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Immediately after reading his decision, Sorkow called the Sterns into his chambers and to their surprise proceeded to the adoption by which Dr. Stern was named the baby's legal mother. Four days after her first birthday, Baby M. got the belated gift of a new name on her birth certificate: Melissa Elizabeth Stern. The jubilant father told reporters, "I'm so happy." Then he broke down in tears...
What the eager art world saw at Christie's on Monday of last week, Van Gogh's 134th birthday, was less a market transaction than a quasi-religious rite. The house was being washed in the blood of Vincent, the Lamb of Modernism. (And none too soon, skeptics might say, since less than two years ago the president of Christie's, David Bathurst, had to admit that he had tried to rig the market by falsely announcing he had sold a Van Gogh and a Gauguin...
THOMAS CLAYTON WOLFE received the first copy of his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, on his 29th birthday. In it, he developed a theme: "that men are strangers, that they are lonely and forsaken, that they are in exile on this earth, that they are born, live and die alone...
...quits school and is on her own, drifting somewhere in Johannesburg. Eventually she takes up with an antigovernment journalist and then, during the summer of 1963, flees the country with him after the cottage they share has been ransacked by police. She is some months shy of her 20th birthday...
...jurors range in age from mid-20s to early 70s. Old friends by now, they celebrate each anniversary of the Kemner trial with a birthday cake. Two years ago, on Judge Goldenhersh's 40th birthday, they presented him with a silver plaque inscribed with their names and juror numbers...