Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walter B. Pitkin, glum champion of happiness (Life Begins at Forty), announced that he would take no notice of his 71st birthday: "There won't be any candles on the cake because there won't be any cake. I never celebrate anything, not even Christmas. Every day is the same to me." When the big day came, he was still working hard at his newest guide to success, Make Life Worth Living...
...girl who has just passed her twenty-first birthday should know a trombone when she sees one, but the question had its points. Playing the trombone was Jimmy Archey, whose name is not on the marquee, but who seems the outstanding member of a rare band. The Wilber group has a very special talent for integration and quiet harmony which makes it a welcome change from the noisy cacophony which seems popular now. Wilber, Archey, and the aged Pops Foster take turns backing restrained solo breaks, with only the final choruses of such venerable numbers as "Rose Room," "Muskrat Ramble...
...below came to our attention recently when a copy of the Jan. 6 issue of the York (Maine) Weekly turned up in the office. According to the column and a half story accompanying the picture, Charles W. Plaisted, obviously a reader of TIME, was about to celebrate his 100th birthday. To satisfy our curiosity about Mr. Plaisted, who may be the oldest reader of TIME extant, we asked Jeff Wylie, chief of our Boston bureau, to see him on his farm at York Corner...
Douglas MacArthur and Hirohito shared the same festive day. The general celebrated his 69th birthday, the Emperor his 25th wedding anniversary. Hirohito knocked off work for the day and had a little party; MacArthur stuck to his desk, except for the time it took to slice a cake...
...This World This Week," WHDH's Sunday evening analysis of foreign affairs presented by Stephen M. Schewebel '50 and Paul L. Wright '49, celebrated its first birthday this week with the broadcast of February...