Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still the most vivid recollection of my eight-year-old son, whom he entertained daily with his wonderful fairy stories of "Winkie Doodle"-interspersed with bits of his own true life story in China. On my son's sixth birthday, Uncle Don invited him to his "shanty," in Santo Tomàs, for a birthday dinner (no mean invitation when every mouthful was weighed carefully), and promised that some day when we got out he'd give him a bicycle; Last year, at Christmas, a money order arrived for that purpose. He was a true friend, no less...
When Stalin celebrated his 60th birthday on Dec. 21, 1939, every member of the Politburo but Zhdanov had some variation of the congratulatory tribute to "our father and teacher, our bright sun, hope and glory of peoples" printed in all Russian newspapers. Zhdanov was not even allowed at the party...
...72nd birthday party, Winston Churchill's 60-lb. cake in token of his catholicity of taste in headgear, wore 32 assorted little hats. Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council, drew a distressed tut from the British trade paper, Tailor and Cutter, which ran two pictures of him. "Take the picture above," wrote the editor. "Quite nice. The stripes run parallel to the edge of the lapel. . . . Now look at the larger photograph. Oh! ... the trousers are too short. . . . The over coat is not a very pleasant sight. . . . And why is[he] so careless with his buttons and flaps...
...five trips were outlined at last night's dinner meeting of the Mountaineering Club at the Faculty Club. These trips, which will consist of ice climbing and skiing on Mount Washington in the Presidential Range, will come during the Christmas vacation, the recess between terms, the Washington's Birthday weekend, the spring vacation, and Patriots...
...Italian countess, did not accept the offer. But after her husband died, she remembered it. Last week, in its small (25 ft. by 35 ft.) but plushy quarters on Manhattan's Park Avenue, Countess Mara, Inc. celebrated its eighth and most opulent anniversary. Since its first birthday, sales (of silk ties only, at $6.50 to $15 each) have increased over 1,400%; they netted $40,155 last year...