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Sirs: In common doubtless with many other of his former students I appreciated your record of Dr. Welch's 80th birthday party (TIME, April 14), but your otherwise excellent account was marred by one misleading statement, that which classed his European prototypes as follows: "Paul Ehrlich (discoverer of salvarsan); Koch (discoverer of the bacilli of anthrax, tuberculosis, cholera): Pasteur (vaccines)." If I may be forgiven a seeming irreverence, this is much as though you had classified the founders of a great religion somewhat as follows...
...stage of Memorial Continental Hall in Washington. He was fidgeting nervously, smiling sheepishly under a barrage of praise which was going out to scores of notables who sat peering at him from the audience, and to radio listeners all over the world. It was Dr. Welch's 80th birthday party. To uphold the ancient custom of birthday present-giving the committee in charge of the celebration was hard put. No degrees could they give Dr. Welch; he had 18. Medals would not answer; he had plenty of them. On other occasions he had been given the presidencies of most...
April 8-International ceremonies honoring 80th birthday of Johns Hopkins' Dr. William Henry Welch. Chief U. S. celebration; at Memorial Continental Hall, Washington...
News of Judge Sanford's death reached the Capitol just as the other judges of the Supreme Court were congratulating Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes on his 80th birthday, as Senators were delivering eulogies to "the grand old man of the judiciary...
Rushed through the Czechoslovak Parliament was a thumping 80th birthday gift, a present to the President of $600,000 cash...