Word: 83rd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the 83rd Congress gets through organizing next January, some old, familiar faces will appear at the heads of the tables. Many of the key officers and committee chairmen will be returning to posts they held in the 80th Congress...
Health Culturist Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, who celebrated his 83rd birthday last summer by parachuting into the Hudson River, was still muscle-bent on proving his favorite adage: ''This business of growing old is all nonsense." His plans for celebrating his 84th birthday next month: a trip to England and a parachute leap into the Thames...
...approached his 83rd birthday this year, Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, who loves carrots and publicity, was overcome by a recurring conviction: he was still a boy because he had quaffed quantities of buttermilk and vegetable juice all his life. To prove his youth, Macfadden decided to parachute out of an airplane over Niagara Falls. When horrified U.S. and Canadian officials forbade the stunt, Macfadden let it be known that he would jump out over New York's George Washington Bridge. The cops threatened to arrest...
Muscleman Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, who made a parachute jump on his 81st birthday, changed his mind about parachuting into the Niagara River to celebrate his 83rd, decided instead to mark the event at home in Dansville, N.Y. by simply eating a whole wheat cake and announcing a prize of $1,000 for the best three-act play about his life...
Major General Claude B. Ferenbaugh, 51, commander of 7th Division: West Point, 1918; pre-World War II service in Hawaii and Philippines; operations officer of II Corps in Africa, 1943; assistant commander, 83rd Division, in Europe; chief of staff, Operation Sandstone (atomic tests), 1947-48; commander, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii...