Highlights of the 1950s included the much-heralded marriage of Abner and Daisy Mae in 1952, the birth of their son " Honest Abe " Yokum in 1953, and in 1954, the introduction of Abner's enormous, long lost kid brother Tiny Yokum, who filled Abner's place as a bachelor in the annual Sadie Hawkins Day race.

The notion of a second commercial broadcaster in the United Kingdom had been around since the inception of ITV in 1954 and its subsequent launch in 1955 ; the idea of an ' ITV2 ' was long expected and pushed for.

Linebarger was long rumored to have been the original for " Kirk Allen ," the fantasy-haunted subject of " The Jet-Propelled Couch ," a chapter in psychologist Robert M. Lindner's best-selling 1954 collection, The Fifty-Minute Hour.

They took up a long residency at San Francisco's Black Hawk nightclub and gained great popularity touring college campuses, recording a series of albums with such titles as Jazz at Oberlin ( 1953 ), Jazz at the College of the Pacific ( 1953 ), and Brubeck's debut on Columbia Records, Jazz Goes to College ( 1954 ).

In May 1954, the Egyptian archaeologist Kamal el-Mallakh discovered a fourth pit, a long, narrow rectangle, still covered with slabs of stone weighing up to 15 tons.

This was the approach taken by the N. Bourbaki group in its Theory of Sets, published in 1954, long after Kuratowski discovered his reduction ( below ).

In 1953 – 1954, the Heinleins voyaged around the world ( mostly via ocean liner and cargo liner ), which Heinlein described in Tramp Royale, and which also provided background material for science fiction novels set aboard spaceships on long voyages, such as Podkayne of Mars and Friday.

In-flght refueling, long a dream of airmen, became a reality in 1954 with the introduction of the KC-97 Stratotanker into active service.

* April 16 – Burma-Japanese peace treaty, signed in Rangoon on November 5, 1954, comes into effect, formally ending a state of war between the two countries that had not existed for a long time.

Tove Jansson drew 21 long Moomin stories from 1954 to 1959, writing them at first by herself and then with her brother Lars Jansson.

In 1954, after returning to New York, Johns met Robert Rauschenberg and they became long term lovers.

A fifth volume, supposedly taken from his notes but of doubtful provenance, was published in 1954, long after his death.

On 19 April 1954, Zarraonandía received a tribute in Madrid in recognition of his long career in Spanish football.

* Ana Alexander ( born 1954 ), a Cuban long jumper

That subdivision, named Engelholm Gardens, a long forgotten name also, still stands, looking exactly as it did in 1954.

Sponsored by Warner Lambert's Listerine mouthwash, it was widely syndicated during 1954 – 1955, and was only five minutes ( one or two songs ) long on film, therefore used as a brief interlude or fill-in in programming schedules.

He began the story, called The End of Eternity on December 7, 1953, and finished it on February 6, 1954, by which time it was 25, 000 words long.

Northwestern maintained and strengthened its long tradition of leadership in public service and academic endeavor and became, in 1954, the first college under the jurisdiction of the Louisiana State Board of Education to offer the Master ’ s degree.

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.

Although Rego was commissioned by her father to produce a series of large scale murals to decorate the works ' canteen at his electrical factory in 1954 whilst she was still a student, Rego's artistic career effectively began in the early 1962 when she began showing with The London Group, a long established artists ' organisation which included David Hockney and Frank Auerbach among its members.

The Needles were a site of a long standing artillery battery, from the 1860s to 1954, when they were eventually decommissioned.

Shorter choral works written around this time include the carol-anthem Long long ago ( 1951 ), the introit Behold O God our Defender for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, and The House of the Mind ( 1954 ) for chorus and strings.

In 1954 Chyrsler started its decade long unsuccessful attempt to develop and market a viable car powered by turbine engine when it installed an experimental turbine they had developed specifically for vehicles in a Plymouth.

During his long career he served as Minister for Agriculture ( 1932 – 1947 ), Minister for Health and Social Welfare ( 1947 – 1948 and 1951 – 1954 ) and Minister for Finance ( 1957 – 1965 ).

his requesting, and often getting, higher wages, better working conditions, better schools -- changes that were slowly emerging even before the Supreme Court decision of 1954.

