Other more recent political figures educated at Columbia include U. S President Barack Obama, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank Alan Greenspan, U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and U. S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr .. Dwight D. Eisenhower served as the thirteenth president of Columbia University from 1948 to 1953.

* 1948 – Alan Parsons, British music producer and artist

* Jews and Baseball: Entering the American mainstream, 1871 – 1948, Burton Alan Boxerman, Benita W. Boxerman, McFarland, 2006, ISBN 0-7864-2828-7

In 1948 Alan Courtney — New York disk jockey and co-composer of the popular song, " Joltin ' Joe Dimaggio " — began a call-in program for the Storer station in Miami, Florida ( WGBS ) and then on Miami's WQAM, WINZ and WCKR the " Alan Courtney Open Phone Forum " flourished as an avowedly conservative and anti-communist political forum with a coverage area over the Southeastern U. S. and Cuba.

Reality television began in 1948 with Alan Funt's TV series Candid Camera.

* Alan Williams ( born Alan James Williams, 23 December 1948, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire )-vocals, guitar

* Saigon ( 1948 film ), a 1948 film starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake

Alan Paige Lightman ( born November 28, 1948 in Memphis, Tennessee ) is an American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur.

* The Alan Dale Show premieres ( 1948 – 1951 ).

The show's music was provided by Alan Roth ( 1948 – 1955 ) and Victor Young ( 1955 – 1956 ).

** 21 November 1945 – 14 May 1948 Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham ( 1887 – 1983 )

* Alan Pryce-Jones 1948

* Alan Simpson ( MP ) ( born 1948 ), British politician

Russell later appeared in the more popular films Calcutta ( 1947 ) with Alan Ladd and the two with John Wayne, Angel and the Badman ( 1947 ) and Wake of the Red Witch ( 1948 ).

He was replaced by Skip Alan ( born Alan Ernest Skipper, 11 June 1948, Westminster, London ).

Lost in the Stars is a musical with book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson and music by Kurt Weill, based on the novel Cry, the Beloved Country ( 1948 ) by Alan Paton.

Alan Paton published the acclaimed novel Cry, the Beloved Country in 1948.

* Alan Campbell ( Scottish footballer ) ( born 1948 ), former Scottish football midfielder

Charles Alan Pownall approved the flag's shape in 1948.

Alan Pearlman was an engineering student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts in 1948 when he foresaw the coming age of electronic music and synthesizers.

Bohr worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in early 1948, and later at Columbia University from January 1949 to August 1950.

In 1948, Eisenhower became President of Columbia University, a premier private university in New York.

* 1948 – Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York.

After the war, Greenberg taught at the University of Minnesota before returning to Columbia University in 1948 as a teacher of anthropology.

When Weissmuller finally left that role, he immediately traded his loincloth costume for a slouch hat and safari suit for the role of Jungle Jim ( 1948 ) for Columbia.

at Columbia University, and received his Masters in 1948.

* 1948 – A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes.

Spring thaws can often swell county waterways, with two of the more destructive floods being those of the Columbia River in June 1894 and May, 1948.

He enrolled at the University of British Columbia in 1945 at age 16, and was among Canada's outstanding track sprinters in the late 1940s, qualifying for the 1948 Olympic team.

In 1948, Congress renamed all of the courts of appeals then existing to their current formal names: the court of appeals for each numbered circuit was named the " United States Court of Appeals for the _____ Circuit ", and the " United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia " became the “ United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ".

The black-and-white cartoons and the silent films were sold to Guild Films under license of Sunset Productions, which was established by Warners as its television subsidiary in the same manner as Columbia Pictures ' Screen Gems, and the aforementioned 1948 – 1949 color cartoons remained with Warner Brothers ).

* Joseph Stephen Crane-famed restaurateur of the Luau and Kon Tiki restaurants ; Columbia Pictures actor ; husband to actresses Lana Turner ( 1942 – 44 ) and Martine Carol ( 1948 – 53 )

The Columbia Basin Irrigation Project brought water to the area in 1948.

In 1948 the federal government started selling government-owned farm units on the Columbia Basin Project to qualified applicants with preference to veterans.

The Long-Playing record was launched in the USA in 1948 by Columbia Records ( not connected with the British company of the same name at the time ).

In 1948 UPA also found a home for itself at Columbia Pictures and began producing theatrical cartoons for the general public, instead of just using propaganda and military training themes ; UPA also earned itself two Academy Award nominations during its first two years in production.

In 1948, Columbia Records introduced the ten-and twelve-inch long-playing ( LP ) vinyl record for commercial sales, and its rival RCA-Victor responded the next year with the seven-inch 45 rpm vinyl record, which would come to replace the 78 as the home of the single.

Partly as an attempt to compete with the LP, introduced in 1948 by rival Columbia Records, RCA Victor introduced " Extended Play " 45s during 1952.

In 1948, Columbia adopted the Screen Gems name for its television production subsidiary.

Columbia Records issued these recordings in 1948, " Nelson Eddy in Songs of Stephen Foster ( Volume 1: A-745 and Volume 2: A-795 ).

In 1948 Turing joined Max Newman's Computing Laboratory at Manchester University, where he assisted in the development of the Manchester computers and became interested in mathematical biology.

* Adrian Bejan ( born 1948 ), Romanian-born professor of mechanical engineering at Duke University

Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1948.

In 1948, Lawrence " Herkie " Herkimer, of Dallas, Texas, a former cheerleader at Southern Methodist University, formed the National Cheerleaders Association ( NCA ) as a way to hold cheerleading clinics.

* Dowd, David, Pageant-Master of the Republic, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, ( 1948 )

Wheeler was a research student at the University Mathematical Laboratory at Cambridge from 1948 – 51, and a pioneer programmer on the EDSAC project.

He designed mines for the U. S. Navy during World War II, before obtaining his Ph. D. in physics from Princeton University in 1948 and working as a scientific liaison officer in the U. S. Embassy in London.

Zuse also claimed to have designed the first higher-level programming language, which he named Plankalkül, in 1945 ( published in 1948 ) although it was implemented for the first time in 2000 by a team around Raúl Rojas at the Free University of Berlin — five years after Zuse died.

It was built at the Victoria University of Manchester by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill, and ran its first program on 21 June 1948.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948 ; reprinted: Four Courts Press, Dublin and Portland, OR, 1994.

From 1948 to 1962 she lectured in Levantine Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

* Kenneth M. Pollack, Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness 1948 – 91, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 2002, ISBN 0-8032-3733-2

After teaching at the University of Lyon from 1945 to 1948, Merleau-Ponty lectured on child psychology and education at the Sorbonne from 1949 to 1952.

Because of his increasing interest in the social sciences, Manchester University created a new chair in Social Science ( 1948 – 58 ) for him.

His work in World War II led to the construction of Colossus, the first operational electronic computer, and he established the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at Manchester University which produced the first working stored program electronic computer in 1948, the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine.

Gell-Mann earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Yale University in 1948, and a PhD in physics from MIT in 1951.

Training camps were previously held at Chestnut Hill Academy in 1935, St. Joseph's University in 1939 and 1943, Saranac Lake from 1946 – 1948, Hershey from 1951 – 1967, Albright College from 1968 – 1972, Widener University from 1973 – 1979, and West Chester University from 1980 – 1995.