Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...73rd birthday, last Oct. 2, the Administration's No. 1 Cabinet officer showed up as usual at his office, but he complained: "I'm sick and I know it." Next day he stayed home. For the past five weeks, with an occasional bedside visit from Franklin Roosevelt, good, grey Cordell Hull has lain abed in the Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Md., under observation and treatment for a throat ailment and exhaustion. This week, reluctantly and on his doctor's advice, Cordell Hull resigned as Secretary of State...
...London this week one of the very few living men of whom it could be said without question: He is a great man, celebrated a birthday. Prime Minister Winston Churchill...
Last week influential, controversial Drew Pearson announced that on Dec. 12 he would write his last column for Roy Howard's United Feature Syndicate. On Dec. 13 (his 47th birthday), Pearson planned to go to work for independent Bell Syndicate, whose stable of writers includes Emily Post, Dorothy Dix, John Kieran. Happy as a grig over the shift, Pearson said that Bell is giving him a flat guarantee of $20,000 a year more than he now earns. (In his twelve years with United Feature, Pearson- and his former partner, Bob Allen, now a colonel in the Army Intelligence...
Gertrude Atherton, taffy-haired, well-rouged, rejuvenated novelist (The Black Oxen, The House of Lee), celebrated her 87th birthday by announcing the completion of her 41st book, Golden Gate Land, a 100,000-word history of her native northern California. She also delivered some birthday thoughts, called the Germans a "nation of fools," declared they should be shown "no mercy." Of the Japanese, she remarked: "Barbarians-they don't belong on this planet...
John Dewey, shy, sage Grand Old Man of U.S. philosophy, father of progressive education, quietly celebrated his 85th birthday in his Manhattan home, calmly reaffirmed his belief in education through scientific inquiry. Professor Dewey, who raised all of his six children by progressive methods, then recalled that one day his five-year-old son had turned on a kitchen faucet, could not turn it off, flooded the room, ran into his father's study and shouted: "Don't say a word, John; get the mop." Professor Dewey smilingly remembered that...