Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bostonians might resent such darts if an outsider threw them. But Dahl hails from neighboring Quincy (pronounced-in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts-"Quinzy"), is accepted as one of the family. He started on the Herald in 1928 as a $20-a-week illustrator. By last week, on his 39th birthday, his bosses (who hand sonorous, syndicated Columnist Bill Cunningham $25,000 a year) had raised Boston's top local cartooner to $115 a week...
Shubert:Happy Birthday Plymouth: Present Laughter Opera House: Song of Norway Ballet Russe (next week) Wilbur: Born Yesterday Colonial: John Gabriel Borkman Symphony Hall: Kreisler Templeton Hayes Jordan Hall: Josh Whte Winslow Posset
...coal-mining business. But the delegates stamped and whistled happily only when the resolutions: 1) praised Lewis; 2) called for a "substantial" raise in Lewis' $25,000-a-year salary; 3) proposed to create a new U.M.W. holiday to honor Lewis (probably Feb. 12, Lewis' birthday...
...blatant columns of type, cartoons and pictures, Hearst's New York Journal-American last week went on a seven-day sentimental jag. Occasion: the golden anniversary of William Randolph Hearst's brash invasion of the New York newspaper field. Like any 50-year-old celebrating a birthday (see above), the Journal remembered just what it wanted to about the good old days...
...Happy Birthday" is an epigrammatic field day for novelist Anita Loos. Like Saroyan's "Time of Your Life," the setting is a saloon: the Jersey Mecca Cocktail Bar in Newark. Across the stage passes a steady procession of Everyman inebriate--the abortionist and his clients, the cop and his yeggs, the tarts, the footloose old maids, and the young businessman out on the make. Joining in the merry-making--by cautious degrees, to be sure--is Addie Bemis, librarian, who swills three "Pink Ladies" and throws repression to the winds. It's the happy Birthday of her life...