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...that Pablo Picasso dominated Western art in the 20th century is, by now, the merest commonplace. Before his 50th birthday, the little Spaniard from Malaga had become the very prototype of the modern artist as public figure. No painter before him had had a mass audience in his own lifetime. The total public for Titian in the 16th century or Velazquez in the 17th was probably no more than a few thousand people--though that included most of the crowned heads, nobility and intelligentsia of Europe. Picasso's audience--meaning people who had heard of him and seen his work...
Joyce received the first copy of Ulysses, with its blue binding and white lettering, on his 40th birthday, in 1922. It was his most exhaustive attempt yet to collapse the distinction between literature and life...
Significant donors to the student-run organization included the Rockefeller Foundation and an anonymous member of the Radcliffe class of 1948, who wrote a check for $5,000 on her 21st birthday--the day she came into her inheritance...
Cambridge's only breakfast-table dailycelebrated its 75th year of publication, while theHasty Pudding Theatricals commemorated itscentennial with a six-city tour of theirproduction, Here's the Pitch. The HarvardDramatic Club turned 40 in '48, and the Orchestrafeted its 140th birthday...
...Joanne McAvoy of Alexandria, Va., traded in 130,000 Club Rewards points to give their son Michael, 13, a unique birthday present. In August he will take part in a special five-day space-camp program sponsored by NASA. At one point, he will be put behind the controls of a small two-person propeller plane for 30 minutes and will receive credit toward a private pilot's license. "Our son wants to be a pilot someday, and he is just so excited about taking part in this," says Joanne McAvoy. "I never would have thought you could do something...