Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flowers in the hospital room were a birthday gift from his wife, received just before the warrant was served...
Roses, gladioli and snapdragons adorned his bedside table in bright profusion as Dr. Hugh Hamilton, one of Kansas City's leading obstetricians, spent his 49th birthday last week in the St. Joseph Hospital, where he had practiced for many years. The second-floor staff brought in a cake with pink icing. But it was not a happy occasion, for outside his room stood police guards on around-the-clock duty, turning away visitors. The day before, Dr. Hamilton had been charged in a warrant with trying to poison his wife; it was the latest of the many troubles that...
...teachers, received the most appropriate of birthday presents: songs by four of his most eminent pupils in honor of his seventieth birthday. Virgil Thomson's Kyrie Eleison, with a rhythmically free main line that seemed to float between sopranos and basses, had some startling harmonies and enough consistency to make it the most memorable of the four. Some rather academic music by Allen Sapp and Randall Thompson, and Henry Leland Clarke's complicated, episodic treatment of Happy Is the Man (Proverb 3:13) at least proved how very diverse Davison's influence has been...
...Patrick's Day, the President pinned a sprig of shamrocks on his lapel and joined the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick at their annual dinner. During the week he pressed, as all Presidents must, a couple of ceremonial buttons: one. on the Republican Party's 100th birthday, that lighted up an "eternal flame" at the little schoolhouse in Ripon. Wis. where the G.O.P. was born; the other activated the big new Fort Randall Dam on the Upper Missouri River (see BUSINESS...
This tribute to Archibald T. Davison '06, James E. Ditson Professor of Music, is not merely a sentimental birthday gift; it is another credit to the man who has devoted 43 years to popularizing worthwhile music at Harvard and who now plans to retire at the year...