Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter which was recalled in the Atlantic last week by his biographer, Catherine Drinker Bowen (Yankee from Olympus). The letter was written when the Justice was old, alone and with "no one to call him by his first name," to students who wanted to celebrate his goth birthday: "On the eighth of March, 1862 . . . the sloop Cumberland was sunk by the Merrimac, off Newport News. The vessel went down with her flag flying-and when a little later my regiment arrived . . . I saw the flag still flying above the waters. . . . It was a lifelong text for a young man. Fight...
...well-founded theory that people are most interested in people and places they know, the West Virginia Network tried an experiment in "country journalism." Last week the Washington news bureau of the network* celebrated its first birthday, and could congratulate itself on proving that its kind of radio coverage had paid...
President Conant, who celebrated his fifty-second birthday yesterday, will make his first address of the current term as he speaks informally at a meeting of Sigma Xi to be held in the Lecture Hall of the Fogg Art Museum on Monday, April 12, at 8 o'clock. The meeting is to be preceded by a dinner at the Faculty Club at 6:30 o'clock, which members of the club and their friends will attend...
This week, Joseph Pulitzer Jr., publisher of a newspaper that is now considered one of the nation's half-dozen best, invited his 1,152 staff members, and about a hundred Post-Dispatch alumni, to come to his 60th birthday party (champagne, breast of chicken, speeches...
...minor crisis arose on the trip to Yalta when the President observed his 63rd birthday. The President's chefs had baked a cake; so had the cooks for the officers' mess. It looked as though one group of chefs would be disappointed, until Daughter Anna Boettiger solved the dilemma. She ordered three more cakes, of varying sizes. The cakes were piled one on top of the other. The first four were labeled First Term, Second Term, Third Term, Fourth Term. On the top cake was a huge question mark. Wrote Correspondent Cornell: "It produced plenty of laughs...