Also well-received were the " Secret " books for young readers: The Secret of Saturn's Rings ( 1954 ), Secret of the Martian Moons ( 1955 ), and The Secret of the Ninth Planet ( 1959 ).

The 08 / 15 film trilogy of 1954 – 55 concerns a sensitive young German soldier who rather be playing the piano who fights on the Eastern Front without understanding why, and no mention is made of genocidal aspects of Germany's war in East.

The son of an Iranian diplomat, he travelled widely as a child, living in 17 countries by age 11 ; then, as a young man, he represented Iran as a basketball player in the 1948 Olympic Games and served on the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine from 1952 to 1954.

In October 1955, after the general strike in 1954, young military reformists staged a coup that installed a provisional junta.

Valéry served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal, a grant given between 1919 and 1954 to young French painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians.

In Rosemary Sutcliff's historical adventure novel The Eagle of the Ninth ( 1954 ), a young Roman officer searches to recover the lost Roman eagle standard of his father's legion in the northern part of Great Britain.

After her role in RKO's Sudden Fear, Crawford appeared in films ranging from the camp western film Johnny Guitar ( 1954 ) to the drama Autumn Leaves ( 1956 ), opposite a young Cliff Robertson, a movie which showed Crawford in a great many kissing scenes which shocked some audiences.

Ravel also served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal, a grant given between 1919 and 1954 to young French painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians.

Anderson used the award money to establish a singing competition to help support young singers ; recipients of which include Camilla Williams ( 1943, 1944 ), Nathaniel Dickerson ( 1944 ), Louise Parker ( 1944 ), Rawn Spearman ( 1949 ), Georgia Laster ( 1951 ), Betty Allen ( 1952 ), Shirlee Emmons ( 1953 ), Judith Raskin ( 1952, 1953 ), Miriam Holman ( 1954 ), Shirley Verrett ( 1957 ), and Joyce Mathis ( 1967 ).

A regular at the Grand Ole Opry, in 1954 Snow persuaded the directors to allow a young Elvis Presley to appear on stage.

In 1954, Story Land, a theme park designed for young children, opened in Glen.

In 1954, Schneider for the first time portrayed a royal, playing a young Queen Victoria in the Austrian film Mädchenjahre einer Königin ( known in the U. S. as The Story of Vickie and in Britain as Victoria in Dover ).

In 1954 he travelled with his young wife Myrto Altinoglou to Paris where he entered the Conservatory and studied musical analysis under Olivier Messiaen and conducting under Eugene Bigot.

On 7 February 1954 Lord Moran, doctor to the Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, recorded in his diary: " Randolph, who is writing a life of the late Lord Derby for Longman's, brought to luncheon a young man of that name.

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.

Pearl and Bostock, Sr., split when Bostock, Jr., was a young child, with Pearl relocating her son and herself first to Gary, Indiana, in 1954.

The girls were convicted on 28 August 1954, and each of them spent five years in prison as they were too young to be considered for the death penalty.

They included Andy Amato, Harvey Curtis, Walter Johnson and, notably, a young Frank Frazetta, who penciled the Sunday continuity from studio roughs from 1954 to the end of 1961 — before his fame as a fantasy artist.

He remained on the backbenches for a number of years before he was one of a group of young party members handpicked by Seán Lemass to begin a re-organisation drive for the party following the defeat at the 1954 general election.

Despite this, the young Boland failed to get elected to Dáil Éireann on his first two attempts, standing in the Dublin County constituency at the 1951 general election and again at the 1954 election.

During her young adulthood she took a number of short trips ( between 3 and 6 weeks ): to Wales and Southern England in 1951 ; to Belgium, Germany, and France in 1952 ; and two trips to Spain in 1954 and 1956.

* 1954 – Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan military officer and politician, President of Venezuela

Mumia Abu-Jamal ( born Wesley Cook on April 24, 1954 ) is an American convict, serving a life sentence for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.

