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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Races," wrote Queen Victoria to her gadabout son Edward, "have become so bad of late, and the connection with them has ruined so many young men." In her reign the royal stables were no great shakes, but Victoria did keep her house in order. Last week over her birthday (May 24) the good Queen would have been horrified to see her respectable great-grandson George filling his pockets with race-track winnings (see above) while his household went...
Canada's best known junior misses, the Dionne quintuplets, turn twelve this week. Yvonne, Marie, Emilie, Annette, Cécile dolled up to share Papa Oliva Dionne's knee (see cut) and a single big birthday cake. But no presents. Other years there had been five cakes and gifts of ponies, bicycles, etc. This year the Quints decided that the money should go to help feed children in Europe...
...Benedictine monks around the hollow square of tables ate their simple noon meal in silence. But then, since it was a special occasion, they broke out the good Priory port, to toast the eldest of their number. It was the Rev. Dom John Hugh Diman's 83rd birthday. It was also a memorable fortnight for him. Last week his old school, St. George's (Episcopal), one of the top U.S. prep schools, celebrated its 50th year. This week another of his old schools, Portsmouth Priory (Catholic), marked its 20th. He founded both, and was their first headmaster...
...prophetic mood Episcopal Bishop William T. Manning last week made his farewell address to the annual convention of his New York diocese. He had just reached 1) his 80th birthday, 2) his 25th anniversary as bishop-a post from which he will retire in December (TIME, April 8). Manning, a leader of the Anglo-Catholic party in his Church, stirringly reasserted his own and long-held conviction that the Episcopal Church can "serve as a 'bridge church' and as a reconciling influence between Catholicism and Protestantism...
Herson likes best his interview with Sol Bloom on the Representative's 76th birthday...