Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ballyhoo the first birthday of his Oscar-smothered epic movie Around the World in 80 Days, Showman Mike Todd held "a little private party" in Manhattan's ballooned and festooned Madison Square Garden. On the promise of a mighty spectacle plus food, champagne and free gifts (from Japanese dolls to a Cessna airplane), Pitchman Todd conned 18,000 suckers in evening wear into the Garden, conned CBS-TV into paying some $300,000 to carry the shambles to the nation, conned most of the gifts and goodies without cost from publicity-seeking businessmen. When the colossal display of vulgarity...
...director of the powerful Deutsche Bank of Frankfurt and a personal adviser to Germany's Economic Minister Ludwig Erhard (see cover), is generally recognized as one of the most influential spokesmen for the dynamic and prosperous German Federal Republic. In San Francisco, where he celebrated his 56th birthday last week during the I.I.D.C. conference, stocky Hermann Abs also emerged as an incisive spokesman for Western capitalism everywhere...
...mark its birthday in typical Texas-tall style, the store traveled more than 4,000 miles across the Atlantic for foreign help in turning the city into one gigantic promotion spree. Naturally, Neiman's chose France, where the highest fashion comes from−and naturally France was only too glad to help Neiman's, where all good Texas millionaires outfit their wives...
What was going on, as everyone else in Dallas knew, was probably the biggest birthday party ever attempted by any U.S. department store. All Dallas was swept into the act. For Neiman-Marcus' "French Fortnight," the art museum displayed 32 Toulouse-Lautrecs, and the local Lions, Kiwanians and Y.M.C.A. swooped down on visiting French dignitaries for a round of lunches and speeches. France's most sought-after artist, Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 27, 1956), won the city by sporting a giant Stetson; Authors Pierre Daninos (The Notebooks of Major Thompson) and Louise de Vilmorin were lionized at dinner...
Expressing regret at what has happened to his favorite game ("It's down now where bowling used to be"), William Frederick (Willie) Hoppe (rhymes with poppy), former world champion of three-cushion billiards, celebrated his 70th birthday in Miami retirement...