Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Masefield was without a cake on his 70th birthday. Down with a cold, he skipped all celebrating. Outside of his family, nobody sent him a present. And the Poet Laureate, who sings like clockwork on royal anniversaries, received not a couplet...
Eileen is not quite sure how old she is, because her illiterate miner father never registered her birth. She guesses that she is mid-thirty-ish, celebrates her birthday on Nov. 12 "for no reason at all-just as an excuse for presents and a quiet party...
This week, on his 62nd birthday, Kurt Hahn proudly recalled those days. But Schoolmaster Hahn is no man to live on his memories. After Hitler threw him out of Germany, he opened a school in Scotland and one in Wales. Just back in Britain from a fund-raising visit to the U.S., Hahn is now working on plans to start a string of new schools in Germany (one of his old boys has reopened Salem). His formidable goal: 100 schools, a million graduates, in ten years...
...meanest medic had not been caught in an abortion mill, had not brazenly advocated socialized medicine, or neglected a patient. Nothing of the sort. He had contrived to keep a broken-hipped Illinois Civil War veteran alive (he lived to his 106th birthday) by denying him his chief pleasure in life: attending G.A.R. exercises on Memorial...
Over this empire, Bill Mellon, as president and later as chairman, kept a tight hold-until last week. Then, a few days before his 80th birthday, Oilman Mellon announced his retirement...