Word: 71st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walter B. Pitkin, glum champion of happiness (Life Begins at Forty), announced that he would take no notice of his 71st birthday: "There won't be any candles on the cake because there won't be any cake. I never celebrate anything, not even Christmas. Every day is the same to me." When the big day came, he was still working hard at his newest guide to success, Make Life Worth Living...
Second Look. In Manhattan's 71st Regiment armory, lingerie models gave buyers a peep at the industry's new look in lingerie. It was exciting enough to start wags chasing models (see cut). But the new taffeta ruffled petticoats (some designed to show an inch below dresses), teddies trimmed with a six-inch embroidered net design, and haremlike ankle-length pantaloons for sleeping were serious business to the lingerie industry. Thanks to them, it hoped to boost its sales up from 1947's record high of about $430 million...
...Cheers. As the Legion's advance guard arrived this week, Legionnaires seemed a little puzzled by all the todo. They talked mostly about business. They had 800 resolutions to consider, ranging from veterans' housing to immigration. In Madison Square Garden and the 71st Infantry Regiment Armory, they would listen to a whole flock of headline speakers: Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, the Air Forces' Tooey Spaatz, Defense Secretary James Forrestal, New York's Governor Tom Dewey, and Britain's Captain Sir Ian Fraser, president of the British Legion...
Harvard track took another long step forward last weekend when 10 Varsity specialists vaulted; throw, and hurdled their way to a third-place tie in he 71st annual outdoor IC4A championships on sun-backed Franklin Field, Philadelphia NYU, with 36 points, was the winner, Michigan State scored 25 points for second place, and the Crimson and Penn State each had 24 Forty-four other colleges also...
...prompt support of grey-goateed Ma came passionate, pockmarked Yang Ti-chung, a Western-clad tribesman of the 71st generation from Kweichow. Yang said he represented 50 million Yi and Miao people, almost half the population of Sikang, Kwangsi, Szechwan, Yunnan and Hunan.* Yang invoked the shade of Sun Yatsen, also threatened withdrawal...