* 1954 – James Charles Kopp, American murderer of Barnett Slepian

* 1954 – Charles Busch, American actor and screenwriter

In 1998, Pensacola Christian College produced a widely distributed videotape, arguing that this " leaven of fundamentalism " was passed from the 19th-century Princeton theologian Benjamin B. Warfield ( 1851 – 1921 ) to Charles Brokenshire ( 1885 – 1954 ), who served BJU as Dean of the School of Religion, and then to current BJU faculty members and graduates.

Charles William " Bill " Mumy, Jr. (; born February 1, 1954 ) is an American actor, musician, pitchman, instrumentalist, voice-over artist and a figure in the science-fiction community.

* 1875 – Charles Perrin, French rower ( d. 1954 )

* Douglas Charles Abbott ( 1 July 1954 – 23 December 1973 )

* 1994 – Charles Rodman Campbell, American convicted rapist and murder ( b. 1954 )

Charles Jones was given freedom, and remained in seclusion until November 16, 1954.

* October 20 – Charles Ives, American composer ( d. 1954 )

* Charles E. Exley, Jr., MBA 1954, Former Chairman and CEO of NCR Corporation

* Charles Koechlin ( 1954 – 9 ): Traité de l ' Orchestration ( 4 vols ).

* Pinorman: Personal Recollections of Norman Douglas, Pino Orioli and Charles Prentice ( 1954 )

Notable Presidents of IEEE and its founding organizations include Elihu Thomson ( AIEE, 1889 – 1890 ), Alexander Graham Bell ( AIEE, 1891 – 1892 ), Charles Proteus Steinmetz ( AIEE, 1901 – 1902 ), Lee De Forest ( IRE, 1930 ), Frederick E. Terman ( IRE, 1941 ), William R. Hewlett ( IRE, 1954 ), Ernst Weber ( IRE, 1959 ; IEEE, 1963 ), and Ivan Getting ( IEEE, 1978 ).

Eisenhower acted on his suggestion the next day and on February 8, 1954, Rep. Charles Oakman ( R-Mich .), introduced a bill to that effect.

Following a series of conventional westerns and films noirs, including the Marilyn Monroe vehicle River of No Return ( 1954 ), he appeared in Charles Laughton's only film as director, The Night of the Hunter ( 1955 ).

* 1954: The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh

A historic marker in front of the Harris County Courthouse erected in 1954 by the Georgia Historical Commission reads as follows: " This county, created by Acts of the Legislature December 14, 1827, is named for Charles Harris, eminent Savannah jurist.

Nearby is Charles Close, a mid-20th century residential development on the site of the Charles family's large Georgian mansion, Wroxham House, demolished in 1954.

* 1948 – 1954: Charles Jean Bernard, Switzerland

* Charles E. McConnell, mayor of Springhill, Louisiana, from 1954 to 1958, twice unsuccesssful candidate for the Louisiana House of Representatives, graduate of Rayville High School

In June 1954, Charles Medura was killed in the mine by a fall of rock, the last of many fatalities at the mine.

Other major funders include Bill Gates, Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. ( MIT class of 1954 ), Charles Thomas " E. B " Pritchard Hintze ( a graduate and of JD Edwards, now Oracle ) and Morris Chang of TSMC.

In February 1954, RCA Victor began recording the orchestra in stereo, under the direction of Charles Munch.

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.

* The 1955 film The Phenix City Story ( directed by Phil Karlson ) is a biopic film noir focusing on the rampant crime and corruption in the city ( then called " the wickedest city in the United States ") and the 1954 murder of newly-nominated Alabama Attorney General candidate Albert Patterson.

Charles Patterson, in a 1954 essay, explains that " It is erroneous to assume that here Keats is merely disparaging the bride of flesh wed to man and glorifying the bride of marble wed to quietness.

* Hal Patterson – player ( OE / DB ), 1971 ( Montreal Alouettes 1954 – 60 ; Hamilton Tiger-Cats 1961 – 67 ).

Throughout the rest of the 1950s and early 1960s, Kitt recorded ; worked in film, television, and nightclubs ; and returned to the Broadway stage, in Mrs. Patterson ( during the 1954 – 1955 season ), Shinbone Alley ( in 1957 ), and the short-lived Jolly's Progress ( in 1959 ).

Grantray-Lawrence Animation was an animated cartoon studio active from 1954 to 1967 and founded by Grant Simmons, Ray Patterson ( hence " Grant-Ray "), and Robert Lawrence.

Morgenthau graduated from Yale Law School in 1948 and joined the New York law firm of Patterson, Belknap & Webb, becoming a partner in 1954.

