Sondheim wrote a book of annotations of his lyrics titled Finishing the Hat ( 2010 ), a collection of his lyrics " from productions dating 1954 – 1981.

Interestingly the copyright date for " Delighted, I'm Sure " is 1954 by Sondheim.

" In 1947, he took eleven songs George had written but never used, provided them with new lyrics, and incorporated them into the Betty Grable film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim and he later wrote comic lyrics for Billy Wilder's movie Kiss Me, Stupid -- although most critics believe his final major work was for the 1954 Judy Garland film, A Star Is Born ).

Hammerstein also wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones, an adaptation of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen with an all-black cast that became a 1943 Broadway musical and a 1954 film.

" I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly ," he wrote in another letter in 1954.

In 1954, he wrote, "... many Americans ... were asserting loudly that McCarthy had created a ' reign of terror.

Graham Greene wrote his Twenty-One Stories between 1929 and 1954.

In 1954, Prime Minister Nehru wrote a memo calling for India's borders to be clearly defined and demarcated ; in line with previous Indian philosophy, Indian maps showed a border that, in some places, lay north of the McMahon Line.

He wrote the 1954 song " The Letter " which contained the nonsense lyric, " the puppetutes of love.

Cyrus L. Day relates that, " she had never seen it in Finland, she wrote to me in 1954, but had learned about it from a Spaniard named Raphael Gaston, who called it a whip knot, and told her it was used in the mountains of Spain by muleteers and herdsmen.

In 1954, he wrote an article on the history of the H-bomb, which presents his opinion that both men contributed very significantly to the breakthrough.

A. W. Lewis is said to have begun the field of Economic Development and consequently the idea of human capital when he wrote in 1954 the " Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour.

Hart also wrote some screenplays, including Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ) – for which he received an Oscar nomination – Hans Christian Andersen ( 1952 ) and A Star Is Born ( 1954 ).

On July 1, 1954 Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a memo directing that the maps of India be revised to show definite boundaries on all frontiers.

He wrote The Enchanted Duplicator with Walt Willis in 1954, a piece of fiction about science fiction fandom modelled on John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.

Sykes and Milligan are credited as the co-writers of all but the first six of the 26 episodes in Series 5 ( 1954 – 55 ) and three episodes of Series 6 ( 1955 – 56 ); Sykes also wrote a 15-minute Goon Show Christmas special, The Missing Christmas Parcel, broadcast during the Children's Hour on 8 December 1955.

In 1954, when the shades of depression were thickening fast, Ernest Hemingway wrote an emotional letter in which he tried to steady himself as he thought James would: " Pretty soon I will have to throw this away so I better try to be calm like Henry James.

He wrote more than 150 scores for Italian and international productions from the 1930s until his death in 1979 — an average of three scores each year over a 46 year period, and in his most productive period from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s he wrote as many as ten scores every year, and sometimes more, with a remarkable thirteen film scores to his credit in 1954.

Grave of Georges AuricEspecially notable among his film music is the lavishly impressionistic score that he wrote for Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast ( 1946 ); other films include Passport to Pimlico ( 1948 ), Silent Dust ( 1949 ), The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ), Moulin Rouge ( 1952 ), The Titfield Thunderbolt ( 1953 ), Roman Holiday ( 1953 ), The Wages of Fear ( 1953 ), The Divided Heart ( 1954 ), Lola Montes ( 1955 ), Rififi ( 1956 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1956 ), Bonjour Tristesse ( 1958 ), The Night Heaven Fell ( 1958 ), Goodbye Again ( 1961 ), and Therese and Isabelle ( 1968 ).

He also wrote or compiled several other books, including Burl Ives ' Songbook ( 1953 ), Tales of America ( 1954 ), Sea Songs of Sailing, Whaling, and Fishing ( 1956 ), and The Wayfaring Stranger's Notebook ( 1962 ).

Louis Pauwels wrote Monsieur Gurdjieff ( first edition published in Paris, France in 1954 by Editions du Seuil ).

The marque Facel Vega was created in 1954 by Jean Daninos ( brother of the humorist Pierre Daninos, who wrote Les Carnets du Major Thompson ), although the Facel company had been established by the Bonzavia Company in 1939 as a subcontracting company for the aviations industry.