The mechanism of action of these drugs has not been completely worked out, but certain of them appear to act by reducing the oxidised form of iodine before it can iodinate thyroglobulin ( Astwood, 1954 ).

Turing died in 1954, just over two weeks before his 42nd birthday, from cyanide poisoning.

For calculations of OBP before 1954, or where sacrifice flies are not explicitly listed, the number of sacrifice flies should be assumed to be zero.

The rule was again adopted in 1939, only to be eliminated again in 1940, before being adopted for the last time in 1954.

He attended the University of Chicago, where he participated in the Ryerson Astronomical Society, received a bachelor of arts in self-proclaimed " nothing " with general and special honors in 1954, a bachelor of science in physics in 1955, and a master of science in physics in 1956 before earning a PhD in astronomy and astrophysics in 1960.

After World War II, Taglioni designed engines for Ceccato motorcycles and Mondial before joining Ducati in 1954.

In 1954, the island was destroyed by a hydrogen bomb test, just months before Godzilla first attacked Tokyo.

Just before the banana industry's largest strike in 1954, approximately 35, 000 workers held jobs on the banana plantations of the United Fruit Company ( later United Brands Company, then Chiquita Brands International ) or the Standard Fruit Company ( later brought by Castle and Cook, then Dole Food Company ).

The New York and Honduras Rosario Mining Company ( NYHRMC ) produced US $ 60 million worth of gold and silver between 1882 and 1954 before discontinuing most of its operations.

Murray's ideas proved highly influential over the ideas of Gerald Gardner ( 1884 – 1964 ), an English Wiccan who founded the tradition of Gardnerian Wicca in the 1950s before authoring the books Witchcraft Today ( 1954 ) and The Meaning of Witchcraft ( 1959 ).

Barrymore continues playing Scrooge on radio until shortly before his death in 1954.

It was initially known as the British Empire Games and was renamed to the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954 and the British Commonwealth Games in 1970, before finally gaining its current title for the 1978 edition.

The 1954 model cars were the last to use the ram's head before the rebirth in the 1980s.

He has taught at Indiana University ( 1954 – 1963 ), the University of Kentucky ( 1963 – 1967 ), Washington State University ( 1967 – 1976 ), the University of New Mexico ( 1976 – 1980 ), the University of Miami ( 1981 – 1985 ), Syracuse University ( 1987 – 1994 ) and the University of Washington before taking his current position as professor of communication at Boston University's Department of Mass Communication, Advertising and Public Relations.

The incumbent U. S. Senator, Burnet R. Maybank, was unopposed for re-election in 1954, but he died in September of that year, two months before Election Day.

One of the key factors for these feelings was footballer Tinus Bosselaar, who moved from Sparta to Feyenoord in 1954 before Sparta re-signed him, despite Feyenoord trying to prevent the deal in court.

O ' Toole began working in the theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic and with the English Stage Company, before making his television debut in 1954.

She died in 1954, before her husband ascended the throne.

In 1954, he resigned and served as Minister of Defense, before returning to office in 1955.

Rod Taylor began his acting career in Australia, appearing in such Australian films as Long John Silver ( 1954 ) before transferring to the United States to become a Hollywood leading man of the 1960s and 70s, with starring roles in The Time Machine ( 1960 ) and The Birds ( 1963 ).

Slaughter was born in Roxboro, North Carolina and joined the Cardinals in 1938 before being traded to the New York Yankees in 1954.

The film was also re-released in 1954, with a written prologue added before the opening credits, advising that gangsters such as Tom Powers and Caesar " Rico " Bandello, the title character in Little Caesar ( played by Edward G. Robinson ), are a menace that the public must confront.

In the season 1945 – 46, Excelsior gained their first success by promoting to the Eerste Klasse, the highest tier of Dutch football before professional football was introduced in 1954.

Tromsø IL then won 5 consecutive district championships in the years between 1950 and 1954, before the club was introduced into the Norwegian league system ( Northern Norwegian clubs could still not be promoted to the top division, however ).