Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million people have seen its 23,000 performances of 121 plays. It has toured Europe and the U.S. in triumph, and its techniques have influenced the theater everywhere. Last week, in its home town (where few anniversaries over the 31st are celebrated), the Moscow Art Theater marked its soth birthday with full official hoopla...
...Saturday Evening Post, oldest U.S. magazine, last week helped its brother celebrate, a birthday. The juvenile monthly Jack and Jill was ten years old. Rummaging through Jack and Jill's letters column (it draws 18,000 letters a year), the Post collected a piece on "Kids Believe the Darnedest Things." Some of the things they believe: that bird dogs fly, that "juvenile" means bad and "delinquent" means children, that Lincoln's address was Gettysburg, that when it rains it rains all over, and that radios are inhabited by entertaining little people who ought to be applauded and occasionally...
...confused maneuvers of the Berlin impasse, some 40 members of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Assembly found time one evening last week to give a small party. Held in a suite in Paris' Hotel Crillon, it was in celebration of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt's 64th birthday. Mrs. Roosevelt was late...
From there on, the delegates tried to outdo each other in expressions of fealty. They decided that his birthday, Feb. 12, should be a holiday† in the soft-coal fields. They learned that John L. had not paid his $30,000 contempt fines out of his own pocket but out of the union's till, and voted retroactive approval of that. John had merely to suggest that the U.M.W.'s $13 million bankroll ought to be bolstered so that he could have more "available funds in a crisis." With audible grumbles, the delegates voted to boost their...
...Freeman purposely finished it on Lee's birthday...