Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Munroe Rogers '62, Harvard's oldest living graduate, is celebrating his ninety-seventh birthday today...
...pious as his. Smart Cuban lads, placed under the strict guidance of three Roman Catholic priests and educated in English and arts & crafts in the Club's school, these Greensward Sons of "Father Snare" never tire of hailing his greatest greens feat. Last year on his 72nd birthday he drove for the 18th hole, needing a five to make the course in par 72. He made it in six, and every caddy still boasts this a record unbeaten and unbeatable on the Havana course by a man of the years of "Father Snare...
...smiling, vital, masterful, Franklin D. Roosevelt looked steadily last fortnight into a battery of news cameras. Well their operators knew that the results would be indistinguishable from hundreds of similarly posed portraits, but the Press demanded that the appearance of the President of the U. S. on his 54th birthday be recorded. When the photographers seemed satisfied the President relaxed, took off his nose-glasses, dropped his head, rubbed his eyes strained by the dazzling flashes of magnesium bulbs. Alert, Harris & Ewing's cameraman snapped & flashed again. Result was a picture in which President Roosevelt appeared...
...official favor, stay in officialdom's good graces. In releasing this unusual photograph, however, Harris & Ewing did not merely neglect to explain the circumstances of its taking but captioned it as follows: "PENSIVE PRESIDENT PONDERS PROBLEMS. Washington, D. C. President Franklin Roosevelt, posing for photographers on his 54th birthday, is caught in a meditative pose. The photo was made a few minutes after he conferred with Secretary Henry Vallace, Solicitor General Stanley Reed, Attorney General Homer S. Cummings & others on financing the new agricultural program...
...Packard limousine, lunch at a Burlingame restaurant, a brief visit at the main store in San Francisco, dinner in the hotel's dining room. When she was younger she played a shrewd game of poker. Every April her 50-odd children, grandchildren and in-laws assemble for her birthday party, to which the St. Francis contributes a tremendous cake.* This April Matriarch Magnin will have a particularly happy birthday: in its 1935 annual report published last week, Magnin's showed sales of $8,900,000 and profits of $372,000-best year since...