Word: 60th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a month's visit in the U.S., Canada and Britain, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru arrived back home just in time to celebrate his 60th birthday. Cheering crowds greeted him at the airport and along the route to a huge public meeting in Bombay, where he accepted from admiring countrymen a $30,000 trinket: a foot-long miniature of the Asoka Pillar (whose crest is the Great Seal of India), made of gold and twinkling with 60 diamonds...
Only once was he booed: at the Cleveland air races, by two large, anonymous men sitting in the spectators' section marked "Public Officials." The rest of the time he was well received. At a luncheon on his 60th birthday, the Republicans of Parkman sang "Happy Birthday, dear Bob." At Lakewood's Westlake Hotel at a gathering of 400 clubwomen, a lady soloist sang Thank God for a Garden, coming down hard on the last line: "Thank God for you." She meant the Senator, she explained...
President Li had already picked his new Premier; precise, poker-faced General Ho Ying-chin, formerly Minister of National Defense and chief delegate to the U.N. Military Committee. In Hangchow to pass his 60th birthday, Ho first demurred that he was unworthy of the job, then wired Li his acceptance...
Gerhard Marcks is Germany's best-known, and perhaps its unluckiest living sculptor. By last week some 4,000 visitors had trooped through an exhibition in Hamburg celebrating Marcks's 60th birthday, and thousands more would see the show on its coming tour of other western German cities. His lean but otherwise classical collection of bronze and ceramic figures, done with clean, quiet simplicity, drew nothing but raves from the critics. It was a far cry from the mid-'30s, when his sculptures, seized by the state, toured Germany as warning examples of what Adolf Hitler considered...
...Louis-born T. S. Eliot, now a British subject and Britain's most influential living poet, got a book for his 60th birthday. Specially published, it contained nosegays of one sort & another from 48 of Eliot's contemporaries in the arts. Sample posy from W. H. Auden...