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...East Germany, doddering Premier Wilhelm Pieck was roused early one morning by the reedy wailing of shawms (an obsolete sort of oboe) serenading him with a waltz beneath his bedroom window. The occasion: Puppet Pieck's 79th birthday, later marked by much handshaking with his fellow Communists, plus (to show his love for the proletariat and also for traditional good luck) a sooty clasp from a chimney sweep. Two days later, in Germany's free Western zone, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer also turned 79. After a public reception at the Bonn Chancellery, Widower Adenauer went to his modest home...
...79th year, Konrad Adenauer, Der Alte of West Germany, was not as well as he looked: he had come back from the Brussels Conference plagued with insomnia, able to sleep only under doses of drugs. At Brussels, after the meeting ended, he had seen Mendès-France for an hour. Every word had hurt. EDC was dead. Mendès said. "But my French friends tell me that EDC has a chance in the National Assembly," said Adenauer. "They lied to you " Mendès had replied curtly...
...Standard Oil (later Jersey Standard) moved up from second to first. Most swings were much wider. Sears, Roebuck rose from 42nd to 13th, Western Electric from 51st to 14th and Texas Co. from 87th to sixth, while Pullman Co. dropped from eighth to 81st, Singer Manufacturing from 13th to 79th and Pittsburgh Coal (now Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal) from 15th to 94th. Five companies among the first ten on the 1948 list (General Motors, second; Standard Oil of Indiana, fourth; Socony-Vacuum Oil, fifth; Du Pont, eighth; Ford Motor Co., tenth) did not even appear among the first...
...jungle station in French Equatorial Africa last week, Albert Schweitzer reached his 79th birthday. Early in the morning, outside his single iron-roofed room, the doctors, nurses and native helpers of his hospital at Lambaréné gathered to sing hymns, then came in to offer their good wishes and presents. At the birthday breakfast, the dining-room table was gay with sprays of leek and fennel, a clump of eggplants, a few cabbage leaves-for Doctor Schweitzer does not approve of cutting flowers, or killing anything that is not needed for food. Later in the day, the patients...
...their new play, The Sleeping Princess (Actress Leigh's first stage role since recovering from last spring's nervous breakdown), and were photographed helping famed British Actress Helen Haye* (still going strong playing the Dowager Empress of Russia in Anastasia) blow out the candles at her 79th birthday party...