Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Krag asked that the artist do his portrait. In 1968 Glazunov finished a portrait of India's Indira Gandhi that the lady greatly admired. Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev reportedly felt much the same way about a portrait of himself that Glazunov, unbidden, executed for Brezhnev's 70th birthday last year...
...Happy Birthday, Bonnie Chance...
More than 300,000 modern-day patriots braved 80-degree temperatures and converged on Boston's Charles River Esplanade Monday to celebrate America's 201st birthday...
Some of last year's Bicentennial spirit, a startling extravagance of good feeling after so much bad, has spilled over into the 201st birthday. Wellesley, Mass., an expensive suburb of Boston, had such an unexpectedly good time with itself last year that it decided to devote this entire summer to community dances, concerts and other parties. The town's weekly newspaper editorialized: "This is the summer to find out what a home town is all about." Last year's tall ships are scattered around the world now, but on the weekend of the Fourth, New York will have an armada...
...continued to work on larger shows, however. Curiously, he first met librettist-lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II at the funeral of operetta-composer Victor Herbert in 1924, and they decided to work together. Their collaboration yielded Sunny the following year, and, most notably, Show Boat, which will have its 50th birthday next December...