Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rodecker was a successful and likable Detroit businessman. Secretary-treasurer of a financial firm, he lived in a fashionable neighborhood, had a son, a daughter and four grandchildren, interested himself in philanthropy (Detroit's Hundred Club, which helps the families of deceased policemen and firemen). As his 60th birthday came upon him last week, Rodecker decided that it was time to pamper himself a little, so he and his wife went off on a three-day holiday to celebrate. Off to New York City they went, to enjoy the bright magic of the town-the many-splendored hotels...
...afternoon of his birthday, Rodecker treated his wife to lunch at one of Manhattan's best restaurants, Le Pavilion (Saumon Fumé, $3; Germiny aux Paillettes, $3; Pigeonneau aux Olives. $6; coffee, 70?. Afterward, they strolled the few steps up 57th Street toward the corner of Park Avenue, underneath the windows of the Ritz Tower, where lives, among others,TV Star (What's My Line?) Arlene Francis* with her husband, Producer Martin Gabel, and her 13-year-old son. As the Rodeckers walked by, a maid in the Gabel's eighth-floor apartment began removing a screen...
...mere child at the time, and I have been in love with him ever since. He is my world. He has made me more mature and I keep him young. I never consciously think of Charlie's age for 364 days of the year. Only his birthday is the annual shock to me-when the whole world seems to pour into our home with wishes, cables and presents." Motherhood is Oona's favorite occupation: "I am delighted every time I have another baby. The more the merrier is our family slogan. Charlie is just crazy about the kids...
...Last week Sotheby's put up for sale a 168-piece silver service that had never been shown outside Berkeley Castle. It is the work of the great French Silversmith Jacques Roettiers and part of it was probably ordered by the third Earl of Berkeley for the 21st birthday of his son in 1737. Rare and beautiful as it surely is, it fetched a price that astonished even astonishment-proof Sotheby's. After only 2½ minutes of bidding, the gavel went down on the figure offered by Frank Partridge & Sons of London and New York...
...Buenos Aires, his first stop, where he was ostensibly an honored guest at Argentina's 150th birthday celebration. Dorticós slipped away to confer secretly with chiefs of the anti-government Peronista Metal Workers Union...