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...beer breath of mortality on their own necks. Nolan Ryan, whom sportswriter Thomas Boswell has called "the Act of God," is the wondrous exception to this melancholy rule. The Texas Ranger hurler is 43 years old now, and he has more major league records than candles on his next birthday cake...
...April 1968, on the eve of Father's birthday, I arrived as usual to spend the weekend at the dacha. Father wasn't inside. Mama said that he had gone to the edge of the forest...
...SEASONINGS. He may not be around to act as host at birthday bashes anymore, but high-profile millionaire Malcolm Forbes figured out a way to reward friends from the grave. His yet-to-be-released will bequeaths $1,000 each to the proprietors of nine New York City dining spots "as a token of gratitude for the joy their skills and genius added to the lives of those who've been lucky and sensible enough to dine at their restaurants." Included in the list are the creme de la creme of upscale eating: Andre Soltner of Lutece, Paul Kovi...
...closer to home, Harvard, too, indulged in the feel-good daydream and suffered for it. Most of the Class of '90 arrived in Cambridge days after he University's sprawling week-long party for its 350th birthday. Coming after the shamelessly commercial Los Angeles Olympic ceremonies and the orgiastic Statue of Liberty commemoration, Harvard spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on flag-waving majorettes, fireworks, concert orchestras and multimedia projections in The Stadium...
...kaleidoscopic overdose. Tiffany would perhaps have been embarrassed by such a showing of his lamps. He considered them rankly commercial and beneath his talents. They were, however, a convenient way to use up the several tons of glass chips and shards remaining from his monumental windows. At his 68th birthday party, where more than 160 examples of his art were displayed, Tiffany exhibited only one lamp: a unique construction in which a golden glass globe is supported by shimmering enameled copper peacock heads. Still, the leaded-glass lamps became best sellers and were turned out by the hundreds, peaking...