Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Stimson went home with his wife to West Hills, L.I., on his 78th birthday. The crowded week had brought him the Distinguished Service Medal, awarded by Harry Truman for 40 years of work, "exceptional in the history of the nation." There had been the big reception at Dumbarton Oaks, the farewell press conference, the final Cabinet meeting. Henry Stimson. correct and courtly as ever, loved...
...regulation does not provide that college students my finish the term they are in if they are under twenty years of age. It provides that college students who entered college before their eighteenth birthday, and who receive a notice of induction during a term in which they are actively in attendance, may ask for postponement of induction until the end of the term. If the board finds that a man entered before he was eighteen, and was in attendance during a term, and in good standing, they will grat postpoement to the end of the term...
...does not matter how many terms ago a man entered college, so long as he did it before his eighteenth birthday...
Milton S. Hershey, purveyor of chocolate bars and philanthropy (some $60,000,000 worth to orphans), observed his 88th birthday in the Pennsylvania town that bears his name, and revealed his own rich recipe for success: "Late to bed and late to rise...
Another statistician, Metropolitan Life Insurance's Paris R. Eastman (no kin to Nicholas J.), was sure which is the best month. Said he in last week's American Journal of Public Health: ". . . August babies have the best chance of surviving to their first birthday...