Word: 78th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid the bustle of his usual routine last week, Pope Pius XI sang a low mass of thanksgiving in celebration of his 78th birthday. In this the 56th year of his priesthood, the 16th of his episcopate and the 13th of his pontificate, the Pope told his official family: ''We do not know why people worry about our health. We have just passed through a very laborious Holy Year, but we feel just as well today as when we began it. We expect to live to celebrate not alone our own jubilee after 25 years reign, but also...
...thought of what "Buck" Duke had left up North. At Somerville,N. J. was Mr. Duke's 5,000-acre estate with its statues, its fountains, its 35 miles of paved road. At Newport was Mr. Duke's summer place. In Manhattan, at No. i East 78th St., was the classic marble palace "Buck" Duke built for his wife 25 years ago, with its tapestry-hung salons, winding marble staircases, rose-&-gold elevator. And in that house was "Buck" Duke's only child, the richest girl in the world...
Last week Associate Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis, whom President Wilson also placed upon the bench in 1916, unceremoniously celebrated his 78th birthday. Though the oldest member of the court, his health is still good, his step quick, his mind vital. As the best anti-corporation lawyer of Wilson's day, Brandeis was for Labor, for Reform, for Social Improvement in a passionate way. He still is. Yet he is unconvinced of the divine nature of any man and accepts President Roosevelt's New Deal with certain reservations which his friends are sure will make startling news this winter...
...bodyguard. Senator Long yelled back: "Come down here and I'll Long Island you. I won't have five or six men jump on you the way they did on me and then run off. I'll man-to-man it with you." On her 78th birthday, Elizabeth Mead Johnson, mother of NRA's General Hugh Samuel Johnson, told Okmulgee, Okla. reporters: "I have been that boy's mother for 51 years, and I thought he was the greatest thing I ever saw when I first laid eyes on him. He has always been great...
...stories that Ambassador Andrew William Mellon had shipped a hoard of gold to Britain and was afraid to go home became so loud that Pennsylvania's Senator Reed felt obliged to deny them in open Senate. Last week Mr. Mellon debarked from the Leviathan in Manhattan on his 78th birthday, quietly parried newshawks' questions. He said he had heard his successor, spruce young Judge Robert Worth Bingham of Kentucky, "favorably commented on" in London. Asked whether "beer will help much." he said, "What do you mean, help the thirsty?" Asked if he would rest now, he said: "Nobody...