Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...celebrating King George III's 25th birthday, the Chippewas and Sacs in 1763 got together for some in tertribal bagataway - lacrosse,* in pale face language - outside Quebec's Fort Michilimackinac. Invited to watch the fun, the Fort's entire garrison gathered on the sidelines. Whereupon the braves dropped their bagataway sticks, grabbed their tomahawks, and staged one of the bloodiest massacres in Canadian history...
...Bergdorf's but its real title is My Name Is Barbra, an hourlong, one-girl, CBS-TV special this week. The taped show is also Barbra Streisand's way of saluting her first year in Broadway's smash hit, Funny Girl, and her own 23rd birthday. It is the most enchanting, tingling TV hour of the season...
...rich that she spurned an offer of 10,000 francs for one night, and the luckless man killed himself in humiliation. Young Prince Peter of Russia begged Otero, "Ruin me, but don't leave me." Premier Aristide Briand traveled to the Riviera for Otero's birthday, and once she told him, "It is fortunate you are so ugly. Otherwise, you could have induced me to folly...
...first the chants from the Lampoon steps were entirely unrelated to Vietnam: an LBJ echo cheer, "Happy Easter" sung to the tune of "Happy Birthday" and a stirring rendition of "My Country 'tis of Thee." As a finale we planned to stage a protest Easter egg roll in front of the buses. Unfortunately the buses had not arrived when the purely frivolous chants began to wear thin. An effort to play a tape of last week's "Shindig" to fill the gap failed because we did not have a loud enough speaker...
...billed as the "World's Largest Birthday Cake"-32 ft. high, 75 ft. across and 20 tons heavy, topped by 50 electric candles. But it wasn't really a cake at all; it was made of steel and latticework and 30,000 growing plants. And this outsize inedibility was quite fitting. For the 50th birthday it celebrated was that of the wonderfully unreal stage show called Miami Beach...