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Recovered from a bout with sciatica, which she regarded as a "bore," Queen Mary was up at 8:30 as usual on her 83rd birthday, read many of the thousands of letters and telegrams that poured into Marlborough House, London. At noon she rode in her green Daimler to Buckingham Palace for the customary birthday luncheon. All in all, it was a busy week. A few days before her birthday, she showed up at the Chelsea Flower Show at Royal Hospital, was helped across a muddy stream (see cut). The day after her busy birthday, she took in the Derby...
Harvard is opening its 83rd baseball season today...
...once suffered a whipping by father Louis Streit, farm-machinery salesman and country fiddler, for arguing so long and loudly in bed that he kept the rest of the Streit brood (two brothers, two sisters) awake half the night. The weapon father Streit used was a history of the 83rd Regiment in the Civil War, which Clarence had been reading...
...Swiss chalet at New Paltz, N.Y., Oscar (Tschirky) of the Waldorf, in semi-retirement since 1943, observed his 83rd birthday at a quiet family dinner...
...Send me cigars-they are my food," Finnish Composer Jean Sibelius had said. This week, U.S. admirers had sent him 83 boxes of cigars (plus two humidors) for his 83rd birthday. Among the donors: Tallulah Bankhead, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Carmen Miranda, Thomas J. Watson, Sergei Koussevitzky, Marian Anderson, Lawrence Tibbett. Said a spokesman for the National Arts Foundation, which is handling the collection: "We intend to keep Sibelius in cigars for life...