Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though it could be taken to mean not only Yalta's distance in time & space, but also the remoteness of Yalta's mood of fatuous confidence. That afternoon, Ernie Bevin, 66 that day, dropped in on Molotov, who had turned 57 on the same day; the double birthday party was not festive...
...50th anniversary of Brahms's death, he led his NBC Symphony Orchestra through an all-Brahms program. It was played with such precision and such cohesive beauty that listeners had a hard time believing that next week Toscanini will celebrate an anniversary of his own: his 80th birthday...
...Born to Act." How super was he? Since becoming Secretary of State, Marshall has made one speech, a Washington's Birthday address at Princeton University; it left wide-open the question of his stature in his new job. He passed on a wholesome reminder that "peace is yet to be secured." In a pungent passage (which might be applied critically to the U.S. hands-off policy in China) he deplored the spectator attitude of many Americans. He quoted Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Man is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). A one-hour program in celebration of the late Alexander Graham Bell's 100th birthday. Guests: Soprano Helen Traubel, Violinist Jascha Heifetz, Actor Raymond Massey...
Though Lincoln was born south of the Mason-Dixon Line, Illinois was his home state; and his birthday is a statewide sacred day. But in one little Illinois town last week, Abe Lincoln barely got a look-in on his birthday. The town of Sheldon (pop. 1,035) had a private holiday to celebrate, and every lamppost on the main street proclaimed it: "Lizzie Richardson Day, Golden Anniversary...