When Mel Taube left Purdue in 1950, Wooden's inclination was to return and finally accept the head coaching job there.

* Cry Baby / I'm Not Falling In Love With You ( by Johnny Otis ) ( Regent # 1016 ) ( 1950 ) ( Mel Walker & The Bluenotes )

** Michael L. Tolkin ( born 1950 ), an American filmmaker and novelist ; son of Mel Tolkin and Edith Leibovitch, a studio executive and film industry lawyer

In 1950, Lloyd Shapley invented the board game So Long Sucker, along with Mel Hausner, John Forbes Nash, and Martin Shubik.

The original recorded version of Wills ' " Faded Love ", appeared on the Tiffanys as a fairly swinging instrumental unlike the ballad it became when lyrics were added in 1950.

* 1950 – Adam Rainer, the only man in recorded human history ever to have been both a dwarf and a giant ( b. 1899 )

The first recorded use of the term McCarthyism was in a political cartoon by Washington Post editorial cartoonist Herbert Block ( aka Herblock ), published on March 29, 1950.

In fact, Murcia holds temperature records close to the highest recorded in southern Europe since reliable meteorological records commenced in 1950.

The Stanley Brothers utilized a high baritone part on several of their trios recorded for Columbia records during their time with that label ( 1950 – 1953 ).

He is mentioned in the lyrics of the song " I May Be Wrong ( But I Think You're Wonderful )" by Harry Sullivan and Harry Ruskin, written in 1929, which became the theme song of the Apollo Theater in New York, and which was recorded by many artists including Doris Day in 1950.

From 1950 to 1954 Phillips recorded the music of James Cotton, Rufus Thomas, Rosco Gordon, Little Milton, Bobby Blue Bland, and others.

* Brownsville-Brent-Goulding, a single census area recorded during the 1950 Census

* Brownsville-Brent-Goulding, a single census area recorded during the 1950 Census

* Brownsville-Brent-Goulding, a single census area recorded during the 1950 Census

During the period between 1950 and 1956, 66 new subdivisions were recorded to make room for 2, 700 new homes.

Extremes range from, recorded in 1950, to, recorded in 1956 and 1981.

Sheridan's lowest ever recorded temperature was on January 31, 1950.

The rapid growth of the city during the 1950s was made apparent in the 1960 census, which recorded a total of 13, 441 residents, a 1, 369 percent increase over the 1950 figure.

In Britain, Decca bought out the bankrupt UK branch of Brunswick Records in 1932, which added such stars as Bing Crosby and Al JolsonAl Jolson, who had recorded for the Victor Talking Machine, Columbia Records, and Brunswick Records, made a series of recordings for Decca from 1946 until his death in 1950, following the success of Columbia Pictures Technicolor film biography The Jolson Story ( 1946 ).< sub >< citation needed ></ sub ></ ref >

Paul had hosted a fifteen-minute radio program, The Les Paul Show, on NBC radio in 1950, featuring his trio ( himself, Ford and rhythm player Eddie Stapleton ) and his electronics, recorded from their home and with gentle humor between Paul and Ford bridging musical selections, some of which had already been successful on records, some of which anticipated the couple's recordings, and many of which presented re-interpretations of such jazz and pop selections as " In the Mood ", " Little Rock Getaway ", " Brazil " and " Tiger Rag ".

Koussevitsky's final recording with the Boston Symphony was a high fidelity version of Sibelius ' second symphony, recorded in 1950 and released on LP.

Evidence of this can be found in the set entitled 20th Century Piano Genius which consists of 40 tunes recorded at private parties at the home of Hollywood music director Ray Heindorf in 1950 and 1955.

Heavy snowfalls are exceptional events: only in 1985 has there fallen more than 50 cm ( the same year which recorded the lowest temperature since 1950 :-7 ° C ).

At the end of the year Shiels, Moore and Bridgeman briefly reunited for a series of gigs, and a 1975 line-up of Shiels ( guitar / vocals ), Bridgeman, Jimi Slevin ( lead guitar / vocals, ex-Alyce, ex-Peggy's Leg ) ( born June 1950, Dublin ), Timmy Creedon ( second drummer / vocals ) and Johann Brady ( bass ) recorded the Skid Row single " The Spanish Lady " / " Elvira ".

A set of small group sides recorded in 1950 with Miles Davis and Bennie Green are among the best of her career, but they were atypical of her Columbia output.

Kaufman, intrigued to learn that the four concertos were in fact part of a set of twelve, set about finding a full score and eventually recorded the other eight concertos in Zürich in 1950, making his the first recording of Vivaldi's complete Op.

The entire series from then until 1950 was recorded in this way.

In 1950, Jones and Maltese began working on Rabbit Fire, a short that has changed Daffy Duck's personality forever.

* The Scarlet Pumpernickel ( 1950 ), a Chuck Jones cartoon in which Sylvester plays the Basil Rathbone-like villain to Daffy Duck's Errol Flynn-esque hero.

A 1950 Looney Tunes cartoon titled The Ducksters featured Daffy Duck as the host of a radio game show called Truth or AAAAAHHHH !, with Porky Pig as the contestant.

