Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...approached his 83rd birthday this year, Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, who loves carrots and publicity, was overcome by a recurring conviction: he was still a boy because he had quaffed quantities of buttermilk and vegetable juice all his life. To prove his youth, Macfadden decided to parachute out of an airplane over Niagara Falls. When horrified U.S. and Canadian officials forbade the stunt, Macfadden let it be known that he would jump out over New York's George Washington Bridge. The cops threatened to arrest...
...family and a few close friends gathered in Balmoral Castle, Scotland, to help Princess Margaret celebrate her 21st birthday. The highlight of her coming-of-age party: the cutting of the royal cake, a 30-pound, twelve-sided baker's delight, each side decorated with a sign of the zodiac, the main panel showing Leo, the Princess' own sign, and the top iced with the pattern of her personal standard and planted with 21 silver candles, silver roses and Scotch thistles. Among the guests: Billy Wallace, Lord Ogilvy and the Earl of Dalkeith-her three favorite suitors...
...honor Hometown Rhymester Edgar A. Guest on his 70th birthday, Detroit proclaimed an official "Eddie Guest Day" with a band concert and engraved scroll, but banned other gifts. Reason: the committee was afraid donors would take up all the program time making speeches...
Muscleman Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, who made a parachute jump on his 81st birthday, changed his mind about parachuting into the Niagara River to celebrate his 83rd, decided instead to mark the event at home in Dansville, N.Y. by simply eating a whole wheat cake and announcing a prize of $1,000 for the best three-act play about his life...
...81st birthday in Manhattan, Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch posed beside a mammoth birthday cake ("I can't tell you who sent it. The same person who has sent it to me for 50 years would be very annoyed with me if I told who it was") and gave some advice for the troubled times: "Don't bellyache, Get out and work-this country will pull through...