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Last week Mr. Cox was Starting his 70th year on the staff of the famed London Library. Though he has become a familiar figure among London's great and near-great, few know where he lives, or what he does after he pads out of the library each evening at closing time. But there is scarcely a scholar in London who has not at some time sought his advice. "His name," said the London Times last week, "is said to have come more often than that of any other man alive in the paragraphs of thanks in the prefaces...
Last week, as 700 A.F.L. delegates moved quietly into San Francisco for the A.F.L.'s 70th annual convention, the faces and the pattern were familiar. President Bill Green, 78, denied reports that he would retire-as he has for many years. Secretary-Treasurer George Meany, 57, pompously chomping a cigar, was still waiting patiently to take over Green's job. No noisy battles disturbed the convention calm. "We've been around a long time," explained President George Harrison of the Railway Clerks' union. "We know each other too well to get excited." The convention yawned through...
...honor Hometown Rhymester Edgar A. Guest on his 70th birthday, Detroit proclaimed an official "Eddie Guest Day" with a band concert and engraved scroll, but banned other gifts. Reason: the committee was afraid donors would take up all the program time making speeches...
...Whenever I seemed to approach exhaustion, I was given coffee and cigarettes. They obviously contained strong stimulants . . . I was slugged over the ear once and dumped naked into a tub of ice water. I began to have hallucinations. The picture of my wife kept flashing before me. At the 70th hour I fell from my chair...
Last week Dr. Kaplan, a courtly, white-goateed scholar with almost half a century in the rabbinate behind him, walked into the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria. Fifteen hundred guests had gathered for the first in a series of testimonial dinners celebrating his 70th birthday (June n). He heard congratulatory messages from Jewish leaders, including Chaim Weizmann, Herbert Lehman and President Louis Finkelstein of Jewish Theological Seminary. They and most American Jews know Dr. Kaplan for his longtime leadership of the Reconstructionist movement-a broad effort to heal the theological divisions in U.S. Judaism...