Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whose great stadium the Nazi Party used to assemble in vain glory once a year, had been fanatically defended by Volksstürmer, remnants of the 17th SS Division, elements of 32 different Wehrmacht outfits. After five days of desperate fighting, it fell, on Hitler's 56th birthday. The town (but not the stadium) was 95% ruined. Correspondents who had followed the Allied armies across Germany all the way from Aachen said they had never seen such total destruction...
...saying thank you for U.S. support of last year's Festival, with its record-breaking attendance of 230,000. Besides playing Beatrice in the opening Much Ado About Nothing, Actress Luce will appear in Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, play Cleopatra in the birthday performance (April 23) of Antony & Cleopatra...
Only those whose 17th birthday falls between October 1, 1944 and August 31, 1945 are eligible. Cuts will be excused, Perkins commented, "I should not advise anybody already in Harvard College to leave at this time to join the ASTRP . . . . It would only break up his Harvard education to start a new one." Anyone desiring further information is asked to contact Perkins through the Lowell House Secretary...
...years of operating on some 20,000 patients, Manhattan's famed Surgeon John F. Erdmann (TIME, Dec. 7, 1942) has always managed to perform at least one operation on his birthday. But last week, as his 81st birthday loomed, none of his patients needed an operation. Gloomily Dr. Erdmann decided he would have to let his record stop...
...Just then," says he, "a young lady with a stomachache came to see me. It turned out she needed an intestinal resection (piece of intestine removed). I did it on the morning of my birthday and it was a humdinger. It saved my record...