Word: birthdaying
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...song Happy Birthday to You! is on the block. While the tune may seem like public property, it is one of some 50,000 copyrighted songs owned by the Birch Tree Group music-publishing company of Princeton, N.J. The company's longtime owners, the Sengstack family, are putting it up for sale at an asking price of at least $12 million...
...Kentucky kindergarten teachers, Mildred and Patty Hill, published Happy Birthday in 1893 as Good Morning to All and later added the familiar lyrics. The song was copyrighted in 1935 and earns $1 million a year in royalties. Japan's Casio Computer company, for instance, pays a 1 cents fee for each of the digital watches that it programs to play the tune. The song will earn royalties until 2010, when it will pass into the public domain...
...Well, three events converged to get me to spend three years on this book. The first was the death of my father, which after all, reminds all of us of our own horizon; my 60th birthday, which kind of says, you know, it ain't no dress rehearsal anymore; and third was the birth of a granddaughter which focused me a bit on posterity. Dietrich Bonhoeffer ((a German martyr of the Nazi regime)) said once that the test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. Now that kind of crystallized my view that...
Drinking fruit punch and eating egg rolls and enchiladas, more than 200 people celebrated former Boston mayoral candidate Melvin H. King's 60th birthday last Thursday at Roxbury Community College...
...strategy was simple: depict the Nice Man as incompetent, and the Competent Man as nice. The Governor began to act more like Mike Douglas than Mike Dukakis. In North Dakota he pecked two cheerleaders on the cheek and led a crowd in a spirited rendition of Happy Birthday. No more clenched fists; Dukakis began showing open palms...