Today Bergey is best recognized for creating the iconic cover of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes for Popular Library at the height of his career in 1948.

Capp appeared as a regular on The Author Meets the Critics ( 1948 –' 54 ) and made regular, weekly appearances on Today in 1953.

Lancaster made seven films over the years with Kirk Douglas, including I Walk Alone ( 1948 ), Gunfight at the O. K.

The episodes are renumbered 1 to 9, although, in fact they are episodes 1-2, 5-6, and 9-13 ( a similar fault was made on the release of At Last the 1948 Show ).

The show was broadcast from 1948 to 1971 ( a total of 23 years ), which made it one of the longest-running variety shows in U. S. broadcast history.

An impression has sometimes arisen that ephemeris time was in use from 1900: this probably arose because ET, though proposed and adopted in the period 1948 – 1952, was defined in detail using formulae that made retrospective use of the epoch date of 1900 January 0 and of Newcomb's Tables of the Sun.

G M Clemence ( 1948 ) made a detailed proposal of this type based on the results of H Spencer Jones ( 1939 ).

Clemence ( 1948 ) made it clear that his proposal was intended " for the convenience of astronomers and other scientists only " and that it was " logical to continue the use of mean solar time for civil purposes ".

Previous to the 1960 change, the ' Improved Lunar Ephemeris ' had already been made available in terms of ephemeris time for the years 1952-1959 ( computed by W J Eckert from Brown's theory with modifications recommended by Clemence ( 1948 )).

Since its unification with Pakistan, the East Pakistan Army had consisted of only one infantry brigade, which was made up of two battalions, the 1st East Bengal Regiment and the 1 / 14 or 3 / 8 Punjab Regiment in 1948.

Two Cities Films, an independent production company also made some important films including This Happy Breed ( 1944 ), Blithe Spirit ( 1945 ) and Sir Laurence Olivier's Henry V ( 1944 ) and Hamlet ( 1948 ).

John Fox Watson made a pioneering transfer to Real Madrid in 1948, becoming one of the first players from the British Isles to sign for a high-profile side abroad, leading the way for British players like John Charles, Jimmy Greaves and Denis Law in the following decades.

8, 700 tariff concessions were made totaling the remaining amount of tariffs to ¾ of the tariffs which were in effect in 1948.

In 1948, Hawks made Red River, an epic western reminiscent of Mutiny on the Bounty starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift in his first film.

( Improvements completed in 1948 made it possible to execute stored programs set in function table memory, which made programming less a " one-off " effort, and more systematic ).

The Israeli Declaration of Independence (, Hakhrazat HaAtzma ' ut or Megilat HaAtzma ' ut ), was made on 14 May 1948 ( 5 Iyar 5708 ), the day before the British Mandate was due to expire.

Martin & Lewis made many appearances on early live television, their first on the June 20, 1948 debut broadcast of Toast of the Town with Ed Sullivan on the CBS TV Network ( later The Ed Sullivan Show ).

He made thirteen Jungle Jim films between 1948 and 1954.

A 3 year ( 1948 – 51 ) teaching experience at St. Xavier's Collegiate School, Calcutta, made him discover Hinduism through the way it shaped the personalities of the students entrusted to him.

In 1948, the Khan of Qalat, Mir Ahmad Yar Khan, decided to join Pakistan on request of Muhammad Ali Jinnah ( founder of Pakistan ), and decision was made that defence, currency, foreign office and finance will be controlled by federal govt.

Sir Edmund Hillary made his first ascent in January 1948.

In February 1948 with Ruth Adams, Harry Ayres and Mick Sullivan, Hillary made the first ascent of the South Ridge to the Low Peak In order to celebrate the life of Hillary the South Ridge was renamed as Hillary Ridge in August 2011.

But instead of handing power over to Khalifa ibn Hamad, who had been named heir apparent in 1948, he made his son, Ahmad ibn Ali, ruler.

The US military studied the idea of what was referred to as the earth satellite vehicle when Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal, made a public announcement on December 29, 1948 that his office was coordinating that project between the various services.

That began to change in 1948 when reports of Bikini Atoll tests were circulated among the Air Force, which made information about the bomb more available to planners and helped to convince them of its strategic capabilities.

His experience in the region and in particular his perceived Labour sympathies at that time led to Clement Attlee appointing him Viceroy of India after the war, charged with overseeing the transition of British India to independence no later than 1948.

