Word: 60th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democratic National Convention (TIME, July 7), the 40th, the 50th, the 60th, the 70th ballot passed. All records were broken. In 1860, the Democratic Convention at Charleston had balloted 57 times before splitting over the slavery issue, after which the southern delegates withdrew and the northern wing nominated Douglas on the second ballot. In 1840, the Whig Convention at Harrisburg had taken "many, many" ballots ? nobody counted them?before nominating W. H. Harrison. But even if the number of ballots at these Conventions had been as great, the endurance record would have been less, for in the earlier days...
...prominent personality in the music world celebrated his 60th birthday; City of Vienna made this the occasion for a gala week. Honors both frothy and substantial were recklessly poured upon the head of Richard Strauss. He was handed the keys of the city, he was created generalissimo of the combined musical forces, productions of numbers of his works-including his earliest and his latest-were arranged, he was presented with a villa erected at municipal expense in the gardens of the palace of the ex-Crown Prince...
Nellie Melba, near her 60th year, still gathers laurels as a prima donna of opera. She was the great star of this year's operatic season in England. Her voice is said to be still astonishingly fine. The season was another essay at opera in English. The vernacular, as usual, did not work so well. The two chief artists were Melba, born British, and Edward Johnson, American, and a Metropolitan Opera star. These two sang in French and Italian, while the rest of the casts sang in English. The English critics patriotically let the grotesqueries of opera in the vernacular...
...including four University undergraduates. Leon de Turenne '21, University tennis captain and president of the United States Intercollegiate Tennis Association, led the University players, being ranked 59 in the national roster, just after Banks of Yale, intercollegiate titlist for 1920. D. P. Robinson '20 followed close behind, being rated 60th. Both these players were among the youngest ranked. J. B. Fenno '21 of last year's team was ranked 137th while K. S. Ptaffman of the Freshman class showed unexpected strength and was ranked 136th...
Prof. George Lyman Kittredge '82, LL. D., professor of English Literature, will celebrate his 60th birthday today. Prof. Kittredge, who has taught at the University since 1888, is the living authority on Shakespeare and a widely-known Chaucer scholar. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is the president of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts...