Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Below, crowds applauded and sang Happy Birthday. Fowler, who had charged admission, gave him the proceeds-$415.-25. The professor was invigorated. Next day he walked across again...
Last week, on his 82nd birthday, the professor put on his tiny, camel-hide shoes. He picked up his 24-ft., 24-lb. balancing pole and stepped out into yawning space. In mid-canyon he stopped, knelt creakily until one knee touched the wire, lurched up, went on. Pale, panting, drenched with sweat, he reached the other side...
Hoover Homecoming (Tues. 4:45 p.m., Mutual). The former President in a 74th-birthday address from his home town, West Branch, Iowa...
Last year, after his 87th birthday, he began growing steadily weaker. One day last week he fell into a deep coma and his only son was called to his bedside. A few hours later President Harry Truman announced the death of John Joseph ("Black Jack"*) Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World...
...outbreak of smallpox in New York, or plague in California), the public sees little of its day-to-day workings. Yet the P.H.S. has helped improve the health of every man, woman & child in the U.S. Last week, few people noticed that the P.H.S. was celebrating its 150th birthday...