Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very good chance of regaining a "nearly 100% perfect arm." Bouquets In London, Queen Mary - in powder blue as usual - got fan mail, gun salutes, the cheers of crowds, a little cake with icing, and a toast from her family and friends at lunch, on her 81st birthday...
...Manhattan, Master Tapster Bill Robinson got a 70th-birthday cake (see cut), a Broadway blowout, a cruise party up the Hudson, a watch, and plaster casts of his feet, which he examined and pronounced authentic ("Got the bunions and all"). In Tokyo, General Douglas MacArthur gave the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post an autographed picture of himself...
...Dionne Quintuplets, 14 this week, gathered round their usual five-story birthday cake, but didn't look exactly hungry...
...onetime Vassar actress, Miss Madeira still appears in student and faculty plays (some recent roles: the sultan in Arabian Nights, Two-Gun Dick in a Wild West show). Last week the girls put on a birthday performance of Miss Madeira's favorite scenes from Shakespeare and watched her cut an enormous cake. Then the headmistress, in a new flowered print dress, made a speech in praise of longevity ("Growing old is a delightful experience") and teaching ("A journey in the country of the mind"). Was Miss Madeira planning to quit? Said she: "I'm going to retire when...
...propitious neither to my work nor to my health," Wilhelmina said she would give up the throne in favor of Princess Juliana. (At a ten-minute ceremony in the Knights' Hall at The Hague, Juliana was sworn in as regent.) On Aug. 30-the eve of her 68th birthday-Wilhelmina would resume the throne for a week of jubilee. Sept. 6 would be the 50th anniversary of her reign. On that day (or shortly thereafter) Juliana would become Queen of The Netherlands...