Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's 71st birthday, but he was hardly in a mood for festivities. In his hand as he rose to address an ear-cupping House of Commons was his 5,000-word report on the control of atomic energy, drafted after his recent Washington conference with President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee...
King George VI quietly, unofficially turned 50, marked the day by 1) a family luncheon party, 2) a dinner for 20 guests, 3) a dance for 100. Britain's sovereign will not have his official 50th birthday for six months. The reason: English weather smiles more happily on June birthday celebrations...
Same day, another youngster in the fast-growing family of Field enterprises had a birthday. For the four-year-old Chicago Sun, deep in the red, it was a red-letter day that saw its first A.P. copy (TIME, Dec. 10) roll out of clacking teletype printers. He was still being politely charitable about his rival, the Chicago Tribune's autocratic Robert Rutherford McCormick. Field's comment: "He runs a very efficient paper...
...Birthday Party...
...former years, the Lowell Christmas dinner and play were planned to coincide with the birthday of A. Lawrence Lowell, President of the University from 1909 to 1933, which fell on December 13. Before his death in 1943, the late ex-President annually attended these celebrations, at which he cut his huge birthday cake, Elliott Perkins, Master of Lowell, will speak briefly at dinner, prior to the play, in honor of the former president...