Sykes had begun to write for television as early as 1948, but from the early 1950s Sykes began to make an ultimately successful transition from radio to TV, writing a number of series episodes and one-off shows for the BBC.

In 1948 – 1951 occupied Japan observed daylight saving time ( DST ) from the first Sunday in May at 02: 00 to the second Saturday in September at 02: 00, except that the 1949 spring-forward transition was the first Sunday in April.

The first comic book series to make the permanent transition to newspapers, Pogo debuted on October 4, 1948 and ran continuously until the paper folded on January 28, 1949.

Hill Field became the Hill Air Force Base on 5 February 1948, following the 1947 transition of the new U. S. Air Force away from the U. S. Army and the United States Army Air Forces, into an independent service, as called for by the National Security Act of 1947.

For a brief period in May 1948, JNF stamps were used as postage stamps during the transition from Palestine to Israel.

Mills was the managing editor of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine beginning in 1948 and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from its inception in 1949 ; he took over as editor upon the resignation of Anthony Boucher in 1958 ; while EQMM was sold by publishers Mercury Press in 1958 to B. G. Davis, Mills briefly remained on staff there during the transition and continued to edit Mercury Mystery Book-Magazine till its folding.

In 1948, Reppe discovered that nickel could catalyze the formation of substituted benzenes from acetylenic compounds ; since his initial discovery, cyclotrimerizations to produce substituted benzenes have been catalyzed by no less than seventeen transition metals, including:

In 1948, Nikolais was appointed director of the Henry Street Playhouse, which had been left in a state of transition and had to be entirely re-established.

In April 1946, the last French officers were forced to leave Syria due to sustained resistance offensives ; the Levantine Forces then became the regular armed forces of the newly independent state and grew rapidly to about 12, 000 by the time of the 1948 Arab − Israeli War, the first of four Arab − Israeli wars between 1948 and 1986.

* 1948 — Ralph Alpher, Hans Bethe (" in absentia "), and George Gamow examine element synthesis in a rapidly expanding and cooling universe, and suggest that the elements were produced by rapid neutron capture

Groves realized that in the rapidly shrinking postwar military he would not be given any assignment approaching in importance the one he had held in the Manhattan Project, and he decided to leave the Army in 1948.

Husseini's popularity in the Arab world had risen during his time with the Nazis, and Arab leaders rushed to greet him on his return, and the masses accorded him an enthusiastic reception, an attitude which was to change rapidly after the defeat of 1948, when he was singled out as a scapegoat to blame for the failure.

In 1948, Figge with co-workers showed on laboratory animals that porphyrins exhibit a preferential affinity to rapidly dividing cells, including malignant, embryonic, and regenerative cells, and because of this, they proposed that porphyrins should be used in the treatment of cancer.

The foreign trade enterprises successfully carried out the government's policy of rapidly redirecting the bulk of the country's foreign trade from non-communist countries to communist countries in the period from 1948 to 1953.

He advanced rapidly up the managerial ladder and became company president in 1948.

Zaisser ’ s career took off rapidly soon afterwards, and by 1948 he was Minister of the Interior and Deputy Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt.

The Lionel 2333 diesel locomotive, an EMD F3 in the colorful Santa Fe " Warbonnet " paint scheme, introduced in 1948, became the Lionel company icon and the icon of the era, yet, Lionel declined rapidly after 1956.

Crystalline DNase was not available until 1948, but biological activity was rapidly reduced by tissue extracts rich in DNase.

By 1940 Bendix had sales running around 40 million dollars and in 1948 General Motors sold its interest in Bendix as it wanted to focus more on its rapidly expanding automotive operations.

After the establishment of Israel in 1948, the Jewish population decreased rapidly.

Between 1948 and 1958 the proportion of students in the School of Arts and Sciences grew much more rapidly than those in the Schools of Agriculture and Engineering, and by 1957 comprised 25 % of the student body.

Some housing development began in the 1930s, with the population expanding rapidly from 1948 onwards.

Since 1948, the population of the island has declined rapidly, as many Tilians migrated to the United States or Australia.

The union grew even more rapidly during World War II and the years afterward, reaching 100, 000 members by 1948, when John H. Lyons succeeded Morrin as president of the union.

All the 56xx / 66xx locomotives passed into British Railways ownership at nationalisation in 1948, and all remained in service until 1962, at which time they were withdrawn from service quite rapidly, with the onset of diesel traction on BR gaining momentum.

In the fall of 1948 his health began to fail rapidly.