Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baptist Arrival. Plain-talking, liberal Harry Emerson Fosdick wanted to retire three years ago as pastor of the Riverside Church. His trustees persuaded him to wait out the war, later agreed to fix the date as his 68th birthday: May 24, 1946. Last week, with that date at hand, the congregation announced his successor, Robert James McCracken, 42, professor of church history and the philosophy of religion at Ontario's McMaster University...
...Diligenti Quintuplets of Argentina-Carlos Alberto, Maria Ester, Maria Fernanda, María Cristina, and Franco-posed for photographers and looked like a fine quiver-full for Papa. Their dresses and ribbons looked like the same they wore for their second-birthday picture last July. But María Fernanda now asserted herself -with a spit curl...
...most U.S. railroads, like geysers, give out sporadically. Only the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. is an Old Faithful. Last week Pennsy performed on schedule; it declared its 99th consecutive common stock dividend. The $1 dividend will be made to Pennsy's 214,995 stockholders on April 13, the 100th birthday of the road...
Senator Burton K. Wheeler achieved the age of 64 in Washington, and, striking a preprandial birthday pose for photographers, achieved something more remarkable : simply staring at a quarter of buffalo he managed to look as if he were giving his brightest, politest attention to a talkative constituent...
...would be if she brought a friend home from school. Since she dreaded their displeasure like death itself, she ran away from the one schoolmate who ever invited herself. She was an intelligent child, but instinctively, the gentle morons of the school were drawn to her. On her 16th birthday the Pierres gave her a party. Only then did it occur to them that they had never allowed her to take dancing lessons...