In 1954, in a letter to Yitzchak Ben Tzvi, Israel's second President, the Rebbe wrote: " From the time that I was a child attending cheder, and even before, the vision of the future Redemption began to take form in my imagination – the Redemption of the Jewish People from their final Exile, a redemption of such magnitude and grandeur through which the purpose of the suffering, the harsh decrees and annihilation of Exile will be understood ... "

In response Burke wrote his first song, " Christmas Presents From Heaven ," which he recorded in the local penny arcade and played for her on 18 December 1954, the day before her death at the age of 54.

)" Together they produced the films Apache ( 1954 ), Vera Cruz ( 1954 ), Marty ( 1955 ) ( which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Palme d ' Or award at the Cannes Film Festival ), The Kentuckian ( 1955 ), Trapeze ( 1956 ), The Bachelor Party ( 1956 ), Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ), Run Silent, Run Deep ( 1958 ), Separate Tables ( 1958 ), ( 1959 ), Take a Giant Step ( 1959 ), Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1960 ), and ( 1960 ).

Wilbur Schram ( 1954 ) also indicated that we should also examine the impact that a message has ( both desired and undesired ) on the target of the message.

As the 1954 congressional elections approached, and it became evident that the Republicans were in danger of losing their thin majority in both houses, Eisenhower was among those blaming the Old Guard for the losses, and took up the charge to stop suspected efforts by the right wing to take control of the GOP.

The Democrats gained a majority in both houses in the 1954 election.

After filming Lucky Me with Phil Silvers and Young at Heart ( both 1954 ) with Frank Sinatra, Day chose not to renew her contract with Warner Brothers.

Gate of Hell, a 1953 film by Teinosuke Kinugasa, was the first movie that filmed using Eastmancolor film, Gate of Hell was both Daiei's first color film and the first Japanese color movie to be released outside of Japan, receiving an Oscar in 1954 for Best Costume Design by Sanzo Wada and an Honorary Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Also in 1954, both another Kurosawa film, Ikiru, and Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story were in competition at the 4th Berlin International Film Festival.

On 10 October 1951 Grenada held its first general elections on the basis of universal adult suffrage-United Labour won 6 of the 8 elected seats on the Legislative Council in both the 1951 and 1954 elections.

By 1954, Olympic Games apparatus and events for both men and women had been standardized in modern format, and uniform grading structures ( including a point system from 1 to 15 ) had been agreed upon.

In July 1953, Hoxha handed over the foreign affairs and defense portfolios to loyal followers, but he kept both the top party post and the premiership until 1954, when Shehu became Albania's prime minister.

* 1954 – First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.

) was a Scottish footballer who played for the Scotland national football team in both the 1954 and 1958 FIFA World Cups.

Anderson and Evans performed the play on television twice, in 1954 and 1962, with Maurice Evans winning an Emmy Award the 1962 production and Anderson winning the award for both presentations.

It is administered as a French overseas territory, as the result of an agreement with the United Kingdom in 1954, but sovereignty is disputed with ownership claimed by both Mauritius and the Seychelles.

In 1954, Williams was also inducted by the San Diego Hall of Champions into the Breitbard Hall of Fame honoring San Diego's finest athletes both on and off the playing surface.

* Algerian War ( 1954 – 1962 ) – An important decolonization war, it was a complex conflict characterized by guerrilla warfare, maquis fighting, terrorism against civilians, use of torture on both sides and counter-terrorism operations by the French Army.

* USS Merrimack ( AO-37 ), 1942 – 1954, a Kennebec-class fleet oiler, served in both the Atlantic and Pacific during World War II

* Dave Brubeck dedicated " The Duke " ( 1954 ) to Ellington and it became a standard covered by others, both during Ellington's lifetime ( such as by Miles Davis on Miles Ahead, 1957 ) and posthumously ( such as George Shearing on I Hear a Rhapsody: Live at the Blue Note, 1992 ).

This twin role enabled him to both lead the effort to develop Nautilus, which was launched and commissioned in 1954, as well as oversee the development of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station, the first commercial pressurized water reactor nuclear power plant.

Dial M for Murder opened in theaters in May 1954 to both positive reviews and box-office triumph.

Although Kelly won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for best actress for her performances in her three big movie roles of 1954 ( Rear Window, Dial M For Murder, and The Country Girl ), she and Garland both received Golden Globe Awards for their respective performances.

Ralph Vaughan Williams composed both kinds: " festival " cantatas such as Toward the Unknown Region ( 1907 ), Five Mystical Songs ( 1911 ), and Five Tudor Portraits ( 1936 ), and sacred cantatas including Sancta civitas ( 1926 ), Benedicite ( 1930 ), Dona nobis pacem ( 1936 ), and Hodie ( 1954 ).