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...flower-decked hotel bedroom in Nice, Colette, aging French novelist and short story writer (Gigi, La Maison de Claudine), sipped champagne, read some Maupassant and made a 79th birthday decision: "It isn't particularly funny to learn all at once upon waking up that one is entering one's 80s. But tomorrow I will forget and give myself another age, 58 for instance, because I have remained so much a woman. At 58 one still pleases ... at 58 one has so much hope...
...79th Division Maneuvers (Sat. 4 p.m., NBC). From Camp Pickett...
...home in Washington's Wardman Park Hotel, former Secretary of State Cordell Hull planned to celebrate a quiet 79th birthday, the same as all other days, he said, "watching events from the sidelines...
...Fulbright awards are financed by sale of United States surplus property abroad, under provisions of Public Law 534, 79th Congress...
...John Marin's letters a constant delight to his friends. Edited and put between covers, a selection of the letters and of his rather less coherent essays was on sale in U.S. bookstores last week (The Selected Writings of John Marin; Pellegrini & Cudahy; $7.50). Its publication marked the 79th birthday of one of the U.S.'s foremost artists, who has again & again been called "great...