Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Helen Hayes had violent stomach trouble just before Happy Birthday's curtain time in Manhattan; play & star got together again after a one-day intermission...
...went in person to Hitler, to demand an end of Jewish persecution. Hitler turned his back while the old man talked. The following year, Planck was removed from the presidency of the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft (a scientific society). When he celebrated his 80th birthday in 1938, the Government sent no representative...
Shanghai's 20,000 dancing girls were desperate. By Oct. 1, said the Central Government's decree, their feet must be still, their dance halls locked and dark. Like shark fins, sea slugs, imported brandy, birthday parties (except for men over 60) and wedding presents, taxi-dancing was a luxury too frivolous for China's new austerity. The girls, whose average annual salary is $4,500,000 CN ($112 U.S.), fought to keep the party going...
...Washington, General of the Armies John J. Pershing reached 87 at Walter Reed General Hospital (where he has lived for years), watched the usual mounds of birthday greeting rise around him, got serenaded by the U.S. Army Band, passed the rest of the day quietly...
...Books, Inc.) set out a year ago to wean youngsters away from the comics. As more suitable fare for growing minds, a committee of teachers and librarians picked a list of 50 books ranging from Shakespeare's Tragedies to Damon Runyon Favorites. Last week the club celebrated its birthday by totting up first-year sales: the 90,000 members had bought nearly 600,000 books...