Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate took exactly four minutes to confirm Robert Abercrombie Lovett as the new Secretary of Defense; it happened to be on Lovett's 56th birthday. There was only one hitch. North Dakota's isolated Bill Langer wanted to know whether this was the Robert Morss Lovett who had been investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1943.* Assured that it was not, Langer made the vote unanimous...
...boat drew away. While her pilot boat almost lost her in the fog, Florence's father took one pill after another to ease the strain on his own weak heart. Finally, after 16 hr., 22 min., he got the best tonic of all (and a 69th birthday present): Florence felt the sand of France beneath her, dragged herself ashore at Sangatte, three miles south of Calais...
...Pacific Southwest tennis championships; in Los Angeles. Playing on the Los Angeles Tennis Club's cement courts, Sedgman swept to his victory in the final over Cincinnati's Tony Trabert, 6-3, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, while Maureen, a day short of her 17th birthday, defeated Santa Monica's Beverly Baker, 9-7, 6-4. ¶Professional Golfer Betsy Rawls, 23, of Austin, Texas, the Women's National Open, with a 72-hole total score of 293; in Atlanta. In third place with a 299: veteran Professional Mildred ("Babe") Zaharias, who only last month...
While the American Chemical Society was getting ready for its 75th birthday party in Manhattan next week, some of its members were already thinking about the 75 years ahead. For the diamond jubilee issue of Chemical and Engineering News, they described a brave new universe where every home will have two-way wireless, space ships will circle the moon (see below) and the scientists will inherit the earth. Among the wonders the citizen of 2026 will take for granted...
...Time. In Port Washington, Wis., Mrs. Fred Schuknecht received a birthday card from a friend who had written on the envelope: "Please hurry, postman. I'm late already," under which was wearily scrawled: "Can't. I'm tired...