Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bernard Baruch's friends handed him a 76th birthday present which everybody earnestly hoped would look just as jolly to the world a decade hence. It was a playful Derso-&-Kelen cartoon of Baruch and fellow delegates to the Atomic Energy Commission, all dressed up like Dumas' jolly musketeers...
...kind of weekend the President loved. That afternoon there was a picnic for Bess Truman's mother, Mrs. David W. Wallace; the next day a formal birthday dinner in her honor. Harry Truman got a rare opportunity to drive his own car when he went over to visit his mother again, accompanied only by a secret service agent...
...year old last week, the Atomic Age was offered, as one of its birthday presents, Atomic Power!, the first moving picture to portray it not as cloak-&-Geiger-counter melodrama but as deadly serious historical fact. MARCH OF TIME, with the cooperation of 20-odd scientists, who appear in the picture, has retraced and re-enacted the main publishable stages in its cause and towards its possible cure. The motion in charts and animation makes newly graphic the basic principles of fission; shots heretofore unreleased to the screen suggest some of the effects, including, as one emblem or symbol more...
Haakon of Norway turned 74; Oslo's celebrating citizens celebrated his 70th for good measure. Because the Germans had arrested people who wore birthday boutonnieres then, they all wore them for his 70th this year...
...long a procession of literary pilgrims plodded through his Ayot St. Lawrence home near London. "I don't like this," he howled. "They've come to see the animal just because he's 90." But Shavian wit was up to the occasion. Some birthday shafts...