Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...service in memory of LeBaron Russell Briggs '75, former Dean of Harvard College, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, President of Radcliffe College, and for forty-two years teacher of English at Harvard, will be held in Memorial Church at 4.30 o'clock, December 11, the birthday of Dean Briggs. Dean Briggs died last April 24th. Harvard alumni and members of the University are especially invited to the memorial service...
Longtime dream of Atlantic City's Mayor Harry Bacharach has been a new railroad station for "America's Playground." Last week, on his 61st birthday, Mayor Bacharach's dream came true. To the dedication exercises of the resort's new $250,000 Union Station went Governor Arthur Harry Moore, Vice President Martin Withington Clement of Pennsylvania Railroad and many a cheering Atlantic Citizen. The new station has eight loading platforms three blocks long, can handle 10,000 visitors at once. Eliminated are two old railroad stations, twelve grade crossings...
...learn years ago. A pioneer advocate of weekday religious instruction for children, Dr. Wenner has written many a tome, still doaders gently among his books and papers. Last week he spoke briefly at Christ Church at an anniversary service which was much more quiet than the one on his birthday last May. Of his long service Pastor Wenner said simply: "I stay here because I like the Lutheran Church, and because I like the Germans, and because I am a minister of Jesus Christ. I love Jesus Christ, and I find myself able to do some work...
Guest of the Society of Women Geographers on her 84th birthday was slim, birdlike Annie Smith Peck, who closed her mountain-climbing career two years ago by tramping up Mount Madison. It was to signalize the most famed of Miss Peck's exploits that the Peruvian Government in 1908 named the northern peak of Mount Huascaran Cumbre Ana Peck. Miss Peck scaled Cumbre Ana Peck on the sixth attempt but her Swiss guide lost his own mittens and one of hers because "the fool, he didn't put his foot on them...
...long, and at times too conscious of its message, Little Friend (the title is an ironic use of the nickname Hilliard gives to Felicity Hughes) is certainly one of the more distinguished British importations of the season. Good shot: Felicity dancing with the confectioner's boy at her birthday party...