* Bill Ellis ( born 1950 ), American folklorist

The term fakelore was coined in 1950 by American folklorist Richard M. Dorson.

* Bill Ellis ( born 1950 ), American folklorist

* 1950 – Patrick Juvet, Swiss singer-songwriter and model

* 1950 – Patrick Adams, American record producer and songwriter

* Sir Patrick Reilly, 1950 – 53

* Patrick Juvet – ( born 1950 ), Swiss singer-songwriter

* Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Traveller's Tree, 1950, pp 214 – 5

* Patrick Cammaert ( 1950 ), UN peacekeeping mission / Force commander

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

: In 1950, Supreme Records, Incorporated – a small label owned by Al Patrick ( Albert T. Patrick ; 1910 – 1973 ), who was African American – lost a case in United States District Court for the Central District of California, Southern Division, against Decca Records, Inc., a large record label.

On May 17, 1950, the base was renamed the Long Range Proving Ground Base, but three months later was renamed Patrick Air Force Base, in honor of Army Maj. Gen. Mason Patrick.

* David Troughton ( born 1950 ), English actor and son of Patrick Troughton

Neil Patrick Jordan ( born 25 February 1950 ) is an Irish filmmaker and novelist.

* An Irishman's Diary, 1950 ( with Patrick Campbell )

Patrick Oliver Cockburn ( ; born 5 March 1950 / 1 ) is an Irish journalist who has been a Middle East correspondent since 1979 for the Financial Times and, presently, The Independent.

Marvin Olasky ( born June 12, 1950 ) is editor-in-chief of WORLD Magazine, the author of more than 20 books, including The Tragedy of American Compassion, and Distinguished Chair in Journalism and Public Policy at Patrick Henry College.

Patrick finally retired as general manager in 1946, but stayed on as vice president of Madison Square Garden, finally exiting in 1950.

Bruce Patrick McNall ( born April 17, 1950 in Arcadia, California ) is a former Thoroughbred racehorse owner, and a sports executive who once owned the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League ( NHL ) and the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League ( CFL ).

* Patrick O ' Malley ( American politician ) ( born 1950 ), former Illinois State Senator

* Patrick McGrath ( novelist ) ( born 1950 ), British novelist

* Joy of Youth: The Letters of Patrick Hore-Ruthven ( 1950, ed.

John Patrick Shanley ( born October 3, 1950 ) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director.

Major contributions to the study of species and their distributions were made by Patrick Russell ( 1726 – 1805 ), the father of Indian ophiology, Colonel R. H. Beddome ( 1830 – 1911 ), Frank Wall ( 1868 – 1950 ), Joseph Fayrer ( 1824 – 1907 ) and H. S. Ferguson ( 1852 – 1921 ).

** Patrick Swift, Envoy, March 1950 ( read ); Reid painted Swift's portrait that year.

The Armed Forces Medical Publication Agency, established in 1949, has published, since January 1950, The United States Armed Forces Medical Journal as a triservice publication to furnish material of professional interest to Medical Department officers of the three military services.

Both Bob Jones, Sr. and Bob Jones, Jr. believed that film could be an excellent medium for mass evangelism, and in 1950, the university established Unusual Films within the School of Fine Arts.

Under the Coal Industry Nationalisation ( Superannuation ) Regulations of 1950, a pension scheme for mineworkers was established.

That made the Browns ' entry into the NFL in the 1950 season the first test of whether their early supremacy could carry over into a more established league.

In April 1950, Hubbard and several others established the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation in Elizabeth, New Jersey to coordinate work related for the forthcoming publication.

The Uniform Code of Military Justice, passed by Congress in 1950 and signed by President Harry S Truman, established the policies and procedures for discharging service members.

The Dutton Trout Hatchery on Point Lookout Road was established in 1950 and is one of the largest hatcheries in the state.

The Blue Ribbon Awards were established in 1950.

* 1950 – The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.

The IMU was established in 1920, but dissolved in September 1932 and then re-established 1950 de facto at the Constitutive Convention in New York, de jure on September 10, 1951 when ten countries had become members.

The American heiress Alice Vanderbilt Morris ( 1874 – 1950 ) became interested in linguistics and the international auxiliary language movement in the early 1920s, and in 1924, Morris and her husband, Dave Hennen Morris, established the non-profit International Auxiliary Language Association ( IALA ) in New York City.

This rising affluence was accompanied by a 20 % fall in working hours during that same period, together with a fall in the unemployment rate from 8 % in 1950 to 0. 4 % in 1965. in addition, an advanced welfare state was established.

On April 17, 1950 ( 25 years to the day before the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh ), the first nationwide congress of the Khmer Issarak groups convened, and the United Issarak Front was established.

The Max Planck Society established the Lorenz Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Buldern, Germany, in 1950.

In 1917, Albert Einstein established the theoretical foundations for the laser and the maser in the paper Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung ( On the Quantum Theory of Radiation ); via a re-derivation of Max Planck ’ s law of radiation, conceptually based upon probability coefficients ( Einstein coefficients ) for the absorption, spontaneous emission, and stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation ; in 1928, Rudolf W. Ladenburg confirmed the existences of the phenomena of stimulated emission and negative absorption ; in 1939, Valentin A. Fabrikant predicted the use of stimulated emission to amplify “ short ” waves ; in 1947, Willis E. Lamb and R. C. Retherford found apparent stimulated emission in hydrogen spectra and effected the first demonstration of stimulated emission ; in 1950, Alfred Kastler ( Nobel Prize for Physics 1966 ) proposed the method of optical pumping, experimentally confirmed, two years later, by Brossel, Kastler, and Winter.

The navy was established in September 1950 by consolidating regional naval forces under General Staff Department command in Jiangyan, now in Taizhou, Jiangsu province.

The Somali Air Corps ( SAC ) was originally established with Italian aid in the early 1960s, emerging from the Italian " Corpo di Sicurezza della Somalia " while the country was under Italian and British administration, between 1950 and 1960.

In 1950 the Syrian Arab Navy was established following the procurement of a few naval craft from France.

Born in 1950, Ryan's background is established in Patriot Games and Red Rabbit.

UNHCR was established on 14 December 1950 and succeeded the earlier United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.

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WHO established an epidemiological information service via telex in 1947, and by 1950 a mass tuberculosis inoculation drive ( using the BCG vaccine ) was under way.

The Convention of the World Meteorological Organization was signed 11 October 1947 and established upon ratification in 1950.

In 1950 he established his own studio in Copenhagen and, in 1952, built an open-plan house for himself, the first of its kind in Denmark.

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