Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Dr. Kaplan, a courtly, white-goateed scholar with almost half a century in the rabbinate behind him, walked into the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria. Fifteen hundred guests had gathered for the first in a series of testimonial dinners celebrating his 70th birthday (June n). He heard congratulatory messages from Jewish leaders, including Chaim Weizmann, Herbert Lehman and President Louis Finkelstein of Jewish Theological Seminary. They and most American Jews know Dr. Kaplan for his longtime leadership of the Reconstructionist movement-a broad effort to heal the theological divisions in U.S. Judaism...
Protected by flawless fielding, Crusader right-hander Jim O'Neill effectively scattered six hits, including two doubles and a triple, and three walks over eight innings to give Coach Jack Barry a birthday shutout over his former Philadelphia teammate, Stuffy McInnis...
Only 19 months before, the colonel had proudly installed Bazy in her new job, underscoring the fact that she was the heir apparent to the McCormick publishing empire. "Tradition is an important thing . . ." Bertie said on his 65th birthday in 1947. "When, 15 or 20 years from now, I am no longer here, Ruth Elizabeth-Bazy -will be carrying...
...month. Last month the club, run by Frank McNamara, a 35-year-old credit specialist, handled the checks for more than $500,000 worth of members' restaurant and hotel bills from 330 U.S. establishments. Last week, as the Diners' Club got ready to celebrate its first birthday, it enlarged its service. Club members, who can already charge food, drink, rented cars and hotel rooms, can now put flowers...
...disturbed. In Hollywood, the whole show was as formalized as a high-school commencement. The main actors of Academy Award night were gathered in a smoky nightclub on Manhattan's West 52nd Street. There, Nominee José Ferrer was host at a party to celebrate the 52nd birthday of Nominee Gloria Swanson, his co-star in Broadway's Twentieth Century. Host Ferrer never got a chance to deliver the speech he had planned in honor of Actress Swanson's Oscar. After the news came over the radio from Hollywood that Judy Holliday had won the best-actress...