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...have four of them over [at Mather House] and I call them Jesse’s Angels...[They are] always giving me gifts for my birthday,” Armstrong says...
...April a Red Army force of 2.5 million had advanced to the Oder River, scarcely 50 miles east of Berlin. Meanwhile, the U.S. Ninth Army had nearly reached the Elbe, about 50 miles to the west. Hitler talked of leaving Berlin by April 20, his 56th birthday, of flying south to organize an invulnerable redoubt in the Alpine forests of Bavaria. But then came fits of wild euphoria, when he ordered his shattered forces to counterattack. "The Russians have overextended themselves so much that the decisive battle can be won at Berlin," he declared. Then came fits of despair, when...
...until the next day, on a chilly gray morning that happened to be Truman's 61st birthday, did the new President go on the radio and read his formal proclamation: "The Allied armies, through sacrifice and devotion and with God's help...
Jarrell kept his disparate natures tightly linked until shortly after his 50th birthday. Then, a depression followed by medication led to manic episodes that landed him in a hospital. A terrible irony ensued. He saw a hostile review of his latest book of poems; several days later the onetime scourge of other poets slashed his left wrist. He recovered and picked up his normal life. Within a few months, while walking along a North Carolina highway shortly after dusk, he was sideswiped and killed by a car. The official verdict was accidental death; the rumor of suicide arose and persisted...
...paper's third birthday next month, that question elicits a mixed answer. USA Today, which appears Monday through Friday, enjoys a circulation of more than 1.3 million, making it the country's third-largest daily.[*] Advertising pages have risen from an average of 6.5 a day for the first six months of 1984 to twelve a day through the first half of 1985. Once ridiculed by journalists across the country as McPaper, the fast-food version of the news, USA Today has been grudgingly accepted in many newsrooms as a different, if not necessarily the best, way of delivering...