Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, on Abraham Lincoln's birthday, Sergeant Cornelius H. Charlton was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. "The death of my boy," said his father, "distinctly makes a liar out of Paul Robeson and others who have said the Negro will not fight for our country. Those. . . who have felt that the Negro is a second-class citizen must know in their hearts that...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Feb. 18--Hollywood funnyman Bob Hope will be the feature attraction at the Harvard Club of Southern California's Washington's Birthday Dinner, on February...
...21st birthday - it was only five years ago-a British Princess faced a microphone in South Africa and in a clear girlish voice made a solemn promise to her father's subjects all over the world. " declare before you all," she said, "that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong...
...three years there comes a concert so thrilling in content, so brilliant in execution, that it makes the entire season memorable. Such a concert was heard by the large audience in Sanders Theatre Friday night. The occasion: a premature salute to Ralph Vaughan Williams for his eightieth birthday (he won't be eighty until October...
...flower-decked hotel bedroom in Nice, Colette, aging French novelist and short story writer (Gigi, La Maison de Claudine), sipped champagne, read some Maupassant and made a 79th birthday decision: "It isn't particularly funny to learn all at once upon waking up that one is entering one's 80s. But tomorrow I will forget and give myself another age, 58 for instance, because I have remained so much a woman. At 58 one still pleases ... at 58 one has so much hope...