Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week the diminutive, old-man-like boy was exhibited at a St. Louis symposium on degenerative diseases. Paul showed no fear or shyness, because he knows the doctors well. Newspapermen took Paul's picture, were surprised to learn that he likes toys, wants a big cake on his birthday in the middle of April...
...passed the word. (This was a change in Dewey technique; hitherto newsmen have been cautioned before each Dewey utterance: don't try to find any significance; the Governor is merely tending to his state knitting.) For his venture into significance, Tom Dewey chose as a date his 42nd birthday; as the place, the ninth annual prize exhibit of New York news photographers...
...23rd birthday, the Army Air Forces' Lieut. Donel O'Brien, navigator, was reported "missing in action" after a bombing raid on Germany...
Last week St. Andrew's Chapel at Hartsdale, N.Y., and its minister celebrated their birthdays together. For St. Andrew's it was a rebirthday. Just a year had passed since the Rev. George William Edwards saved the minuscule mission from folding. For Mr. Edwards it was his 53rd birthday and a milestone in an unusual religious experience, a kind of modern Pilgrim's Progress. Says Union Theological Seminary's President Henry Sloane Coffin: "Mr. Edwards' case is unique...
...Parliament on Sir Oswald Mosley's Fascist ticket. He argued the Axis case, appeared with a glib Briton named William Joyce, who became better known as "Lord Haw Haw" (see cut) when England faced destruction. On the war's eve, Hitler invited General Fuller to his birthday celebration. (Said Radio Berlin: ". . . The English genius...