Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Haven has reacted. Certainly no attempt to reform Yale to "proper" conservatism along Buckley lines has gotten rolling yet. Buckley blames much of the lamentable liberality of Yale on her alumni whom he feels should watch her. He timed the publication of the book with his university's 250th birthday, officially celebrated yesterday, when more than a usual amount of alumni would be in New Haven. But so far, still no revolution...
...jeered at as a "pretentious and high falutin' present for the esthete and the intellectual snob." Last week, on its fifth anniversary, the robustly highbrow Third found the critical climate a good deal more cordial. Seated before a microphone in a BBC subbasement studio, Controller Harman Grisewood noted: "Birthday greetings do not usually take the form of congratulations at having survived. Yet. . . five years are long enough for the programme to have died a natural death if it were not wanted...
Last week, as Mills alumnae launched a $2,000,000 fund-raising campaign to celebrate Mills' 100th birthday, the college which started out as a young ladies' seminary back in the gold-rush days could count itself a senior dowager among U.S. women's colleges.* But under President Lynn White, it was acting more like a sprightly debutante than ever...
...keep up with his early-to-bed & early-to-rise routine. He became a good friend and golfing partner of Commissioner Landis; in 1934 he was chosen head of the National League Service Bureau, which compiles the league's statistics. Within the year-a month before his 40th birthday - Frick was the National League president...
Appointed Rounds. In Burlington, N.C., Mailman Paul Simpson celebrated his 47th birthday on his day off by running 52 miles across country...