Word: 75th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among those who attended the dinner were Thomas D. Bolles, Director of Athletics, Harvey Love, varsity crew coach, and Bert Haines, retired 150-lb. coach, who celebrates his 75th birthday today...
...when Oveta was in Washington, she talked to Will in Houston every night. (Once, when an operator asked him if his long-distance call was necessary. Will replied '"Course it is. I gotta talk to Oveta, don't I?") Last month, when Will celebrated his 75th birthday, Oveta left her Washington desk in time to catch a 10 a.m. plane. She arrived in Houston at 2 p.m., presided over an enormous birthday party, turned in at midnight, turned out again at 3 a.m., and flew back to Washington in time for a 9:30 a.m. Cabinet meeting...
From Vienna came word that a group of dedicated Czech artists were hard at work on a heroic present for the boss's 75th birthday next year: a 90-ft. statue of Joseph Stalin in pink stone...
What are today's young people really like? Are they only a "silent generation," looking for nothing more than security?. Last week, in a special book published by the Yale Daily News in honor of its 75th anniversary (Seventy-Five: A Study of A Generation in Transition; $4), a distinguished group of greying Yalemen and professors, only yesterday members of the "lost generation," offered some answers...
...75th birthday celebration, Poet-Author Carl Sandburg (see BOOKS) told a New York Times writer why it was that, in 1899, he flunked out as a West Point cadet: "It was arithmetic and grammar. Those verbs again. They are terrible things. Nouns are definite, the names of persons or things, but verbs cause all the trouble in the world. All lawsuits are about something coming between two nouns-those verbs...