Word: birthday
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Celebrating the ninth anniversary of her coronation and her "official" birthday (the real one was April 21, when she turned 36), Queen Elizabeth issued her traditional birthday honors lists and slyly mixed into it a heady summer highball. Named a Commander of the British Empire was A.R.D. Gilbey, maker of Gilbey's gin; named a member of the Order of the British Empire was Commander Walter Edward Whitehead, bearded pitchman for Schweppes quinine water. Among 2,000 other honors: a knighthood for Guardian Cartoonist David Low-who now becomes Sir David-creator of that enduring symbol of bumbling bureaucracy...
During a lunch break on the Hollywood set of Critics' Choice, Leading Man Bob Hope headed into a banquet room and wound up with a surprise party. For his 59th birthday, co-workers gave him a $40 stuffed panda, a cake ablaze with candles, and a good-humored ribbing written by his own gagmen and delivered by Co-Star Lucille Ball. "I don't know just how old Bob is," said the sprightly redhead, "but he's closer to medicare than most Republicans." Added Lucy, recalling Hope's salad days: "He was handsome then-big chest...
...Dior. Actually, the advent of his birthday left the President in rather good shape for retiring-if he should want...
...Churchill and Prime Minister Macmillan at a table in London's imposing Warwick House-Roy Thomson of the Sunday Times, Cecil Harmsworth King of the Daily Mirror, Lord Rothermere of the Daily Mail, and the guest of honor, crusty, combative Lord Beaverbrook of the Daily Express, whose 83rd birthday prompted the shindig. "I felt that this was an occasion on which Fleet Street could forget its animosities," said Rothermere, who arranged the affair. "But I assure you, they'll be resumed tomorrow." Said the Beaver: "I have destroyed completely the foolish maxim that the good die young." "Trouble...
...York-"ba-hoooooo." Then Spain and 10,000 oles as the matador enters the corrida. A veronica ("shwuss") and the bull flies past ("bohr-uhm, bohr-uhm"). Another 10,000 oles. With only a word here and there, Navarro moves on to England for the Queen's birthday and produces an affair of state: troops marching, planes swooping close by them (the sound of both at once), rifle fire, drums, bagpipes, bugles, hoofbeats, helicopters...