Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...64th birthday last week, Harry Truman's weight was a perfect 174, his blood pressure normal, his metabolism good. His hair was greying, his face showed the years; but his physician, Brigadier General Wallace Graham, pronounced him as fit as ever...
...office at the usual 8:20 a.m., the President was given a fat manila folder full of birthday greetings from around the world, with a hefty sheaf from Kansas City and Missouri. On his desk was a white-iced angel-food cake. Among his birthday presents: 64 red roses, a new gold World War I service button, a fancy rifle, a miniature bronze horse from a nine-year-old in Douglas, Wyo. who shares his birthday...
Patients were not required to return for a second visit. Some died (of diabetes); others developed the sores of diabetic gangrene. One little boy was told by the kindly old doctors that it would be quite all right for him to eat ice cream again. He went to a birthday party, ate heartily and sank into a diabetic coma...
Moscow's Pravda did some boasting last week in honor of Press Day, marking its 36th birthday. In 30 years, said Pravda, the Russian press has grown from 884 to 7,163 papers with 31,100,000 circulation. Pravda alone claimed 2,200,000, which made it Russia's biggest and the world's fourth biggest daily.* Pioneer Pravda, for young Communists, was second with 1,000,000, and Izvestia third with...
Messrs. Laughton, Camera and Milestone also do the best they can, and once in a while-notably at a White Russian birthday party-the picture comes to some kind of life. But on the whole the show has a kind of pathos that is not the kind intended; the spectacle of a lot of talented people, before and behind the camera, doing their desperate best in an effort which they seem clearly to know is foredoomed...