Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed unusually relaxed and contented, for here was the segment of land that he had always most liked to come back to. Suddenly from below, from the croquet garden of the hospital, came shouts denoting that here was another day, spent in Colorado, to be remembered. "Happy Birthday, Ike," several convalescent patients were calling up to him. "Happy Birthday, Mr. President...
Before noon, several truckloads of birthday presents, corridors of flowers, eight big sacks of mail, were accumulating at Fitzsimons Army Hospital. Mamie Eisenhower, first in to see her husband on his 65th birthday, gave him a plastic easel equipped with boxes for brushes and paints. Major John Eisenhower's choice was a set of Autobridge, enabling the President to play all four hands in turn. From the President's grandchildren came a book of crossword puzzles, another book called 150 Ways to Play Solitaire, and a phonograph record of a monologue, What It Was, Was Football...
...week from today Connolly will celebrate his 87th birthday. His red hair has turned soft white, and his slim frame is slightly stooped and rather frail. A charley horse restricts him largely to his apartment on Brookline Street, but not his acuteness...
...unlamented ex-dictator observed his 60th birthday 670 miles from Buenos Aires, in Asunción, Paraguay, where he angered the new Argentine government by saying in an interview that he still considered himself Argentina's constitutional President. The Foreign Office cracked back with a strong warning to Paraguay. At week's end, amid recurring reports that he will move to Switzerland, Paraguay promised to make Perón behave...
...musicians. What do the stage hands do? "That," says Borge, "is a question I can't answer." But at the 731st performance, the musicians finally got their chance. As the audience quaffed champagne, Borge had the pianist, two violinists and a trombonist join the celebration by playing Happy Birthday...