Word: 80th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concert, under the direction of Robert Craft, a young disciple of the composer, began with Greeting Prelude, which Stravinsky wrote in 1955 for Pierre Monteux's 80th birthday. It is merely an elaborated fanfare on the wellknown "Happy Birthday To You" tune...
After her retirement, Edna Chase kept a grandmotherly eye on Vogue, often dropped into the office on Lexington Avenue for a quiet lunch and a worried chat about the fading numbers of ladies and gentlemen. Last month, a handsome and regal lady who was about to celebrate her 80th birthday, she slipped south to Florida for a vacation. There last week she died of a heart attack. The news reached Vogue as staffers were handing around the latest postcard from their editor emeritus: "I think of all you busy Vogueites," said the neat hand, "and envy you your full days...
...mistress, and they survived world wars, revolutions, putsches, even the fury of a woman scorned. The woman scorned was Gabriele Munter, Kandinsky's mistress for more than 13 years, who never once looked at the pictures the old master left with her in 1914. Last month, on her 80th birthday, frail, white-haired Gabriele turned the whole collection (valued at $500,000) over to the city of Munich. Last week, unrelenting to the end, she refused to visit the exhibition at the Municipal Gallery, which included some of her own work...
...Soviets (who blamed him for 1938-39 Manchurian border skirmishes), Shigemitsu got a seven-year sentence, served 4½ years, bounced back into politics in 1950, last year negotiated a peace treaty with Russia, a few months later took the bows when Japan was made the null 80th member...
...only relation to either humor or Lampy the mention of Lampoon twice, there is absolutely nothing worth reading in it. Despite diligent seeking over the years, one cannot find a more fruitful way to waste time than spending an afternoon with Robb Sagendorph '22 ("Upon this occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the Lampoon, we must not forget in our fond reminiscing aobut the past, that the present and future are with us, too.") or Edward A. Bacon '20 ("What'll I do, what'll I do,/Now that Gretchen and I are through?") of Lewis P. Mansfield...