Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late Dag Hammarskjold, secretary-general of the U.N., said at Mrs. Roosevelt's 70th birthday party in 1954: "Millions of people all over the world think of (her) as their friend...
...Roosevelt's 78th birthday was celebrated quietly in the hospital Oct. 11, with only members of the family present. She has four sons and one daughter...
...England premiere, Stravinsky's Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa received a bludgeoning the Bach Society had not intended to give it; someone in the orchestra arrived after the concert had begun. Naturally the counterpoint had strange empty spots. Monumentum, composed in 1960 on Gesualdo's four-hundredth birthday, is essentially an alteration for chamber music of three of Gesualdo's madrigals. Even if one makes allowances for what was missing on Friday, Stravinsky's version sounded sadly disjointed in comparison with the original vocal settings if the madrigals. Stravinsky achieves coloring effects-alternating strings and horns in block chords...
Roscoe Pound, dean emeritus of the Harvard Law School, celebrated his 92nd birthday Saturday at a party in his honor at the Simpson House in Newton...
Five thousand cheering Republicans jammed Commonwealth Armory last night to help General Dwight D. Eisenhower celebrate his seventhy - second birthday and hear him deliver a bitter attack on the foreign policy of the Kennedy Administration...