Word: 80th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greatest living sculptor, by common consent of the artistic world, is grey-bearded Aristide Maillol, who next week celebrates his 80th birthday in the little fishing village of Banyuls, in southern France. In spite of war, little Banyuls will give this spry oldster his usual birthday party. In Manhattan, his birthday is being celebrated by an exhibition of his sculpture at the Buchholz Gallery...
Birthday. George W. Norris, Senator from Nebraska since 1913: his 80th; in Washington...
...last he had labored for his beloved Poland. Poland's Premier after World War I, he was now the figurehead President of its parliament in exile. On his 80th birthday, last November, he arrived in the U.S. from his villa in Switzerland. Since then, Paderewski spent himself making public appeals for money for starving Poles. Last week, ill of a cold, against his doctor's orders he made one more appearance in New Jersey. As a result he contracted pneumonia and two days later, in his Manhattan hotel, he died. At the suggestion of President Roosevelt, he will...
...entering his 80th year, Walter Damrosch had better to boast of than his operas (he wrote three others, The Scarlet Letter, The Dove of Peace, The Man Without a Country). No man living has one more for good music in the U. S. than he. Born of a famed conductor father (Leopold Damrosch) in Breslau, Germany, Walter Damrosch took his own opera company barnstorming in the U. S., toured with the old New York Symphony to towns which had never heard a concert. Shrewd, levelheaded, anything but temperamental, he could take it in his stride when a snow-heavy trap...
Asked if he claimed his gland transplants rejuvenated people, famed Viennese Endocrinologist Eugen Steinach, vigorously celebrating his 80th birthday in Swiss exile, twinkled, tugged his mighty beard, shouted: "I cannot make a man younger than he is spiritually or physi cally...