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Anitsa Sheulic's prayer was read at the opening of the American Red Cross's 1938 convention. Last week it was still timely. As the Red Cross, in the 75th anniversary of its founding, got its annual Roll Call for membership well under way. it still found plenty to do in the world...
...fanelike spring houses, the old horse-drawn traps and flies pulled up along the main street, and above all, the shady racing park with the thoroughbreds circling under the linden back of the clubhouse before the races?all this makes Saratoga a picturesque American scene. Last week, for the 75th year since an Irish politician named John Morrissey founded the track for the spa's bored cure-takers, the annual August trek to Saratoga began...
...composed of about 25 tributes so adoring as to make its title seem an equation. Occasion: the approaching 71st birthday of Manhattan's extraordinary photographer, dealer, apostle of modern art. Last week smoldering old Alfred Stieglitz did his own celebrating in his own way. Two days before his 75th birthday (January 1) he opened an exhibition of clear, sensitive photographs by a young unknown, Eliot Porter. "I sensed a potentiality," said Stieglitz...
...75th birthday last July...
...they could not corner, however, was that proposed at Gravelly Point, because 1) it lies largely beneath the Potomac, and 2) most of the 250 acres of contiguous land is government-controlled. Last year Franklin Roosevelt urgently recommended development of Gravelly Point, last spring he tried to jog the 75th Congress into doing something about it. He had dreamed about a bloody crackup at the present field. In its flurried closing days, however, Congress again failed to provide an airport site, but it did set up the coordinating Civil Aeronautics Authority, leaving it largely under Presidential control...