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Last week Cooper Union celebrated its 90th birthday with a big convocation in its historic Great Hall.* Architect Frank Lloyd Wright and RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff were on hand to receive Peter Cooper Medals for their respective services to art and science...
...ballroom guests were not alone in celebrating John Dewey's 90th birthday. Messages had poured in from all over the world-from President Harry Truman and Prime Minister Clement Attlee, from Pandit Nehru, Historian Arnold Toynbee, Harvard's President James B. Conant and from a hundred U.S. colleges and universities. A dozen foreign nations had planned celebrations. Friends were raising $90,000 for an educational Dewey Birthday Fund. Gruffed John Dewey when a reporter asked him what he thought of it all: "I keep thinking it's a damned funny thing to celebrate...
...Wends has scarcely felt their defection. For 41 years the same comfortable King* has sat on Sweden's throne, the same scholarly Crown Prince stood patiently by. Last week, as half a million Swedes lined the streets of Stockholm to cheer King Gustaf V's 90th birthday, it seemed as if this state of affairs might go on indefinitely. Even the horses that pulled the royal coach had an air of permanence-17-year-old Ajax and Meteor had performed the same job on the King's 80th birthday...
...That's not the way TIME heard it-from Lieut. Colonel Irvine Russell, then of the 90th Infantry Division, which took over the town of Merkers, where the salt mine was located. His version...
Million-Dollar Blossom. Manhattan's Macy's, pushing a 90th anniversary sale, had a $1,000,000 day for the first time in any spring season (its daily sales have topped a million 37 other times, during the Christmas rush). But retail trade generally, reported Dun & Bradstreet, suffered a post-Easter drop of 3% to 7% from the same period last year...