Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Celebrating his 106th birthday in Manhattan, the Rev. Dr. Arthur J. Brown, grand old man of Presbyterian missions, founder of the Protestant ecumenical movement, greeted his admirers with a twinkle and recalled a previous birthday at a school in West Brookfield, Mass. "One hundred years ago today," he said, "I faced an audience for the first time. Then, as now, I said...
...central figure, Woody Hartman, gives Sydney Chaplin little to work with. On his 40th birthday Woody has misgivings about the value of his life and viability of his marriage. But how does he express the fact that he hates going through the middle-class motions? By second thoughts about his Great Neck home. The author uses this technique-characterization by telling reference--to the point of inanity...
...first time in his four-year reign that Pope John XXIII was seriously ill. The Vatican, canceling all papal audiences a few days after the Pontiff's 81st birthday, at first reported that the Pope had a case of influenza. But the real trouble, it said later, was a gastric illness that had provoked a "rather intense anemia." There was speculation, although no confirmation, that he had an ulcer. Put to bed and on a strict diet, he seemed cheerier after a few days...
...London, Sir Winston Churchill breakfasted on a soft-boiled egg and, on his 88th birthday, followed it with a glass of champagne...
Unfortunately for the Observer, there do not seem to be many such readers around. Approaching its first birthday, U.S. journalism's first serious claimant to the title of national newspaper is losing ground. From a starting 422,000, weekly circulation is down to 200,000. Newsstand sales approach the vanishing point...