the box office ; the following year his ranking went up to third, being the fifth most popular regardless of nationality.

In 1980, the Head, a local punk band, released the infamous single " Nothing to Do in a Town Like Leatherhead ".

* Nevil Shute-A Town Like Alice

* Nevil Shute-A Town Like Alice

Like the Town of Willink, the locations named after these investors have been given new names.

* A Town Like Alice ( 1956 )

Like Town Pier, Royal Terrace Pier is also a Grade II listed structure.

A Town Like Alice ( U. S. title: The Legacy ) is a novel by the British-Australian author Nevil Shute.

The novel was adapted to film in 1956 as A Town Like Alice.

In 1981 it was adapted into a popular television miniseries called A Town Like Alice, starring Helen Morse and Bryan Brown ( with Gordon Jackson as Noel Strachan ).

In 1997 a six part radio version of " A Town Like Alice " was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 starring Jason Connery, Becky Hindley, Virginia McKenna and Bernard Hepton.

* Bimini: Alice Town

The Lake Alice Wildlife management area consists of 1, 468 acres along the Duprey Road in the Town of Chazy.

The Town Board selected Alice Roker to be the town supervisor for the last three months of 2007 following the resignation of supervisor Linda Cooper.

* Town of Alice Springs

# REDIRECT A Town Like Alice

# REDIRECT A Town Like Alice

Its main settlement is Alice Town, a collection of shops, restaurants, and bars surrounding a single road known as " The King's Highway ".

# A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

* Kuantan features prominently in the first part of Nevil Shute's 1949 novel A Town Like Alice

At Alice Town on the island of Bimini, tides were mean low water.

The settlements include ( north to south ) The Bluff, Upper and Lower Bogue, Current, Gregory Town, Alice Town, James Cistern, Governor's Harbour, North and South Palmetto Point, Savannah Sound, Winding Bay, Tarpum Bay, Rock Sound, Greencastle, Deep Creek, Delancy Town, Waterford, Wemyss Bight, John Millars, Millar's and Bannerman Town.

Originally used in Baker House to signify the Ivy League university tradition, on his return to Finland Aalto used it in a number of key buildings, in particular, in several of the buildings in the new Helsinki University of Technology campus ( starting in 1950 ), Säynatsalo Town Hall ( 1952 ), Helsinki Pensions Institute ( 1954 ), Helsinki House of Culture ( 1958 ), as well as in his own summer house, the so-called Experimental House in Muuratsalo ( 1957 ).

The success of the pairing prompted both acts to record repeatedly through 1950, producing such rhythmically comical fare as " The Woody Woodpecker Song " ( based on the frisky bird from the Walter Lantz cartoons, and another Billboard hit for the quartet ), " Put ' em in a Box, Tie ' em with a Ribbon ( And Throw ' em in the Deep Blue Sea )," " The Big Brass Band from Brazil ," " It's a Quiet Town ( In Crossbone County )," " Amelia Cordelia McHugh ( Mc Who?

He signed for Fulham as a schoolboy in 1950 and played loan spells at amateur sides Feltham ( in the Middlesex League ), Wimbledon ( Isthmian League ) and Woodford Town ( Delphian League ).

But because of the expense, the brakes were only standard on the Chrysler Crown Imperial through 1954 and the Town and Country Newport in 1950.

Hawthorne made his professional stage debut in 1950, playing Archie Fellows in a Cape Town production of The Shop at Sly Corner.

Epsom Chapel was demolished in 1950 when Goucher College sold a portion of its property for development of the Towson Plaza shopping center, now Towson Town Center.

Town and Country was incorporated in 1950 as a village, and re-incorporated as a fourth-class city 25 years later.

Glendale was incorporated on December 28, 1950 from portions of the Town of Milwaukee.

* Godalming Town F. C., which currently plays in the Ryman Division One South, level 8, of English football, was formed in 1950 and plays home games at Wey Court, Meadrow

* David H. M. Brooks ( 1950 – 1996 ), South African philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Cape Town

* Li ' l Abner Goes to Town — 78 rpm ( 1950 ) Capp-Tone Comic Record

The town government was reformed in 1950 with the acceptance of the Town Manager Charter.

The Town of Webster became one of the major suburban residential areas in Monroe County with its population more than doubling between 1950 and 1960.

Staying true to their principles of taking from the earth only what they needed, the Nearings donated the farm to the Town of Winhall in 1950, to be used as a town forest.

During and after the war, he also wrote several novels under his own name — East of Farewell ( 1942 ), Limit of Darkness ( 1944 ), Stranger in Town ( 1947 ), Bimini Run ( 1949 ) ( with a hero named " Hank Sturgis "), and The Violent Ones ( 1950 ) — and, more famously, several spy and hardboiled novels under an array of pseudonyms, including Robert Dietrich, Gordon Davis and David St. John.

They were founder members of the Gloucestershire Northern Senior League in 1922 alongside Cheltenham Town and the club were to win the league three times in 1938, 1950 and 1951.

He was a visiting professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa ( 1949 – 1950 ), and the University of Cambridge, England ( 1965 ).

* Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town ( 1950 )

In 1948 he returned to the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, then became Minister of Town and Country Planning in 1950, renamed as Minister of Local Government and Planning in 1951.

A 4-door 98 fastback appeared for one year only in 1950 and was called the Town Sedan, selling only 1, 778 units.

He was Minister of Town and Country Planning in the Government of Clement Attlee from 1945 until he retired in 1950.

* Town Hall – a building erected in 1833, severely damaged during the World War II, rebuilt between 1950 and 1960 ;

It was bought by the Town of Cottesloe in 1950 and renamed the Cottesloe War Memorial Town Hall and Civic Centre.