In 1954, after escaping of a high-ranking officer of the Ministry of Public Security to the west, of Józef Światło ( born Izaak Fleischfarb ) who took orders from the high politicians, such as order to arrest Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, it was decided to abolish the Ministry of Public Security.

Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda ( also Strössner or Strößner ; November 3, 1912 – August 16, 2006 ), was a Paraguayan military officer and the country's president from 1954 to 1989.

Colonel Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán (; 14 September 1913 – 27 January 1971 ) was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who served as Defense Minister of Guatemala from 1944 to 1951, and as President of Guatemala from 1951 to 1954.

After the 1954 Guatemalan coup d ' état, CIA case officer Frank Wisner organised Operation PBHistory, meant to find and secure Árbenz government documents that might prove that the Soviet Union controlled Guatemala ; and, in so doing, PBHistory meant to provide usable intelligence regarding other Soviet connections and Communist personnel in Latin America.

Under Cord Meyer, the CIA officer in charge of overseeing broadcast services from 1954 to 1971, the CIA took a position of minimal government interference in radio affairs and programming.

Among the many films she appeared in during this period were The Robe ( 1953 ), Young Bess ( 1953 ), Désirée ( 1954 ), The Egyptian ( 1954 ), Guys and Dolls ( 1955 ) – " in which she's delightfully proper ( and improper ) as the Salvation Army officer Sarah Brown " – The Big Country ( 1958 ), Elmer Gantry ( 1960 ), ( directed by her second husband, Richard Brooks ), Spartacus ( 1960 ), All the Way Home ( 1963 ) – a film of James Agee's novel, A Death in the Family – and The Happy Ending ( 1969 ), again directed by Brooks and for which she received her second Oscar nomination.

He also made a brief speaking part appearance in Luchino Visconti's Italian film Senso in 1954, at the beginning opera house scene, as an Austrian officer.

Murrow produced a number of episodes of the show that dealt with the Communist witch-hunt hysteria ( one of the more notable episodes resulted in a U. S. military officer, Milo Radulovich, being acquitted, after being charged with supporting Communism ), before embarking on a broadcast on March 9, 1954 that has been referred to as television's finest hour.

Within a short span of time, the Military Police had the control of the state and its officer commanding submitted the report of their course of action to Major-General Iskandar Mirza in 1954.

Kuts, who was an army officer during his sportive career, was first noticed internationally in 1954.

In 1954 his father Ugo ( a police officer ), his mother Pearl and his sisters Anna and Maria emigrated from Italy to Timmins, ( where another sister, Adrianna, was later born ).

Commodore Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama, CF, MSD, OStJ, Fijian Navy, known commonly as Frank Bainimarama and sometimes by the chiefly title Ratu < ref name = Herald > Herald on Sunday, Phil Taylor, < u > Peaceful island village belies turmoil of national politics < u >, 2006-12-10, page 20 ( interview with Bainimarama's brother ).</ ref > ( born 27 April 1954 ), is a Fijian naval officer and politician.

In 1954, Regnery published Welch's biography of John Birch, an American Baptist missionary in China who was killed by Chinese Communists after he became a U. S. intelligence officer in World War II.

Nawabzada Mohammed Ali Bogra (; October 19, 1909 — January 23, 1963 ) was a well-known and notable Pakistani Foreign service officer of Bengali origin, serving as the third Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1953 until 1955, and prior to that, was also the Foreign Minister of Pakistan from 1954 to 1955.

* Nick Houghton ( born 1954 ), British Army officer

Petrov, despite his relatively junior diplomatic status, was a colonel in ( what became in 1954 ) the KGB, the Soviet secret police, and his wife was an MVD officer.

Yves Guérin-Sérac, a former officer of the French Army and founder of the OAS right-wing terrorist group during the Algerian War of Independence ( 1954 – 62 ), set up " Aginter Press " in Lisbon and participated with the PIDE in covert operations.

He was commissioned as an officer in the United States Navy upon graduation from the United States Naval Academy in 1954.

He died in captivity in Vladimir Prison in 1954, the highest ranked German officer to die in Soviet captivity.

In 1954, Wright was recruited as principal scientific officer for MI5.