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...town, Lübeck, which had once resented Buddenbrooks, made him an honorary citizen. In May in Stuttgart he opened the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the death of Poet-Dramatist Friedrich von Schiller. Almost in spite of himself, Mann had become a symbol of German unity. His 80th birthday in June was the occasion for celebrations in the Western world, but none so satisfactory to Mann as those in Germany. A month ago Mann was hospitalized in Zurich with phlebitis. Last week, at the age of 80, he died...
...Please permit me to join with you in saluting the great sculptor, Carl Milles, on his 80th birthday. As for your comments on my work, they are maliciously stupid, uncalled for, and certainly in poor taste...
...home in Erlenbach, Switzerland, German-born Author Thomas Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature, paused on the eve of his 80th birthday to look back on his first novel, Buddenbrooks, penned 54 years ago. The book was, submitted Mann modestly, "the finest success of my life." He recalled that it had sprung not from literary ambition but from a wish to amuse a few intimates. Said Mann: "Late in life, when a writer realizes that he is producing what is called 'art,' he tends to break off his contacts with society and turn into...
...sweaty, exhausting weeks two evenly matched political gladiators-William Gibbs McAdoo of California and Al Smith of New York-kept the old Madison Square Garden in an uproar, the delegations hopelessly split, the Alabama delegation doggedly casting "24 votes for Underwood" and the convention stalemated. Finally, after the 80th ballot, the deadlocked delegates began to drift away from Smith and McAdoo, and the nomination was left to a field of also-rans...
...Seoul, some 50,000 Koreans jammed into the city's stadium to help doughty President Syngman Rhee celebrate his 80th birthday. On hand were General Maxwell D. Taylor, slated to become U.S. (and U.N.) supreme commander in the Far East this week, and Rhee's old friend, retired General James A. Van Fleet, who hailed Rhee as "the king of fighters . . . Tiger of Korea." Van Fleet told the Koreans that, as Eighth Army commander, he had submitted three battle plans to his superiors in 1953. Any one of the plans, said he, would have ensured victory...