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Josiah Quincy president of Harvard at the 1836 bicentennial and a methodical man by nature, did up a pile of letters from alumni congratulating the University on its 200th birthday, and stuck them away in the attic of University Hall. 100 years later, flocks of photographers and reporters buzzed around the old documents, and there was a great furore over their un-sealing...
Last week the Prophet, Seer & Revelator of the world's 746,384 Mormons observed his 80th birthday. Hale & happy for such tributes as having a whole issue of the Mormon Improvement Era devoted to his life and works, President Heber Jedediah Grant of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints arrived in Chicago on Mormon business bent. The 2,000 Mormons who live in and around Chicago and Wisconsin were also happy. Heretofore shepherded by Mormon missionaries, they became full-fledged members of the Church last Sunday when President Grant organized their territory into Mormonism...
This year not an English magazine but one of William Randolph Hearst's publishing properties furnished the newest entrant n the Christmas annual field. Celebrating its birthday, Manhattan's 90-year-old Town & Country came out with a handsome 204-page issue, largest in its history, billed as America's "First Christmas Annual." Featured was a nostalgic article on old-time college proms by Town & Country's fashion editor, Mrs. Chester La Roche, sister of Cinemactress Rosalind Russell; descriptions by Sportsman Foxhall Keene of his 18 injuries sustained in sport; and a two-page, full-color...
...some heroic retrenching in the way of lopping off branch offices, including those at sea on crack transatlantic liners. But reports that the high-strung, red-haired onetime theatre ticket agent had lost his last shirt were exaggerated. Year ago Broker Meehan presented his son on his 21st birthday with a $130,000 seat on the New York Stock Exchange...
...Manhattan's Radio City, LIFE'S cameramen recorded National Broadcasting Co.'s tenth birthday with candid studio shots of such favorites as Gossip Walter Winchell, Exhibitionist Gypsy Rose Lee (with clothes on), Singer Jessica Dragonette, Funnyman Jack Benny and Maestro Rudy Vallee. In The President's Album, a feature which will be continued weekly, LIFE showed shots which Franklin Roosevelt might well paste up in his scrapbook...