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Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, long in the habit of addressing himself boldly to posterity, celebrated his 86th birthday by spouting pronouncements on everything from the skyscraper ("Ought to go out into the country . . . cast its shadow on its own ground") to the drift toward equalitarianism ("Going to be the death of democracy"). Then, with boyish glee, he burbled: "As for me, if I felt any better I couldn't stand...
Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") MacFadden, steadily ripening with age, asked Utah's Governor J. Bracken Lee if he might celebrate his 86th birthday next August by parachuting into Great Salt Lake. The Utah Aeronautics Commission, to which Lee referred the request, turned thumbs down on MacFadden because he might splash too hard on the "heavy" salt water and thus harm the commission's policy of "aerial safety." Taking the news standing up, MacFadden rumbled: "If I really want to make the jump, I'll go out and make it. How can they stop...
Baseball's spindly, high-collared Connie Mack, celebrating his 86th birthday in Philadelphia, blew out a single candle, sliced a 50-lb. cake, offered a generous birthday wish: "I really want to give Philadelphia fans a championship team before my brains wear...
...Visited General of the Armies John J. Pershing on his 86th birthday at Walter Reed Hospital, took advantage of the occasion to make a little prayer for "eternal peace in this world...
...Again. In Manhattan, Charles Vogel leaped from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building, crashed on a terrace one floor below, crawled over the parapet and plummeted (this time successfully) to the 30th floor...