The committee of 15 ( three women and 12 men ) was led by John Wolfenden ( 1906 – 1985 ) who had previously been headmaster of Uppingham and Shrewsbury and in 1950 became Vice Chancellor of the University of Reading.

His earliest successes as a leading man included the police detective in the thriller Green for Danger ( 1946 ); as the headmaster of Nutbourne College, co-starring with Margaret Rutherford, in the comedy The Happiest Days of Your Life ( 1950 ); and as a writer of lurid crime fiction in the comedy Laughter in Paradise ( 1951 ).

From 1950 till 1978, Brown was the headmaster of Worcester Royal Grammar School.

Therefore, in 1950 the World Fellowship of Buddhists inaugurated in Colombo unanimously decided that the term Hīnayana should be dropped when referring to Buddhism existing today in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, etc.

In 1950 sixteen countries, including Luxembourg, decided to send armed forces to assist the Republic of Korea.

The transfer to Poland decided at Potsdam in 1945 was officially recognized by East Germany in 1950, by West Germany under Chancellor Willy Brandt in the Treaty of Warsaw signed in 1970, and finally by the reunited Germany by the Two Plus Four Agreement in 1990.

After the war the couple decided to get a divorce, and in 1950 Lyyli Halonen married her new husband Thure Forss, who worked as an electrician and was very active in the working-class community.

On his return home, concerned about the general decline in his home country, he decided that he and his family would emigrate and so, in 1950, he settled with his wife and two daughters on farmland at Langwarrin, south-east of Melbourne.

With the opening of the Dorothy and Michael Hintze sculpture galleries in 2006 it was decided to extend the chronology of the works on display up to 1950 ; this has involved loans by other museums, including Tate Britain, so works by Henry Moore and Jacob Epstein along with other of their contemporaries are now on view.

* 1950: Despite opposition from local authorities, the Cabinet decided that Gatwick was to be an alternative to Heathrow.

However, this decline was halted when, in 1950, the Dutch government decided to encourage population growth and industrial development.

When Ziff-Davis moved to New York City in late 1950, Paul W. Fairman, a prolific writer, went with them, and was soon in touch with Quinn, who decided to found a pair of magazines modelled after Palmer's.

The possibility of a compatible color broadcast system was so compelling that the NTSC decided to re-form, and held a second series of meetings starting in January 1950.

For the 1950 Tuskegee clinic, Drew and three other black physicians decided to drive rather than fly.

At a time when there were no TV ratings -- the A. C. Nielsen Company would not begin measuring TV ratings until 1950 -- Anacin aspirin decided to take a chance and sponsor the show.

Concluding that the hydrogen bomb was now required as deterrent as well as an offensive weapon, on January 31, 1950, Truman decided to proceed with development ; Johnson supported the president's decision.

Smyslov was a fine baritone singer, who only positively decided upon a chess career after a failed audition with the Bolshoi Theatre in 1950.

Also Headquarters USAF decided to add a separate air-to-air rocketry competition to the annual USAF gunnery meet that was held at Las Vegas Air Force Base ( renamed Nellis Air Force Base in 1950 ).

1950 – 51: Despite several teams leaving the NBA for the National Professional Basketball League the Nationals decided to stay put.

After a bloody accident resulting in the death of a blue-collar worker, Édouard Mazé, in Brest in 1950, Abbé Pierre decided to put an end to his MRP affiliation on 28 April 1950, writing a letter titled " Pourquoi je quitte le MRP " (" Why I quit the MRP "), where he denounced the political and social attitude of the MRP party.

It was eventually decided that the Council was having no significant impact on New Zealand's legislative process, and the terms of its members expired on 31 December 1950.

Inspired by a thousand-word rambling letter from his friend Neal Cassady, Kerouac in 1950 outlined the " Essentials of Spontaneous Prose " and decided to tell the story of his years on the road with Cassady as if writing a letter to a friend in a form that reflected the improvisational fluidity of jazz.

