Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Evangeline Booth, the Salvation Army's retired international commander, finally recovering from a long siege of flu, had four friends in to dinner on her 82nd birthday...
About 5,000 people live in the little community of Neosho, Mo. This year, as the Christmas season began, Attorney Wayne Slankard and a few of his friends felt an urge to do something special, they wanted to come closer to the spiritual meaning of Christ's birthday. They decided to meet at 7:15 every morning-men only-for half an hour's devotion in the grey stone Presbyterian Church. Perhaps 50 or so might show up, they thought...
...victory of partition (see FOREIGN NEWS), a quieter celebration went on last week in a modest office off Zion Square in Jerusalem. Editor Gershon Agronsky, 54, just home from covering the fateful U.N. debates at Lake Success, gathered his Palestine Post staffers around him. While they sang Happy Birthday, he gravely cut a cake and the staff sipped wine. Thus the doughty little (circ. 23,000) daily that is the London Times of the Middle East-and the authoritative voice of the Zionist moderates-passed its 15th birthday...
...required by law to submit everything," he says, "but God help you if you don't." He knows that the Post will face a heavier responsibility as the British pull out. The best tribute the Post has had came from the British High Commissioner on its tenth birthday. Sir Harold MacMichael congratulated the paper for "stating facts fairly, respecting confidences and avoiding equally sensationalism, snobbery and cheap insinuation...
...South are turned out by a college with only.a wisp of national fame. Its alumni include the presidents of 16 colleges and universities, hundreds of superintendents and principals. This week, on its 60-acre colonnaded campus in Nashville, George Peabody College for Teachers quietly marked its 162nd birthday, and prepared to carry on with the earnest air of an evangelist who knows that there is always another soul to be saved...