Word: 63rd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your issue of Sept. 13 your news item . . . states that Her Royal Majesty Queen Wilhelmina spent a Hausfrau's day at home with Prince Bernard on her 63rd birthday...
Cardinal Pacelli was chosen Pope on the third ballot. No Pope had been chosen so quickly since 1623. Pacelli was the first Papal Secretary of State to become Pope since 1775. He was elected on his 63rd birthday. Said one Cardinal, who watched Pacelli while the votes were being counted : "I have never seen anyone look so pale and yet continue breathing...
...cent." For the next month he lived in a be wildering maze of instructions in codes, radio transmission, photography , microphotography. His code book was Rachel Field's novel All This and Heaven Too. Soon he was sent to the U.S. to stay at Manhattan's 63rd St. Y.M.C.A. - "most of the crooks in America stay there," said his Nazi boss...
...politics well nigh outstank those of William Tweed's New York. Mickey Finn dispensed his deadly cocktails. Fifty thousand men existed solely on free lunch provided by saloons. The mass-murderer H. H. Holmes destroyed from 30 to 300 victims in the torture chambers of his "castle" on 63rd Street...