Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provisional capital, but the arsenal across the river at Hanyang. Although the arsenal was undamaged, a crowded circular area facing the Yangtze was destroyed at the cost of hundreds of lives. To Japan's aerial warriors the raid was in celebration of sacred Emperor Hirohito's 37th birthday...
...subsidized theatre means bad plays. But a private committee headed by George Bernard Shaw has at last raised $750,000 and spent half of it buying a site in London's South Kensington, far from the theatre district. Last week, on the eve of Shakespeare's birthday (April 23), before a crowd of nearly 1,000, including U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Mr. Shaw formally accepted the deeds to the site, remarked: "I suppose you have had me here today as the next best thing to Shakespeare. It is said that people do not want a National...
...Jackie. He heard it first nearly three years ago when, a few months after his father was killed in an automobile accident, he turned 21. Up to that day in October 1935, says Jackie, he managed to get along on a $6.25 weekly allowance. Day before his 21st birthday he got $1,000, heard his mother say next day, about the rest: "You haven't got a cent. There never has been one cent belonging to you. It's all mine." Year later Arthur Bernstein married Lillian Coogan. One day the Kid hauled off, knocked Arthur rump over...
...Oldster Foley was unquestionably the hero of the day. The oldest marathoner in the world, he is probably the most durable as well. A onetime diamond setter, Peter Foley has been running in almost every Boston Marathon since the turn of the century. When he reached his 55th birthday, the Boston Athletic Association refused to accept his entry blank. Undaunted, Peter Foley began to run his own individual marathon. For years he used to start just one minute after the official field, but gave up that practice when he found that his friends couldn't find him among...
...London suburb last week, on the eve of his 70th birthday, Scotsman Sandy Herd, onetime (1902) British Open golf champion, became the hero of the $5,000 Rickmansworth Open, when he scored a 67, six under par, in the second round. His 30 for the first nine holes set a new record for major British tournaments, but Oldster Herd had to be content with 19th place (288) at the end of the tournament...