Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside his big Dutch Colonial house, a brass band serenaded him with Hail to the Chief, a number usually reserved for the President. Friends and ward heelers greeted him deliriously. Jim viewed with emotion a big white cake with red letters that spelled out: "Happy Birthday to Our Beloved Boss." The boss had already celebrated the occasion in jail...
Winston Churchill received tributes by the hundreds† and presents by the score on his 73rd birthday. Among the presents: a bold seascape in oil by seven-year-old Grandson Winston II, whose art teacher is his grandfather. Winston II explained to the inquiring press why he hadn't yet done a portrait of his grandfather: "He wouldn't keep still...
Arthritis also plagued Trixie Friganza, once brunette-&-bubbly queen of bubbly operettas. She more or less celebrated her 77th birthday abed in Flintridge, Calif...
Loser. In Boston, Allan Sharp, who in 1942 had bet his doctor $10 that he would not live to be 65, happily mailed the money on his birthday, walked back upstairs, dropped dead...
...stonily, clutching her daughter with one hand and a note from school in the other. The doctor briskly pulled on a white coat and shot a rapid greeting at his youngest patient, a moon-faced ten-year-old: "Hello, Midgie, I hear you got a new football for your birthday." The boy grinned...