Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staffers of Hearst's Los Angeles Evening Herald & Express wanted to give their boss a birthday present, perhaps a plaid shirt like the gaudy ones he usually wears. Managing Editor John Bayard Taylor Campbell, whose loud & lusty journalism had given the paper (circ. 410,470) its bumptious slogan-"The biggest daily west of Chicago"*-last week was celebrating his 69th birthday and his 50th year in the newspaper business. But when the party-loving reporters got started on the celebration, there was no stopping...
...unsuspecting Jack Campbell walked into the city room in the garish green Moorish castle that houses the Her-Ex, Red Nichols' band struck up Happy Birthday, and the staff presented the boss with a ten-foot bull whip and a wristwatch. As he took them, tears rolled down the grizzled cheeks of hard-boiled Jack Campbell. Before long, more than tears was flowing: friends had sent over a supply of liquor. By the time the gang got through a fancy buffet lunch (courtesy of the Southern Pacific), a woman sword swallower had dropped in from a circus to swallow...
...hospital and District Health Department footed hospital bills (already upward of $3,500); laboratories ran expensive tests free; the Red Cross furnished the necessary plasma. Six strangers, all servicemen, volunteered skin grafts. In December, when Mike was at his lowest, the simultaneous arrival of four enormous birthday cakes from well-wishers gave his morale a badly needed boost...
...inhabitants had seldom had such a busy week. Every time the daily "Virginia Creeper" crept into the station, it spilled out more notables onto the platform. They included some 90 deans and presidents from colleges all over the U.S., come to help celebrate the 200th birthday of Washington and Lee University...
...Southerner named Francis Pendleton Gaines, who arrived 19 years ago from North Carolina's Wake Forest College. President Gaines has done nothing to change the smooth flow of campus life-including the round of fraternity dances leading up to the annual Fancy Dress Ball for Washington's birthday...