Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FANTASY HOUR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A special animated musical, "The Ballad of Smokey the Bear," marks the coming of age of the U.S. Forest Service's favorite fire-prevention symbol. Jimmy Cagney hosts the benevolent bruin's 21st birthday party...
...business. Other cards are designed for the customer President Irving Stone describes as "that sweet little old lady who remembers everybody." Hi Brows are for younger people who want something a little spicier than sugar. Indeed, Hi Brows sometimes hang over the brink of bad taste. "For your birthday," reads one, "just a refreshing wish . . . may your cesspool never clog." For graduation, American Greetings has a suitable Hi Brow: "Your jaw is firm, your gaze is steady, your mind is alert, your head is high . . . your fly is open." Anyone who is tired of traditional Christmas cards can pick...
...would have come across a cheap-looking mimeographed publication called The Pageant of the Beasts, by Anonymous. Selling (in fact best-selling) for a dime, it told of a forest full of animals who put together a pageant in honor of White Swan, a local poet laureate whose 40th birthday...
...world was busy celebrating Pablo Picasso's 85th birthday last week. Some dozen exhibitions have opened from Lapland to the Los Angeles County Museum and Macy's department store in New York City. Bags full of mail and telegrams arrived at Mougins, a tiny town above the bay at Cannes on the French Riviera, where Picasso lives. Grateful citizens of Vallauris, the town Picasso resurrected by reviving its pottery industry, sent a huge bouquet of red roses with a white dove in a cage, and their children sent batches of their best crayon drawings. His wife Jacqueline...
Such caveats may be too harsh. Just how tremendous his lifetime's accomplishment has been will be best seen next month when Paris' Grand Palais and Petit Palais, in a birthday salute, opens the largest Picasso show ever assembled, with 800 works, including 100 from Picasso's own collection. Will he attend? "Go to Paris?" says Picasso. "But I go there only to see my dentist. At the moment, I haven't a toothache...