Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Celebrating his 60th birthday, Composer Copland last week mounted the podium at Carnegie Hall to lead the New York Philharmonic in two compositions-Symphonic Ode (1929) and El Salón México (1936)- that illustrated the range of his own creative career...
Shortly afterwards, the Harvard club retaliated by singing Happy Birthday to the Yale club on the occasion of its hundredth anniversary. The audience had a good time, and the singers seemed to enjoy it too. It's too bad the latter didn't have more original arrangements of the other songs to get enthusiastic over...
Three weeks short of his 70th birthday, President de Gaulle went into four-day seclusion at his country retreat in the Champagne region of northeastern France. He tramped in his damp wooded fields ("I have walked them 15,000 times"), sat in the tower study he has added to the old stone farmhouse, working on his first radio-TV speech in five months...
...teach kindergarten. A highlight of their visit, conveniently timed with the 50th anniversary of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, will be a Tribute-to-Sweden Ball at Manhattan's Hotel Plaza-a smorgasbord benefit to raise funds for a new youth cultural center in Jerusalem. On his 74th birthday Nationalist China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek chose to underscore one of the hottest issues in the U.S. election by journeying to the Nationalist-held island of Quemoy within easy range of the Red Chinese coast artillery. Bedded in Baltimore in a cast, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, 61, president of Johns Hopkins...
...quiet satisfaction from the fact that Ward's new free-spending management, faced with six-month earnings of $5,000,000 v. $10 million the first half of 1959, had to halve Ward's quarterly dividend. Last week, just a few days be- fore his 87th birthday, Sewell Avery died of a cerebral hemorrhage...