Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Betty called it a night. When she got back to her Park Avenue apartment there was her mother, still up and indignant. Cried Mrs. Faulkner: "You gypped me." Betty soothed her. Next month, she promised, mother was going to get a really big party to celebrate her 96th birthday. It would be at the St. Regis or maybe the Stork Club. She would let the photographers know in plenty of time...
Last week it was the city's turn to honor the composer. In the cool, wide Romanesque gardens of Budapest's Karolyi Palace, concertgoers gathered to pay Zoltan Kodaly homage on the 25th birthday of his best-but not best known-work. First they heard the Budapest Symphony Orchestra galumph pleasantly through the concert suite from Kodaly's bright, bumptiously good-humored opera...
...literary news, therefore, that in the 76th summer of De la Mare's life, his work has at long last gotten some of the critical recognition it deserves. In April a book of praises from some of England's most respected writers came out on his birthday; last month the Crown made him a Companion of Honor (TIME, June...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor celebrated the Duke's 54th birthday at the Stork Club, next day sailed off for their occasional home in France, with a modest retinue and 120 pieces of luggage...
...affair was Paris' biggest and smartest since the liberation. In the refined splendor of the Hotel Ritz garden last week, some 1,500 diplomats and millionaires and their ladies gathered to sip champagne and nibble pastries in honor of the hotel's 50th birthday. None contributed more glitteringly to the glitter than a white-haired little woman who greeted them at the entrance in fluent French, English or Spanish. She was 81-year-old Marie Louise ("Mimi") Ritz, widow of the man who founded the hotel-and thereby made his name a synonym for ultra-fashionable...