Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Party for Prestes. Marking their burgeoning strength, the Communists last week staged a gay party. The occasion: the birthday of their senator-elect leader, smoldering, classic-browed Luis Carlos Prestes. At Communist headquarters by Rio's tree-shaded Flamengo Beach, party members popped firecrackers, chewed gristly, barbecued beef, drank guaraná, a soft drink. While Prestes blew out the 48 candles on a 7-ft., 226-lb. cake decorated with a red hammer & sickle, guests sambaed to a socially significant new tune, "Milk, Meat & Bread...
...fourth generation of Busches is on the way-two small Singhers, four small Serkins. The most musical of them is Johnny Serkin, three, born on Beethoven's birthday, and already learning to draw the bow across his violin. Says Mrs. Adolf: "Nobody is anxious to hurry him. We hate child prodigies...
Sent congratulations to Generalissimo Stalin on his 66th birthday...
...Paul's School, near Concord, N.H., and no St. Paul's grad has ever let anyone forget it. On the black ice of Lower School Pond (it's a bad year when the ice won't bear by Thanksgiving and last till Washington's Birthday), 400 of St. Paul's 437 boys play on 30 intramural teams, on six outdoor rinks, under a dozen assorted coaches. Hockey has always been the school's major sport. The most famed college star ever to wear skates, the late Hobey Baker, in whose memory Princeton named...
...concert promoter in Chicago put it this way: "When I found out it was Hindemith's 50th birthday I said, 'Let's bring the guy here and cut up the cake out here.' I knew it wouldn't mean any cake at the box office but for heaven's sake he's one of the world's foremost musicians, and unless someone takes an interest in what he's doing the public will never know his work. What are we going to do, wait until his 150th anniversary...