Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Buckingham Palace would say only that the Princess would celebrate her birthday at a quiet royal family picnic beside Scotland's many-turreted Balmoral Castle. "Ruby" (Robina MacDonald, her personal maid) would tiptoe upstairs and waken the Princess with a cup of tea and the first Happy Birthday. Then there would be prayers, a breakfast of grilled herrings, the usual reading of the Sunday papers with her mother, after which the whole family would gather in the green drawing room for the opening of birthday presents, which were arriving by the dozens in sealed red mailbags...
...beck, which had once resented Buddenbrooks, made him an honorary citizen. In May in Stuttgart he opened the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the death of Poet-Dramatist Friedrich von Schiller. Almost in spite of himself, Mann had become a symbol of German unity. His 80th birthday in June was the occasion for celebrations in the Western world, but none so satisfactory to Mann as those in Germany. A month ago Mann was hospitalized in Zurich with phlebitis. Last week, at the age of 80, he died...
This week, at the age of 100, Michigan State University at East Lansing was still operating at full tide. As part of its year-long birthday celebration, it assembled a giant farm-machinery exposition of some $30 million worth of equipment. There were corn pickers and cotton pickers, weeders, tractors, and combines of every type. By week's end, 250,000 people, including the touring Soviet farmers, are expected to have seen the show. But more impressive than the machinery on display was Michigan State itself...
...Andrew Jackson turned 70 just twelve days after he left the White House. James Buchanan was 51 days short of his 70th birthday when his term expired. If Ike serves a full second term, he will hold the record for presidential longevity: 70 years and 98 days. The oldest President, William Henry Harrison, died of pneumonia at 68, one month after his inauguration. In a study of presidential life spans, Statistician Louis Dublin discovered that Presidents inaugurated before 1850 outlived their life expectation by 2.9 years. Those inaugurated between 1850 and 1900 failed to reach their expectation of life...
...outstanding exception, Herbert Hoover, celebrates his 81st birthday this week.) Says Dublin: "There is no conclusive evidence that the increasing burden of office is taking a greater toll from our Chief Executives...