In the Looney Tunes cartoon The Ducksters, ( 1950 ), Porky Pig asks Daffy Duck, " In what latitude and longitude did the wreck of the Hesperus occur?

In the 1950 short His Bitter Half, Daffy marries a different, large and grey duck for her money, but he soon runs away after experiencing her bossy ways and her son Wentworth's trouble-making which leads to Daffy getting scalped, beaten up and blown up by a firework.

* The Prize Pest ( 1950 ) ( used when Daffy recruits Porky )

* 1950 Candyland / Rhapsody

* 1950 Armenian Rhapsody ( co-author: Arno Babajanyan )

Finally, for 1950 only, runners would be credited with a stolen base if they were " well advanced " toward the base they were attempting to steal ", and the pitcher is charged with a balk, with the further exception of a player attempting to steal, who would otherwise have been forced to advance on the balk by a runner behind them.

In 1950, he had two top ten hits, " Ida Red Likes the Boogie " and " Faded Love ", which were his last hits for a decade.

* Freeman, Lucy: " Psychologists act against Dianetics ", New York Times, 9 September 1950

Following this, an astronomical conference held in Paris in 1950 recommended " that in all cases where the mean solar second is unsatisfactory as a unit of time by reason of its variability, the unit adopted should be the sidereal year at 1900. 0, that the time reckoned in this unit be designated ephemeris time ", and gave Clemence's formula ( see Definition of ephemeris time ( 1952 )) for translating mean solar time to ephemeris time.

The Charter of the German Expellees () of August 5, 1950, announced their belief in requiring that " the right to the homeland is recognized and carried out as one of the fundamental rights of mankind given by God ", while renouncing revenge and retaliation in the face of the " unending suffering " ( unendliche Leid ) of the previous decade, and supporting the unified effort to rebuild Germany and Europe.

* 1950 – The " Storm of the Century ", a violent snowstorm, takes shape on this date before paralyzing the northeastern United States and the Appalachians the next day, bringing winds up to 100 mph and sub-zero temperatures.

* 1950 – The Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950, otherwise known at the time as the " Storm of the Century ", strikes New England with hurricane force winds resulting in massive forest blow-downs and storm surge damage along the Northeast coast including New York City.

Firstly, the Population Registration Act in 1950 classified residents in South Africa into four racial groups: " black ", " white ", " colored ", and " Indian " and noted their racial identities on their identifications.

* " Titanium: Our Next Major Metal ", Popular Science, October 1950 — one of first general public detailed articles on Titanium

Jensen also criticized Gould for concentrating on long-disproven arguments ( noting that 71 % of the book's references preceded 1950 ), rather than addressing " anything currently regarded as important by scientists in the relevant fields ", suggesting that drawing conclusions from early human intelligence research is like condemning the contemporary automobile industry based upon the mechanical performance of the Ford Model T.

A 1997 edition of the book advances all the dates by 31 years ( thus running from 2030 to 2057 ), includes " The Fire Balloons ", and replaces " Way in the Middle of the Air " ( a story less topical in 1997 than in 1950 ) with the 1952 short story " The Wilderness ", dated May 2034 ( equivalent to May 2003 in the earlier chronology ).

All About Eve is a 1950 American drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the 1946 short story " The Wisdom of Eve ", by Mary Orr.

During the period of McCarthyism ( 1950 – 1954 ), Humphrey was accused of being " soft on Communism ", despite having been one of the founders of the anti-communist liberal organization Americans for Democratic Action, having been a staunch supporter of the Truman Administration's efforts to combat the growth of the Soviet Union, and having fought Communist political activities in Minnesota and elsewhere.

In 1950 he contributed the Introduction to a Constable & Co omnibus edition of Damon Runyon's " stories of the bandits of Broadway ", which was republished by Penguin Books in 1990 as On Broadway.

* American ( U. S. A .)— Abelle, Victor: " Pierrot and Pierrette " ( 1906 ; piano ); Foote, Arthur: " Pierrot " and " Pierrette ", from Five Bagatelles ( c. 1894 ; piano ); Hoiby, Lee: " Pierrot " ( 1950 ; # 2 of Night Songs for voice and piano ; text by Adelaide Crapsey above under # Poetry | Poetry ); Neidlinger, William Harold: Piano Sketches ( 1905 ; # 5: " Pierrot "; # 7: " Columbine "); Oehmler, Leo: " Pierrot and Pierrette – Petite Gavotte " ( 1905 ; violin and piano ).

The firm was initially known as " Saarinen, Swansen and Associates ", headed by Eliel Saarinen and Robert Swansen from the late 1930s until Eliel's death in 1950.

Nielsen's career began in dramatic roles on television during what is known as " Television's Golden Age ", appearing in almost 50 live programs in 1950 alone.

* 1950 — Fred Hoyle coins the term " Big Bang ", saying that it was not derisive ; it was just a striking image meant to highlight the difference between that and the Steady-State model.

The copyright page of the first edition hardcover published by Charles Scribner's Sons states " Copyright 1950 by Robert A. Heinlein ", noting the publication of the earlier condensed Boy's Life version, but the title page of the first edition hardcover states " 1953, New York, Charles Scribners Sons ".