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...Hand. In Medellin, Colombia, Candido Zapata, 81, veteran of four marital ventures, attended the christening of his 54th child...
...54th lap, his Ferrari skidded out of control. In the stands by the waterfront, Monte Carlo's glossy postwar idlers gasped and screamed. Igor's auto spun crazily and came to rest, backside-forward against a pile of straw. Slowly, with compressed lips, the prince emerged from his wrecked car, walked with dignity into the bar of the Hotel de Paris and was not seen again...
Harvard finishers: Bill Baker, 18th; John Cogan, 28th; Captain Huna Rosenfeld, 29th; Joe Leeming, 39th; George Anderson, 48th; Arden Albee, 54th, Harvard Wilbur, 58th...
Last week, on his 54th birthday, after a long wartime evacuation, Eros, the winged, aluminum god of love, returned to his Piccadilly pedestal. Cheers greeted him as he drove up in a lorry. A drunk tossed a carnation with the words "From one Eros to another," and ducked away from alert bobbies. Flower-Girl Polly was ready with 15 fresh roses to garland her hero. An official stopped her. "A bit frivolous," he said. "Got to draw the line somewhere, y'know, but we'll hang 'em on the scaffolding." There was some dull speechmaking. But what...
Dialectics & Devils. That day was Palmiro Togliatti's 54th birthday. He obviously intended to enjoy the day. Togliatti began by reminding the Christian Democrats that he himself had studied canon law (at Turin University) and needed no help in its interpretation. He recalled his words to last year's Communist Party Congress: "Since the . . . Church will continue to be the very center of our country-and hence any conflict with it would disturb the consciences of many citizens-we [Communists] must arrange carefully our relations with the Catholic Church...