Word: 60th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Westport, Conn, home, normally cheerful Helen Adams Keller, famed blind deaf-mute, observed her 60th birthday as "a day of mourning." Through her secretary she explained: "The world is in such a state I cannot be gay by any manner of means...
...boyish-looking Dr. Lahey still had trouble convincing his patients that he was old enough to operate. Last week, still bursting with youthful energy, he celebrated his 60th birthday. At a party he was given a surprise ceremonial Birthday Volume of scientific articles by 59 of his colleagues, including such noted men as Drs. Walter Clement Alvarez of the Mayo Clinic, Andrew Conway Ivy of Northwestern, George Washington Crile of Cleveland. While his guests lit their cigars and settled back in their chairs, the doors to the dining hall opened wide and in trooped 50 of Dr. Lahey...
...down as a seamstress and sewing teacher. While Mitsumasa was in school, he got a job copying documents, each week gave his pay envelope to his mother, unopened. He went on to the Naval Academy, where he was a popular mediocrity. He finished at the centre of his class - 60th among 125 cadets. At 21 he wrote, in clumsy, inept calligraphy, a pathetic little self-portrait: "My strongest characteristic: gluttony-I never get enough to eat. My credo: self-respect-I believe in myself. My weak points: none. My favorite book: Momotaro [a heroic fairy tale]. My favorite dish: boiled...
John Llewellyn Lewis was in his 60th year, his 21st as president of the mine workers, his fifth at the helm of C. I. O. He was an emigrant Welsh miner's brat in Iowa when, this day 50 years ago, 198 men from the coal fields met in Columbus to weld their various feuding unions into one United Mine Workers of America. Behind him and his 2,400 jubilee delegates were men long dead: John Bates, who founded the first U. S. miners' union in 1849, and failed; the thousands of British diggers who flocked over...
Shop committees, laborers' clubs, Soviets, Party and State functionaries felicitated Hero Stalin, but among the congratulations from abroad one came from an old enemy now turned friend-Adolf Hitler: "I beg you to accept my sincerest congratulations on your 60th birthday," wired the Führer. "I enclose with them my best wishes for your personal welfare as well as for a happy future for the peoples of the friendly Soviet Union." The Nazi press meanwhile carefully eulogized Mr. Stalin as the "revolutionary führer of Russia...