Word: birthday
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...harmless gathering-until the professor gave the rebel yell. A few dozen United Daughters of the Confederacy, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Children of the Confederacy and Mississippi's Representative John Rankin had assembled in the National Capitol's high-domed Statuary Hall to commemorate the 139th birthday of the first and only president of the Confederate States of America. With routine reverence, the ladies placed a wreath before the eight-foot bronze statue of Jefferson Davis (which stared gloomily north). Then they sat back to listen to a eulogy by sallow, hawk-nosed Dr. Charles C. Tansill, Texas...
...jolly-boating-weather day last week, Britain's hard-pressed aristocracy forgot their troubles and the Labor Government, put on their fanciest duds, and turned out en masse on the broad banks of the Thames at Eton. They were there to celebrate the 500th birthday* of Britain's biggest, most snobbish and most influential public (i.e., private) school...
...Eton's standards a mere babe in the educational woods, Trinity College (Cambridge) last week had a birthday too. King George VI, a Trinity man himself, showed up for the 400th birthday party. Beneath a Holbein portrait of Henry VIII, who founded Trinity, George raised his glass in a toast: ". . . Like many of you undergraduates, I myself came here [in 1919] straight from the fighting services, and I found in the atmosphere of Cambridge ... a steady and mellowing influence." Others under the influence: Newton, Bacon, Coke, Byron, Dryden, Tennyson...
...Broadway theater after another will be going dark. But these shows and standbys are almost sure to span the summer: Oklahoma!, Voice of the Turtle, Harvey, State of the Union, Born Yesterday, Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Mister, Finian's Rainbow, Brigadoon, All My Sons, Happy Birthday, John Loves Mary, Sweethearts, Burlesque-and Life with Father, which next week will beat Tobacco Road's record (3,182 performances)for the longest run in Broadway history...
...65th birthday party, the Colonel asked Bazy Miller to stand up in front of his 170 guests. "Bazy," he rumbled, "tradition has an important part in every organization. And when, 15 or 20 years from now, I am no longer [here], Ruth Elizabeth-Bazy-will be carrying on the tradition of Joseph Medill, an invaluable thing...