Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week France's No. 1 journalist-in-exile packed his belongings in Washington, including his cocker spaniel Busy Bee, gift of his good friend Walter Lippmann, and got ready to sail home. He hoped to celebrate his 63rd birthday on the Atlantic. It had been five years and four months since "Pertinax" sailed out of Bordeaux on a British destroyer, away from a France which had not heeded his Cassandra-like warnings...
Brass Hats, Brass Band. When he and his wife reached the airport last week they got a surprise. "The Brass"-every general in Washington-was on hand, 150 strong. A military band struck up Happy Birthday to You. As the Stimsons walked to the plane, the generals snapped to attention, saluted more smartly than generals usually do. The onetime artillery officer tried to return the salute. But he was misty-eyed as he looked back and called out, "Goodbye...
Haakon VII, 73, King of Norway, was moved to tears at his first meeting in six years with his brother, Christian X of Denmark, planned to remain in Copenhagen for this week's feast of lights on Christian's 75th birthday...
Earl Carroll, showman who went to jail in 1927 for perjury after denying that a naked girl had taken a bath in birthday-party champagne, celebrated his 52nd birthday at his Beverly Hills diggings. A thousand guests watched spotlights play on his swimming pool and on his "most beautiful girls in the world," waded into 40 cases of liquor (only five of champagne...
Selective Service last week relaxed its teen-age draft, at the urging of U.S. educators, mothers and the kids themselves. Boys who entered high school before their 18th birthday will be deferred until 1) graduation, or 2) reaching 20 years-whichever comes first. Exception: those who cease to pursue their schooling "continuously and satisfactorily"; the Army will get them fast if they don't watch...