Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their new play, The Sleeping Princess (Actress Leigh's first stage role since recovering from last spring's nervous breakdown), and were photographed helping famed British Actress Helen Haye* (still going strong playing the Dowager Empress of Russia in Anastasia) blow out the candles at her 79th birthday party...
...them last week: "Jews are permitted to work on the Sabbath if the security of the nation is threatened, or to save human life. But a Jew who puts in a trunk call from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv for a girl who wants to wish her boy friend happy birthday would be breaking the Sabbath...
Until his 40th birthday, Roy Herbert Thomson never owned a newspaper or hoped to. But once started, Thomson made up for lost time as few publishers have. After he bought a tiny paper in Northern Canada (with $3,000 he borrowed), the newspaper business looked so easy to Thomson that he confidently told a friend: "I'll be a millionaire some day." It was an accurate prediction. At 59, Publisher Thomson owns a string of 18 dailies all over Canada, close to one-fourth of Canada's English-language newspapers. Last year he pushed into...
...Weekly Scotsman (66,000). In taking control of the papers from old Scottish family ownership, Thomson gets a staff of 800, a 13-story Renaissance-style building that cost $2,400,000 in 1904, and the prestige of a pioneer publishing company. On the Scotsman's hundredth birthday the London Times conceded that the paper "is, so to speak, the Times of Scotland...
...Forest, famed "father of radio" (because of his 1906 invention of the three-element vacuum tube), and still active in his own laboratory, got a cake and a kiss from his third wife, Marie, at an 80th-birthday party in Hollywood...