Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When in trouble, says an old Army maxim, do something-anything. In the clutch of the steel crisis last week, on the eve of his 68th birthday (May 8), ex-Artilleryman Harry Truman busied himself doing something...
...commander of Patrol Wing Two at Ford Island broadcast: "Air raid, Pearl Harbor! This is no drill," the war between the U.S. and Japan came to an official end. Japan promptly started a nine-day holiday to commemorate 1) the Peace Treaty, 2) Emperor Hirohito's 51st birthday, 3) May Day, 4) Japan's Memorial Day, 5) Japan's war-renouncing Constitution, 6) Children's Day. Headlined Tokyo's Nippon Times: LITTLE SIGNS OF JOY; PEOPLE IN QUANDARY...
...with tuberculosis of the spine and another ailment that his doctors described only as "rare and dangerous." In 1950 he retired to a sanitarium in the Swiss Alps. There, racked with pain, he waited, cool as always, for death. Last week, three days before Stafford Cripps's 63rd birthday, it came...
Died. Sir Stafford ("Old Austerity") Cripps, Britain's vegetarian, Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer (until October 1950) under former Prime Minister Clement Attlee; after long illness, three days before his 63rd birthday; in Zurich, Switzerland (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Last week in Munich, Painter Dix's stubbornness was rewarded by a big retrospective show in honor of his 60th birthday. While the Nazis and World War II had not stopped his painting, they had radically changed its style. Under "permanent observation" by the Nazis, Dix dropped his brutal social criticism and took to noncommittal expressionist landscapes filled with bright colors and bold patterns. He found life on Lake Constance "idyllic, probably too idyllic...