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...also a beer bust. The Fourth is that odd American mixture of patriotic fervor and bleary ease, of sunburn and a deeper stirring. The Founders adopted the Declaration of Independence in July and not in February (imagine sending fireworks up in a snowstorm), and so the national birthday is both the nation's most powerful rite of communal identity and merely the lazy and unreflective beginning of high summer...
...apprehensive McWhirter joined Bombeck over the course of several weeks this spring, participating in her own family birthday party, a charity benefit and a shoot for a Good Morning America segment. "Erma is a truly inventive, comic force, mugging continually, swatting one-liners everywhere," he says. "When she is on the phone, she is on the phone. Lunch is funny. The guest-bathroom soap is funny. Even the imminent house guests are funny...
...ready becoming a palimpsest of confusion: diverse typists' errant renderings of various stages of Joyce's manuscript, compounded by a team of French-speaking printers who were being hectored by the author to get the finished product into his hands on the occasion of his 40th birthday...
...listen to the thing once," lamented one of Rowny's colleagues. Rowny's attempts at bon homie did little to improve morale. At a birthday party for one of the secretaries attached to the delegation, Rowny pulled out a harmonica and asked the group to sing along while he played "the arms-control theme song." The tune he played was I'm For ever Blowing Bubbles...
Meanwhile, over at Kensington Palace in London, Prince William, who went through all that two years ago this week, took a pre-birthday turn for reporters. He displayed his mastery of "Daddy," "ball," "ant" and "tractor." Headlined the Sun: WILLIE GOES TALKIES...