Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, having done his duty, he went back to writing a speech for the 500th birthday of Leonardo da Vinci, on which he had already spent three weeks studying 20 volumes of material. Premier de Gasperi wanted his thoughts on Da Vinci to be expressed just right...
...Hogben is also famous in England as an extreme example of the peculiar professor, who forgets his own birthday and talks indistinctly, with his eyes shut tight. This sort of thing has attracted the attention of the bobbies. During a recent trial, when Hogben was acquitted of drunken driving, a friendly colleague testified: "There is no other man I know more likely to be mistaken for a drunken man when he is quite sober...
Died. Fala, black Scottie, constant White-House companion of Franklin D. Roosevelt; two days short of his twelfth birthday; in Hyde Park, N. Y. In 1944, the dog became a campaign issue when Republicans charged that a destroyer had been sent to the Aleutian Islands to pick him up after a presidential trip. In the famed Teamsters' Union speech, his master replied: "Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don't resent attacks...
...Princeton. N.J., Albert Einstein ignored his 73rd birthday. Said his secretary: "He doesn't care about his birthday at all. He won't even have a birthday cake...
...musty old basilica of St.-Denis, burial place of French kings, had seldom seen such polite excitement. As part of Paris' celebration of its 2,000th birthday last year, diplomats, dignitaries and celebrities turned out to hear a performance of old French music which was also being broadcast across Europe and to the U.S. Highlight: a recently discovered coronation mass billed as the work of 17th century Composer Etienne Moulini...