Word: birthday
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...King's whim formed the country's reward: he gave to favored friends a forest, a few hundred serfs and an earldom. The very titles of prized orders (e.g., Knights of the Garter) reflected the cozy household nature of it all. Last week Queen Elizabeth published her Birthday Honors List, rewarding 2,000 British and Commonwealth subjects, but the choice was largely the concern of her elected ministers, who operate on the principle that what is good for the nation is good for the Queen's list. Only in the arts is the carefree caprice...
...home in Erlenbach, Switzerland, German-born Author Thomas Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature, paused on the eve of his 80th birthday to look back on his first novel, Buddenbrooks, penned 54 years ago. The book was, submitted Mann modestly, "the finest success of my life." He recalled that it had sprung not from literary ambition but from a wish to amuse a few intimates. Said Mann: "Late in life, when a writer realizes that he is producing what is called 'art,' he tends to break off his contacts with society and turn into...
...back door. We Shall March Again reaches a telling climax as the spokes fall out of the German war machine. Fuzzy-cheeked youngsters try to hold positions that crack divisions could not defend, commanders cannot reach the Führer because he is dillydallying at his own birthday party. But these vivid vignettes cannot quite redeem the novel's major flaw-that its men whine louder than its bullets...
Gathering at their home in Corbeil, Ont., Student Nurses Cecile and Yvonne, Piano Student Annette and Homebody Marie Dionne, survivors of the famed quintuplets (Emilie died during an epileptic seizure last August), celebrated their 21st birthday at a quiet family party. Without ceremony, they signed papers to carve up their trust fund of nearly $1 million. The shares: some $197,000 apiece, plus amounts of about $14,000 (from Emilie's portion) to each of them and to the other ten members of the family...
Exactly one year after he won control of the New York Central Railroad, pugnacious Robert R. Young and his stockholders set out to celebrate his first birthday as boss. For the 800 stockholders who gathered in Albany for the annual meeting last week, the party turned out to be a rough and rowdy celebration...