Word: birthday
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Choice of Punches. On Lincoln's Birthday, traditionally an occasion for Republican speechmaking, President Kennedy held the center of the stage with an 800-guest White House reception and buffet dinner to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. "Hypocritical," cried the upstaged Republican National Committee. Among the President's guests: Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the N.A.A.C.P., John Johnson, publisher of Ebony, and, of course, the most prominent Negro members of the Administration-Robert C. Weaver, head of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, and Carl Rowan, Ambassador-designate to Finland. Menu: shrimp Creole, curried chicken...
...Republican Party, it seemed on Lincoln's Birthday, is in a state of philosophical flux, searching for updated ideas and remodeled programs. The politics of 1964 may largely depend upon the results of that search...
Bedtime for Israel's most distinguished philosopher, Martin Buber, is 10 o'clock. But his 85th birthday was an exception. At the stroke of 11, some 400 students from the Hebrew University, where he taught before his retirement, paraded up Jerusalem's Lovers of Zion Street to the door of Buber's villa, carrying torches and singing in Hebrew "For Martin's a jolly good fellow." On the veranda, a pretty coed garlanded the white-whiskered Hasidic sage with flowers and soundly bussed his cheek. "What?" asked Buber with a merry twinkle. "Is there only...
...CRIMSON, in its once-a-term campaign to keep American Ideals alive, will observe the Birthday of the Founder of our Republic, or Democracy if you must, by not publishing tomorrow, and with suitable other festivities. Rejoice, go without news...
...with U.S. Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics on leave, while in India. Freidel participated in ceremonies honoring Franklin D. Roosevelt in New Delhi on Jan. 29, when the ambassador's new residence was designated "the Roosevelt House" on the occasion of FDR's birthday...