Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They were all there-Cab Calloway, Earl ("Fatha") Hines, Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, J. J. Johnson, Gerry Mulligan and scores of others. It was not a Bourbon Street reunion of the jazz giants, nor were they stompin' at the Savoy. The man tinkling out Happy Birthday on the piano-with authority-was none other than a fellow named Dick Nixon, President of the U.S. "I've never seen the place like this," exclaimed a venerable White House butler as he distributed glasses of champagne from a silver tray. "It sure has lots of soul tonight...
Today is Ricky Nelson's 29th birthday, but many of us are probably so caught up in the exciting race for the Ivy League lacrosse title that we have hardly given any thought to old Rick in the last few days. Rick, however, likes sports almost as much as his guitar and his Brylcreem, so he'd probably understand...
...waving their order papers like banners, reaching out to pump her hand wildly or scribbling notes to be passed to her. In a debating chamber not often moved by words, Bernadette's had banged like Bogside paving stones. But the next night, in the privacy of her 22nd-birthday dinner, she was wistful about the loss of her days of innocence as a student protester in blue jeans and bulky sweater. "I believe standing for this Parliament destroyed something in myself. Then why did I do it? The people in Ireland needed a moral victory...
...only Nazi prisoner left in West Berlin's forbidding Spandau Prison, Rudolf Hess marked his 75th birthday in grim solitude. There were no gifts, not even from his wife and son, whom he has refused to see during his 22-year incarceration at Spandau because, in his twisted mind, he believes it improper for them to see him in prison. So Hess spent a typical day, walking alone in the garden and feeding the few birds that alight there. Had history taken a different turn, he might have enjoyed the company of another birthday celebrator. Adolf Hitler would have...
Better Feedback. Jack Eckerd, who opened his 113th store last week in Tampa, still likes to call his chain "the family drugstore." He sends every one of his 2,600 employees a personal birthday card, welcomes their suggestions and personally answers every one. To get "better feedback" from his pharmacists and counter clerks, he logs 30,000 miles a year at the wheel of his white Porsche roadster, visiting his stores. Every written complaint from a customer also gets a personal reply. "Nine times out of ten I can't help them," Eckerd admits, "but at least they know...