Word: birthday
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...same courageous thrust as in the wartime posters, but the sturdy, bulldog head was sunk deep into slumped shoulders, and the pale blue eyes were watery and weary when Sir Winston Churchill tottered slowly into the House of Commons as Big Ben struck 3 on his 87th birthday. "Hear, hear, hear," rolled out the traditional Commons welcome, until it beat like a native drum. Then came a few most unparliamentary hurrahs (with nary a reprimand from the bewigged Speaker), and the "right honorable member for Woodford" slumped into his lifetime front-bench seat. A government spokesman saluted the occasion...
From his infancy, young Dexter Grabgrind '62 cultivated the art of evading solicitors. At the age of three, he escaped a Girl Scout selling cookies by showing her a box that his uncle had given him the previous year. By his eleventh birthday, he had contributed 54 buttons to the collection plate in the church of his choice...
Some Jelly Sandwiches. For one thing, there was a joint birthday party for Caroline Kennedy, just turning four, and John Jr., 1. On hand were 15 friends and cousins-along with a woolly black monkey named Susie. Hostess Jacqueline Kennedy had hoped to borrow a Baltimore Zoo chimpanzee with a knack for drawing pictures, but she learned that the artist-animal was undependable around children. So Susie was invited instead. She shook hands with the children and mimicked them. After the monkey came other party treats, such as tricycling in the marbled White House corridors and watching animated cartoons...
Marking his 93rd birthday, Texas' John Nance Garner bit off the end of the first cigar he had smoked since his 90th, and reported himself right pleased that his 47 years of private life finally outnumbered the 46 he had spent serving the public in jobs ranging from Uvalde County judge to Speaker of the House to Vice President. ("I am the only man," he once noted, "who ever walked from the most important office to one that doesn't amount to a hill of beans.") But this year the still spiny "Cactus Jack" gaveled down the traditional...
...Years at Yale. On the assumption that someone, somewhere, believed the story, Hallyday called a press conference shortly after his 18th birthday last spring and told the truth. He was born in Paris of a French mother and a Belgian father, and his name is Jean-Philippe Smet. After his parents separated, he was reared from age six by his aunt, wife of an American vaudeville hoofer named Lee Hallyday. With his foster parents, he traveled the world from Cairo to Mexico City, eventually joining their song and dance...