Unlike modern elections and referendums, which are decided by secret ballot, the 1950 referendum amounted to a public collection of signatures, not unlike a petition.

Starting in 1950, the company decided to try increasing gum sales by packaging them together with trading cards featuring Western character Hopalong Cassidy ( William Boyd ); at the time Boyd, as one of the biggest stars of early television, was featured in newspaper articles and on magazine covers, along with a significant amount of " Hoppy " merchandising.

Paramount considered a remake of the film starring Bing Crosby in 1950, and in 1954 with Bob Hope, but decided against both.

However, the Community leaders decided to hold their Europe Day in commemoration of the Schuman Declaration of 9 May 1950.

On January 17, 1950, after six aborted attempts, the robbers decided that the situation was favorable.

In 1950, Bill's mother returned from nursing school and married Roger Clinton, Sr., who owned an automobile dealership in Hot Springs, Arkansas with his brother.

Another member of the Frankfurt school, Theodor Adorno, published The Authoritarian Personality, in 1950, which was an influential sociological book which could be taken as something of a proto-psychohistorical book.

Between 1950 and 1971, Seattle University competed as a Division I independent school.

Moving there in 1950, he enrolled in the art school under the G. I.

In 1950 she began her studies in Kallio Elementary school from where she later moved to Kallio Gymnasium and finally finished her matriculation examination in 1962.

After attending Tak Sun School ( 德信學校 ) ( a couple of blocks from his home at 218 Nathan Road, Kowloon ), Lee entered the primary school division of La Salle College in 1950 or 1952 ( at the age of 12 ).

The period between 1943 and 1950 in the history of Italian cinema is dominated by the impact of neorealism, which is properly defined as a moment or a trend in Italian film, rather than an actual school or group of theoretically motivated and like-minded directors and scriptwriters.

In 1950, the Mississippi Legislature voted to create a four-year medical school.

It was inspired by a 1949 case of demonic possession and exorcism that Blatty heard about while he was a student in the class of 1950 at Georgetown University, a Jesuit school.

* 1950 ’ s Oilfield discoveries on school lands enable Schleicher County to build new library and gymnasium facilities for its students.

In 1935, however, he interrupted his theological training to study law at the Radboud University Nijmegen, after graduating in 1940 he practiced law in that same city up until 1950, in the meantime also teaching economics at his old secondary school in Roermond.

* Willie Mays attended school in Fairfield, graduating from Fairfield Industrial High School in 1950.

Millbrae's high school children rode the streetcar to attend Burlingame High School until Capuchino High School opened on September 11, 1950.

In 1950, North Stonington replaced the 15 one-room schools with a consolidated school for the primary grades.

The Mauckport High School was discontinued in 1950 and in 1957, its use as an elementary school was also discontinued.

As part of its Post-War improvements, the town constructed an eight-room schoolhouse known as Freetown Elementary School on a tract of land roughly in the geographic center of the town, with the cornerstone laid in 1949 and the school opening in September 1950.

An addition of a library and home-economics room was added in 1950 and an elementary school building was constructed in 1958.

The Sunday school was built in 1950 with the Luther League installed right after.

In 1950, because of the increasing population, the first elementary school, Cedarcrest, was built.

The stone with the engraved date is now located inside the Pequannock Valley Middle School when the Inn was demolished and replaced with the school in 1950.

In the 1950 film Pagan Love Song, starring Esther Williams, actor Howard Keel ; played Hap " Hazard " Endicott, a school teacher from Springfield, Ohio.

In 1950 Metolius Elementary began to grow out of the 1913 high school building with a new gym and two classrooms.

No blacks lived in the city in 1950, for example, but by the early 1950s the town had added Marlboro Heights, an all-black subdivision, and in 1956 the city school board voted to integrate the local high school.

In 1938 a public school was built, and a high school was added in 1950.