* Tony Atlas ( born 1954 ), a professional wrestler, bodybuilder, and powerlifter

Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Kurosawa directed approximately a film a year, including a number of highly regarded films such as Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Yojimbo ( 1961 ).

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( ; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954 ), was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist.

* Adrian Severin ( born 1954 ), Romanian politician and Member of the European Parliament

* Adrian Vandenberg ( born 1954 ), Dutch rock guitarist

* Adrian Zmed ( born 1954 ), American television personality and film actor

During his 72 years of Imamat ( 1885 – 1957 ), the community celebrated his Golden ( 1937 ), Diamond ( 1946 ) and Platinum ( 1954 ) Jubilees.

Originally used in Baker House to signify the Ivy League university tradition, on his return to Finland Aalto used it in a number of key buildings, in particular, in several of the buildings in the new Helsinki University of Technology campus ( starting in 1950 ), Säynatsalo Town Hall ( 1952 ), Helsinki Pensions Institute ( 1954 ), Helsinki House of Culture ( 1958 ), as well as in his own summer house, the so-called Experimental House in Muuratsalo ( 1957 ).

Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), the First and Second Boer Wars ( 1880 – 81 and 1899 – 1902 ), the First ( 1914 – 1918 ) and Second World Wars ( 1939 – 1945 ) and the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ).

Nin appeared in the Kenneth Anger film Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome ( 1954 ) as Astarte ; in the Maya Deren film Ritual in Transfigured Time ( 1946 ); and in Bells of Atlantis ( 1952 ), a film directed by Guiler under the name " Ian Hugo " with a soundtrack of electronic music by Louis and Bebe Barron.

In addition to creating Li ' l Abner, Capp also co-created two other newspaper strips: Abbie an ' Slats with magazine illustrator Raeburn van Buren in 1937, and Long Sam with cartoonist Bob Lubbers in 1954, as well as the Sunday " topper " strips Washable Jones, Small Fry ( aka Small Change ), and Advice fo ' Chillun.

The regiment was also involved in the Malayan Emergency from 1954 to 1956 ; the Regimental Headquarters and one squadron was based at Ipoh, while the remaining squadrons were based at Taiping and Raub.

General Cannon retired in 1954 as Commanding General, Tactical Air Command.

He went on to be Station Commander at RAF Wahn in 1954, Deputy Chief of Staff at Headquarters Second Tactical Air Force in 1961 and Director of the Defence Operations Staff on formation of the Ministry of Defence in 1964.

* 507th Tactical Control Group ( 2 September 1950 – 1 July 1954 )

The USAF transferred thirteen combat wings from its Tactical Air Command plus one air depot wing from Air Material Command, and relocated the units to USAFE during the period from April 1951 through December 1954.

* 432d Tactical Reconnaissance Group, March 18, 1954 – Feb. 5, 1958

From 1954 to 1958, the 19th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron also flew the reconnaissance version of the B-45 known as the RB-45.

* 1954 – Pat Metheny, American guitarist and composer ( Pat Metheny Group )

* 1954 – Jack Blades, American musician ( Night Ranger, Rubicon, Damn Yankees, and Tak Matsumoto Group )

In 1954, when the United States dispatched the Military Assistance Advisory Group for West Pakistan, the East Pakistan Parliament signed a statement, which denounced Pakistan's government for signing a military pact with the United States.

Measurements of the energy and arrival directions of the ultra-high energy primary cosmic rays by the techniques of " density sampling " and " fast timing " of extensive air showers were first carried out in 1954 by members of the Rossi Cosmic Ray Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Clark et al., Phys.

The village Oosterbeek is associated with the Bilderberg Group, as the group's first meeting took place at the Hotel de Bilderberg, in May 1954.

On 8 November 1954, the 474th Fighter Bomber Group was transferred to Clovis AFB from Taegu AB, South Korea after fighting in the Korean War.

The first British recordings of skiffle were carried out by Colyer's new band in 1954, but it was the release by Decca of two skiffle tracks by Barber's Jazz Band under the name of " The Lonnie Donegan Skiffle Group " in late 1955 that transformed the fortunes of skiffle.

His continued expansion of the company into new sectors — such as chemicals ( 1939 ), technology ( 1945 ), cosmetics ( 1952 ), marketing, engineering, and manufacturing ( 1954 ), tea ( 1962 ), and software services ( 1968 )— earned Tata Group international recognition.

He served as Director, Weapons Systems Evaluation Group ( WSEG ) from 1951 to 1954.

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.

: 19th Bombardment Group ( B-29 ) ( June 1950-May 1954 )

: 307th Bombardment Group ( B-29 ), ( August 1950-November 1954 )

: 98th Bombardment Group ( B-29 ), ( August 1950-July 1954 )

It was deactivated in 1954 as part of the demobilisation of forces in Korea in the aftermath of the war, being reduced to a Commonwealth Brigade Group, and from May 1956 until its final withdrawal in August 1957 to a Commonwealth Contingent of battalion strength.

A 1954 federal document noted that the Quality Romance Group, owned by Everett M. and Claire C. Arnold, with an office at 347 Madison Avenue, in New York City, published two titles as Arnold Publications, Inc., two titles as Comic Favorites, Inc., and 14 titles as Comic Magazines, Inc.

For a quarter century they were leading figures in the Philosophical Enquiry Group, an annual confluence of Catholic philosophers held at Spode House in Staffordshire that was established by Father Columba Ryan in 1954.

He also joined the Group Theatre, where he began acting in many plays and was introduced to a young Elia Kazan, who would later work with him on A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ) and On the Waterfront ( 1954 ).

Between 1954 and 1992 Lisburn contained the operational headquarters of No 31 Belfast Group Royal Observer Corps who operated from a protected nuclear bunker on Knox Road within Thiepval Barracks.

* Steven Kasher ; The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History ( 1954 – 1968 ) Abbeville Publishing Group ( Abbeville Press, Inc .), 2000

From 1945 to 1954, British painter David Bomberg taught art at the Polytechnic forming the ' Borough Group ' of artists with his pupils.

In his Path to Nigerian Freedom ( 1947 ) — the first systematic federalist manifesto by a Nigerian politician — he advocated federalism as the only basis for equitable national integration and, as head of the Action Group, he led demands for a federal constitution, which was introduced in the 1954 Lyttleton Constitution, following primarily the model proposed by the Western Region delegation led by him.

Formerly designated as Sixteenth Air Force, the command was the first newly established Numbered Air Force ( NAF ) by the USAF after World War II, It was activated in 1954 as a Joint Military Group to provide command and control of USAF activities in Spain, being designated a NAF in 1956.

Established as Joint United States Military Group, Air Administration ( Spain ), on 20 May 1954.

Activated on 20 May 1954 at Madrid, Spain, it was attached to the Joint U. S. Military Group, which oversaw implementation of the 1953 Spanish-American Defense Cooperation Agreement.