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Flying on to Boston with wife Lady Bird Johnson for one of 66 Democratic celebrations honoring Harry Truman's 75th birthday (see PEOPLE), Lyndon landed carefully. Massachusetts, after all, is the nesting ground of a formidable front runner named John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Senator Kennedy met his majority leader at Boston's airport, later introduced him to 800 diners in the cream and gold Somerset Hotel ballroom, cagily saw him out of town again. Before the homefolk Jack took only one good-humored peck at Lyndon : "Some people refer to Senator Johnson as the next President of the United...
...Biggest House Democratic majority in the 20th century: 331 Democrats, 89 Republicans, in the New Deal 75th Congress...
...spectating largely in terms of good companionship, good liquor, and general good cheer, it may seem rather harsh that a Harvard-Yale game should ever be a "grudge match." Yet there is no denying that most of the ingredients will be there when these two teams meet for the 75th time, beginning at 1:30 this afternoon in the Stadium...
...just after the Met concluded its first Manhattan season, and Tenor Campanini's observation has been echoed by many a singer since. The Met has nevertheless attracted more first-rate stars than any other of the world's great opera houses. This week the house celebrates its 75th anniversary with a nostalgic birthday review (lantern slides and ancient recordings assembled by the Metropolitan Opera Guild) of some of its finest achievements. The yellow brick house was built (in 1883) at a cost of $1,732,478.71, principally as a showcase for New York society (the impresario...
Astutely aware that the pleasant sinkholes where a man misspends his youth glow with unearthly allure as the green years recede, the proprietors of Leavitt & Peirce, a Cambridge (Mass.) tobacco hall and onetime pool hall, invited 31 old Harvard graduates to psalm their shop's 75th anniversary. Done up in a handsome volume that is illustrated by snapshots of mustached crewmen, football mastodons of the 1880s, and a sinful tintype of a 19th century Cambridge sybarite puffing a hookah, the sentimental replies set up a blue haze of reminiscence...