Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem then was to find a replacement. Two days before, Mundt had telephoned Illinois' Republican Senator Everett Dirksen, a committee member, in Huntsville, Tenn., asked him to rush back to Washington for the Sears showdown. Dirksen told Mundt that an important celebration prevented his immediate return: the first birthday of his only grandson, Darek Dirksen Baker...
Nobody is quite sure what Patriots' Day commemorates. It has been rumored to be an observance of the first running of the Boston Marathon, the founding of Harvard College and the birthday of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy...
...which for a week had been kept a strict secret even from his own musicians: Arturo Toscanini, the greatest performing musician alive today, had retired. For almost a fortnight, his letter of resignation to RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff had rested, unsigned, on his desk. Abruptly, on his 87th birthday, Toscanini made his decision, ran upstairs and signed it. Excerpt: "And now the sad time has come when I must reluctantly lay aside my baton and say goodbye to my orchestra ... I shall carry with me rich memories of these years of music making...
Four-time Pulitzer Prizewinning Poet Robert Frost, to his surprise, turned 80. Explained he: "I got my sister's birthday mixed up with my own and just recently discovered through old letters that I was born in 1874, not 1875." A reporter asked him how it felt to learn that he was a year older than he had long believed. Said Frost: "I'd begun to suspect it for some time...
Arturo Toscanini had a birthday last week, and as usual refused to take the slightest formal notice of the event. On his 87th birthday, when he was scheduled to rehearse his NBC orchestra, he stayed home and let a visitor take his place-and newspapers suggested that it was, among other things, the Maestro's way of avoiding congratulations from his musicians...