Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vogue of Slavic music is definitely past; for Koussevitzky to make as much money out of Tchaikovsky as Freddy Martin is a form of disrespect for his audience. The celebration, with much pomp, of the eightieth birthday of a composer who stopped writing 20 years ago, and whose acceptability has been constantly sinking since, is not in the best of taste: let the poor...
This week, in a proper climax, plain Harry Truman will climb aboard the Missouri, eat lunch and review the 50 war ships moored off Manhattan. The day -Oct. 27 - is Navy Day, the birthday of the late Theodore Roosevelt, whode clared: "The Navy of the United States is the right arm of the United States. . . . Woe to our country if we permit that right arm to become palsied...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower celebrated his 55th birthday in fine style. He went to a Frankfurt am Main football game, raced his friend General Georgie Patton across the field. Into his box popped an impulsive WAC private, who bussed him soundly. Some 20,000 G.I.s rose and sang, "Happy Birthday, Dear General...
King George persuaded the BBC to change ITMA's broadcast time to a later hour so as not to upset the palace dinner routine. Princess Elizabeth, on her sixteenth birthday, had the cast invited to Windsor Castle for Britain's first and only command radio performance...
...stood on the campus at Chapel Hill as a clutch of topflight U.S. educators (among them 14 college presidents, including Harvard's James Bryant Conant) gathered to hold the annual meeting of the Association of American Universities and to help the University of North Carolina celebrate its 150th birthday. (North Carolina's party had been in progress since 1939: celebrating first the 150th anniversary of its charter grant, then of its cornerstone laying, etc.) Proud old University of Georgia says it got its charter first, but North Carolina has an undisputed claim to the event it celebrates this...