Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...change your name." After five months of fighting the Communists with the Ukrainian army during the 1918 revolution, young Boris escaped to the Black Sea, where he boarded a ship that eventually deposited him in New York with 14?of Turkish money in .his pocket. He celebrated his 20th birthday on Ellis Island...
...thoughts were far from Wayne Morse. His bandwagon was rolling pell-mell for Los Angeles, and Kennedy himself was winging toward his family's summer home in Hyannisport, on Cape Cod, for a big family celebration with the multitudinous Clan Kennedy. The occasion: Jack's 43rd birthday, this week. It would be a milestone for a candidate who had beaten down almost every other charge against him except the unavoidable one that to some of the party's elders, he seemed too young to be a winner at the polls, even against a Richard Nixon...
...Yale's better-known alumni, Composer Cole Porter ('13), deserves an honorary degree, despite the fact that his accomplishments are more acoustic than academic. University officials stayed silent on the subject last week, but word leaked out that Porter, on the eve of his 67th birthday next month, will get an honorary degree (best guess: Doctor of Music) at his apartment in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers. Reason for the honor in absentia: Tunesmith Porter, injured badly in a 1937 spill from a horse, had his right leg amputated two years ago, is too frail to under...
Tart-tongued Harry Truman, nearing his 76th birthday at week's end, attended a mock Democratic Convention at Virginia's Washington and Lee University...
...accepts a boy, he considers himself among the ablest high school seniors in the land. This popular idea cuts little ice with Schoolmaster Philip Marson, who prepared generations of Harvard men at famed Boston Latin School, the nation's oldest public school, which last week celebrated its 325th birthday. Marson's contention: Harvard's entrance requirements are at a record low. And the effect on Boston Latin-and all U.S. secondary schools-is disastrous...