Word: 88th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Helsinki, Composer Jean Sibelius celebrated his 88th birthday at a quiet family party at home...
...home in Washington, General Peyton C. March, World War I Army Chief of Staff and the only surviving four-star officer of that war, celebrated a quiet 88th birthday. Said he: "I'm not seeing anyone, and I'm issuing no statement...
...tinseled and highly colored as Andersen's children's stories were simple, direct and unadorned, the picture is Veteran Producer Goldwyn's 88th film in 38 years of moviemaking. It is also his biggest and most expensive (109 shooting days, $4,000,000 budget) production. The picture has mammoth sets-e.g., a Copenhagen square complete with shops, canal, bridge, market and opera house. It has four lavish ballets, among them the 17-minute-long Little Mermaid number, danced by lively, poodle-topped French Ballerina Jeanmaire, Choreographer Roland Petit of the Ballets de Paris, and a chorus...
...Rome, on his 88th birthday, Philosopher George Santayana granted one of his rare interviews to a thoughtful reporter: "I haven't changed my mind basically about my philosophy, but I don't have the sense of simplicity that I used to have . . . Once upon a time I was not reconciled to the world because there were many things about it I did not like. Today, I am still not reconciled to it but for another reason-that I find things are not so simple to explain as I once imagined...
...room these days. Inside that airy corner room, filled with the neat disarray of an old bachelor's belongings, a fragile, black-eyed old man with one of the most far-ranging minds of the 20th Century is recovering from an annoying bout with the flu. In his 88th year, Philosopher George Santayana takes his ailments philosophically. His many would-be visitors feel them more keenly. Formerly host to every sensitive traveler with a metaphysical bee in his Baedeker, Santayana now restricts himself to old friends. Comparative solitude comes as no penance to a man who has long preferred...