Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...75th birthday celebration, Poet-Author Carl Sandburg (see BOOKS) told a New York Times writer why it was that, in 1899, he flunked out as a West Point cadet: "It was arithmetic and grammar. Those verbs again. They are terrible things. Nouns are definite, the names of persons or things, but verbs cause all the trouble in the world. All lawsuits are about something coming between two nouns-those verbs...
Equally colorful was the CRIMSON'S 70th birthday in 1943, and the President of the United States took time out to write, "As an old CRIMSON man I am sure that. . .I voice the sentiments of all that company of happy men when I say that none of them would exchange his CRIMSON training for any other experience or association in his college days...
...home in Washington, General Peyton C. March, World War I Army Chief of Staff and the only surviving four-star officer of that war, celebrated a quiet 88th birthday. Said he: "I'm not seeing anyone, and I'm issuing no statement...
After all, a man of my age should celebrate by doing nothing." In Fort Myers, Fla., baseball's venerable Connie Mack checked off birthday No. 90 with a sideline tip: "There's not a worry in the world worth worrying about. That helped me live longer than anything else I know." In Tokyo, Crown Prince Akihito marked his igth birthday with a family dinner and a diplomatic reception. In preparation for his first trip abroad-the coronation in London next June-the prince is passing up his usual winter skiing vacation to concentrate on his studies: European political...
...cold-war skirmish was fought last week on the German television front. The Communists got their East zone transmitter on the air first, just in time for a heavyhanded salute to Stalin's birthday, featuring such numbing fare as a film called Young Constructors of Socialism and a forum show with the jawbreaking title Tribune for German Patriots in the Fight Against the Enslavery and War Policy of the American West German Monopoly Masters. Trumpeted a Red spokesman: "East zone TV will be a great educational force untainted by the frivolous bourgeois influence of the West...