Patterson was convicted a year later of violating the Smith Act and the Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Jr. declared the CRC to be a subversive organization in 1954.

The station on channel 32 began commercially as one of the first UHF TV stations in the United States in 1954 as KSAN-TV, owned by the Patterson family, operators of KSAN radio, showing an amalgam of boxing and wrestling matches, medical conferences, and old movies.

Spellman defended Senator Joseph McCarthy's 1953 investigations of Communist subversives in the federal government, stating at an April 1954 breakfast attended by the Senator that McCarthy had " told us about the Communists and about Communist methods " and that he was " not only against communism — but ... against the methods of the Communists ".

The Bridges at Toko-Ri is a 1954 film based on a novel by James Michener about a naval aviator assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War.

" In 1954, Karol Wojtyła, later Pope John Paul II, defended his doctoral thesis on " An Evaluation of the Possibility of Constructing a Christian Ethics on the Basis of the System of Max Scheler.

Bonelli hired journalist Leo Katcher to ghost-write Billion Dollar Blackjack: The Story of Corruption and the Los Angeles Times ( 1954 ), in which Bonelli, as the ostensible author, defended himself and attacked the Chandlers.

After the 1954 Yangtze River Floods, in 1956, Mao Zedong authored " Swimming ", a poem about his fascination with a dam on the Yangtze River.

* Beat poet Allen Ginsberg described a visit to the place in his 1954 poem ' Sieste in Xbalba '.

* Rip Van Winkle ( 1932 – 1954 ) Grofe worked on this tone poem for over two decades, before starting over and reworking the thematic material into the Hudson River Suite

Ammons, whose Collected Poems 1951-1971 won a National Book Award in 1973 and whose long poem Garbage earned him another in 1993 ; Theodore Roethke and his The Waking ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1954 ); James Merrill and his epic poem of communication with the dead, The Changing Light at Sandover ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1977 ); Louise Glück for her The Wild Iris ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1993 ); W. S.

Among his better known works are the Variations for Orchestra ( 1954 – 5 ); the Double Concerto for harpsichord, piano and two chamber orchestras ( 1959 – 61 ); the Piano Concerto ( 1964 – 65 ), written as an 85th birthday present for Igor Stravinsky ; the Concerto for Orchestra ( 1969 ), loosely based on a poem by Saint-John Perse ; and the Symphony of Three Orchestras ( 1976 ).

Jacob Benjamin Katznelson ( 1855 – 1930 ) wrote the poem, " Alilot Gibbor ha-Yehudim Yehudah ha-Makkabi le-Veit ha-Hashmona ' im " ( 1922 ); the Yiddish writer Moses Schulstein wrote the dramatic poem, " Yehudah ha-Makkabi " ( in A Layter tsu der Zun, 1954 ); Jacob Fichmann's " Yehudah ha-Makkabi " is one of the heroic tales included in Sippurim le-Mofet ( 1954 ).

" Lift Every Voice and Sing " — often called " The Negro National Hymn ", " The Negro National Anthem ", " The Black National Anthem ", or " The African-American National Anthem "— is a song written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson ( 1871 – 1938 ) and set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson ( 1873 – 1954 ) in 1900.

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Igor Stravinsky wrote a musical work in 1954 the year after Thomas ' death, " In Memoriam Dylan Thomas ", that included the poem to commemorate him.

This poem, published in Tabriz in 1954 and written in colloquial Azerbaijani, became popular among Iranians and the people of Azerbaijan.

Among examples, Cooper cites Marie's refusal in Willow Gables to compromise with an unjust authority as reflecting the sentiments expressed in Larkin's poem " Places, Loved Ones " ( 1954 ).

After World War II he settled in Australia from 1950, making his mark with the satirical poem Rob the Robber ( 1954 ).

Bursa published his first poem in 1954.

Dudek published his first long poem, Europe, in 1954.

Her first book, Yew Hall, a novel for adults, was published in 1954 when she was over sixty and she describes it as ‘ a poem to celebrate my love of the house .’ There followed a series of children ’ s books, all set in The Manor, in which she brings to life the people who she imagines might have lived there.

Berggolts also wrote many times about heroic and glorious events in the history of Russia, such as " Pervorossyisk, 1950, ( a poem about the Altay commune organized by the workers of Petrograd ), Faithfulness, 1954, ( a tragedy about the defence of Sevastopol in 1941-1942 ), and They Were Living in Leningrad, 1944, ( a play about the blockade of Leningrad ).

D ' Arcy's byline appeared in a comic book in 1954 when the poem was illustrated by Jack Davis and Basil Wolverton for Mad # 10 ( April 1954 ).