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That crusade began for Charles Rhyne last summer when he was installed in the A.B.A.'s presidency at the 80th anniversary convention in London. On Runnymede's historic meadow, Rhyne dedicated the A.B.A.'s monument in commemoration of the sealing of Magna Carta. In Westminster Hall, Chief Justice Earl Warren and then Attorney General Herbert Brownell of the U.S., Lord Kilmuir, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and the lawyers of two continents joined in a session that was, in itself, one of the great landmarks in the history of law (TIME...
...late Queen Mary's 80th birthday in 1947, the BBC commissioned Mystery Writer Agatha Christie, by royal request, to do a radio drama called Three Blind Mice. Author Christie later expanded it into a stage play, The Mousetrap, thought it might run a couple of months at best. The day after The Mousetrap gave its 2,239th performance at London's Ambassadors' Theater, thus passing the musical Chu Chin Chow as the longest-running play in British stage history.* Producer Peter Saunders gave a hotel-jamming party for a few (1,000) friends, who cheered as Author...
...Wernher's older brother, Sigismund, is counselor at the German embassy in London; his younger brother, Magnus, is program-control manager of the Chrysler Corp.'s new missile division in Detroit. Last week in a comfortable Oberaudorf apartment, Baron Magnus von Braun, tanned and vigorous, celebrated his 80th birthday, marked by a four-page letter from Wernher and a gift of twelve bottles of Rhine wine. Said he, fingering his white walrus mustache in wonderment-now mixed with pride-at his son's strange fascination with space: "I don't know where his talent comes from...
...feminine face needs leafage," Colette used to say, and regardless of fashion, she wore her hair pulled down over her forehead. Hundreds of photographers presented her to the world masked by her "leafage"-until one day, on her 80th birthday, Vogue's Irving Penn took "a staggering photograph" that left France's greatest authoress "exposed before posterity" (see cut). As if really seeing her for the first time, Colette's husband, Maurice Goudeket, marveled at what lay beneath the leafage-"a huge, domed forehead, like Beethoven's . . . bare, vast, significant, the forehead of a genius...
...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...