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Elsewhere in Texas, John Nance Garner unbuckled his belt and took it easy by playing piggyback with great-grandson John Garner Curry, 2½ (see cut). The ex-Vice President was looking no farther ahead than his 70th birthday, next fortnight...
...Dawson Springs, Ky., Senator Alben W. Barkley very nearly missed reaching his 70th birthday next fortnight: the auto he was riding in was struck by another on a bridge. The other plunged 35 feet, injuring the driver's head; Barkley's car stayed aloft, with the Senator inside, uninjured but shaken...
...Chicago, South State Street's Pacific Garden Mission, where in 1886 a Chicago ballplayer named Billy Sunday was "saved" and thus given his start as the most famed of U.S. evangelists, celebrated its 70th anniversary. "Ma" Sunday, 79, Billy's widow, was on hand for the celebration. Said she: "Billy would have liked to have been here tonight. He loved this place and always came back to it. That's his old piano, and that's the old pulpit. But I know he's Up There pitching ball for the mission...
...small apartment outside Jerusalem last week, an old man read telegrams from scholars and statesmen all over the world. All week, Jerusalem had been celebrating Judah Magnes' 70th birthday. The Palestine Broadcasting Co. arranged a special program in his honor; the great Hebrew University, which he helped to found and has headed for 22 years, presented him with its first honorary degree...
Edward R. Bott, of 1021 West 70th Street Terrace, Kansas City, Missouri, and a graduate of Exeter Academy, Exeter...