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...Partisan performance of Rigoletto, British and Yugoslav soldiers sat next to each other with Tommy guns resting on their knees. (At a banquet in celebration of Tito's 53rd birthday, British General Sir John Harding, U.S. General William Livesay, and other Allied officers dined & drank with their Partisan "enemies...
Wendell Lewis Willkie, on what would have been his 53rd birthday, was posthumously honored by Freedom House, liberal, non-political educational organization, which officially announced a campaign to raise $250,000 for the purchase of a nine-story Manhattan building (occupied for 26 years by the old New York Club), planned to dedicate it as the Wendell L. Willkie Memorial Building on the first anniversary of his death...
Celebrities at the Stork. One day her father's old friend, Quentin Reynolds, almost the only friend she had in New York then, took her to a 53rd Street bistro just coming into vogue, the Stork Club. There, while Reynolds waited for a friend, Anita haltingly sipped an orangeade. The people she met were all fond of Bud Counihan; they found it, now, remarkably easy to be fond of his girl Anita. In a matter of weeks her friends had increased from one to 201; in a matter of months, Bud's beautiful daughter was the toast...
...specially briefed Allied dive bombers. Colonel General Eduard Dietl, commander of Germany's seven divisions in Finland, was killed somewhere in an air crash, apparently in Finnish Lapland (although some reports said Austria). Russia's netful of captives for the week included a General Gollwitz, commanding the 53rd Army Corps...
...cribbage beside the fire, sets up a hungry cry: "Sally, bring the anchovies!" and Sally reaches for a can opener. Mrs. Spaatz keeps a steady flow of ingenious crackers, biscuits, anchovies, kippers, sardines, smoked cheese and the like crossing the Atlantic for X-House; as a gift on his 53rd birthday (June 28) Tooey will get a Smithfield...