Word: 65th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...higher than an "angel's footstool," is frigid, closemouthed COMINCH Ernest J. King, who was eligible for retirement last year but was retained in his post by the President. Last week he celebrated his 65th birthday. The only other men in the Navy who wear an admiral's four stars on active line duty: > White-haired, canny Chester W. Nimitz, 58, boss in the Pacific; shaggy, bull-tongued William Frederick Halsey Jr., 61, commander of the South Pacific and the only one of the full admirals besides King himself who is a naval aviator; ruddy, meticulous Harold...
Marvin H. Mclntyre, White House secretary for the last ten years, spent his 65th birthday confined to his house, after several weeks' recuperation from overwork...
...Crosby was not the first casualty of the fight. With nips from his bottle, Referee Willie Green had fought off cold and exhaustion until the 65th round. Then he passed out. The last twelve rounds were fought without a referee...
Last week one more Roosevelt shrine was preserved for posterity. The old five-story town house in Manhattan's East 65th Street, where Franklin Roosevelt went in 1921 to fight his way back from his crippling illness, and where in 1932 he heard the returns that elected him President, became a part of Hunter College (New York City's municipal college for women, three blocks away). Some arch-Republicans were instrumental in creating this memorial...
...afternoon the procession continued: East 65th Street to Washington Square, Washington Square to 65th Street. Mrs. Roosevelt carried her prints, two Chinese lamps, a bowl of glass daisies. The vans disgorged their cargoes: an old cane-bottomed rocker that the President likes, a walnut highboy, a high chair, a barrel with a box of soap chips sticking...