Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Romantic" symphony is majestic but brisk, brassy and free of the tedious, otherworldly vapors that sometimes surround the innocent mystic's lengthy work. This is one of six recordings with London's Philharmonia Orchestra (including symphonies by Stravinsky, Dvorak and Mozart) that celebrate Klemperer's 80th birthday...
...Happy Birthday. The week's last party was for some 1,300 House and Senate staffers, and when Johnson emerged to greet them, he had in tow Henry Cabot Lodge, who had been called in to consult with the President about Viet Nam. Johnson praised the bipartisanship of congressional leaders and men like Lodge ("He's here for just one reason, and it isn't because he opposed me for the vice-presidency in 1960"), and reported that the 75 bills, 300 reports and 200 messages that he had sent to Congress since Jan. 4 had been...
President Hubert Humphrey, whom he had summoned to the bandstand with his wife Muriel, noted that it was Humphrey's 54th birthday. Said he: "Hubert does most of the things I take credit for, and if some of those votes get split up there he'll get some of the blame." Humphrey laughed, blushed and beamed as the President led the guests in singing "Happy Birthday." With that, Johnson headed for a waiting helicopter for a holiday trip to Texas...
...year Tokyo tenure,. Joe Grew found himself in just that posi tion, and his efforts to sway the issue toward peace were, even though un successful, a model of diplomacy at its finest. When he died last week, two days before his 85th birthday, in Manchester, Mass., Grew still symbolized the very best of another era of American diplomacy - an era in which ambassadors in trouble posts operated un der broad directives, were not bound to the clacking embassy teletype and made considerable policy on their own initiative...
...Once there was a man who had everything. His wife, therefore, was at a loss about what to get him for his birthday. So she consulted the attendant at a local gift emporium. "Why don't you give him a nice smipe?" the helpful fellow suggested. "We have a very fancy one made of embossed leather and brass." "The very thing!" cried the wife in delight, realizing that a smipe was the one thing her husband didn't have. Needless to say, the man was ecstatic over his present, and for a week he did nothing but play with...