Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night newsboy buying his papers from a delivery man, idlers mooning into store windows. One series showed pauper children, black & white, eating at a soup-kitchen board; another showed primped little scions of the rich at Publisher Conde Nast's party for his daughter Leslie's third birthday...
Until this letter had well sunk in, Chancellor Hitler lay low last week, then sent up an amazing trial balloon. Nov. 10 will be the 450th birthday of Martin Luther. Flatly acting ReichsbischoF Müller stated that the Chancellor would then renounce Catholicism, become a Protestant and join "The National Evangelical Church." Since Reichsbischof Müller is Herr Hitler's close friend this announcement thunderstruck the Fatherland. Were even Catholics going to be dragooned into a National Church, a Nazi Church? For half a day Chancellor Hitler let the sensation sizzle. Suddenly he decided that Catholics must...
...morning before (TIME, June 26). Twenty-five crossed the Alps at Spluga Pass, roared over Zurich and Basle, and trailed shadows on the soil of Strasbourg, Mannheim, Cologne. The 25 wheeled over Amsterdam to be saluted in the air by a convoy of 60 Dutch seaplanes celebrating the 20th birthday of the Royal Dutch Air Force with a mass formation of their own. Down came the first black triad, led by the plane labelled I-BALB (Balbo's), to a neat landing in the Zuider Zee. Loud cheers from the throngs on the dikes. Down came the next...
...took The Literary Digest 30 years to roll up a circulation of 2,000,000 (see below). At the age of six months Ballyhoo reached its astounding peak, 1,900.000. Last week Ballyhoo celebrated its second birthday. Circulation: "about 300,000." Best evidence that the magazine still makes money is the fact that foxy Publisher George T. Delacorte Jr. continues to publish it. His stable shelters no boarders. Ballyhoo continues the stunt-which it has worn threadbare-of poking fun at advertisers, but in desultory fashion. Now it is largely a funny-picture book, and, if anything, less salacious than...
Born. To Glenna Collett Vare, five-lime national women's golf champion, and Edwin H. Vare Jr., nephew of Pennsylvania's Boss William Scott Vare; a daughter, Glenna; weight: 7 Ib.; on Mrs. Vare's 30th birthday: in Philadelphia...