Word: birthdaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group of former students and associates formed the Harvey Cushing Society, for the exchange of information on neurology.* Last week, at Yale University, most of the 46 members of the Society, together with a large group of physicians from Vancouver to Boston, met to celebrate the 70th birthday of the world's greatest neurologist. For two and a half days the scientists presented brief reports on their latest accomplishments. On April 8, they capped the celebration by surprising Dr. Cushing with a birthday bibliography of all his writings. Said Dr. Cushing, overwhelmed: "I am deeply gratified and touched...
...remain in the big new Chancellery at Berlin until April i, when he is to go to Wilhelmshaven to launch a new 35,000-ton battleship. He is then to go to his mountain retreats in Bavaria, but is to return to Berlin in time for his soth birthday, April...
...opera turned out to be a sort of musical and dramatic palindrome.* Called Hin und zurück ("There and back"), it walked up to a tragic climax, then backed away from it like an ambassador in a throne room. Its hero comes home on his wife's birthday, gives her a present, discovers a letter from her lover, pulls a pistol, shoots her. While two ambulance surgeons carry out the body, he moans that life means nothing more to him, gulps a cup of tea and jumps out the window...
...would look just as logical in reverse. So the music begins to play backwards, the man uncommits suicide by jumping in through the window, the surgeons back in with the body, which comes alive, the letter goes back to the lover, the husband takes back his wife's birthday present and backs happily out the door. If somewhat short on logic in either direction, this piece of Kulturbolsche-whimsey was just as good fun coming as going...
...tense, redheaded Michael J. ("Mike") Meehan, onetime theatre ticket agent. Same week in 1935 that SEC started to drive him off the Exchange on charges of rigging Bellanca Aircraft stock, Broker Meehan bought a $130,000 seat for his son William as a 21st birthday present. Last week the Exchange announced that a seat had been sold for $60,000 to Mike Meehan's youngest son, Joseph, 21, a senior at Fordham University. If the sale is approved, Joseph Meehan will become the Exchange's youngest and its only undergraduate member...