Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another former laboratory worker, Joseph Ackermann, said the director ordered a "very special present" for Koch's birthday, a lamp of human skin and bone. "The light was switched on by pressure against the little toe of one of the three human feet which formed the stand...
...Munich, police arrested Merchant Georg Brunner, 50, for illegally owning and trying to peddle a suitcase full of government-confiscated Adolf Hitler memorabilia including: several autographed copies of Mein Kampf, an initialed steel pocket watch, three engraved Hitler-head coins made in honor of his 50th birthday, his World War I army identity card, his 1933 nomination as Chancellor...
While Parliament considered boosting his pension 800% (to $6,926 a year), Composer Jean Sibelius celebrated a quiet 85th birthday at his home, Ainola, near Jarvenpaa, opened a few presents, including 500 cigars, saw a few visitors, including President Juho Paasikivi, who brought along a present: a solid gold medal weighing about a pound...
Wearing a sport jacket and horn-rimmed spectacles, and carrying a big package ("It's my old lady's birthday"), Larry bounced into the studio first. When "the old lady" showed up, her cued-in lyrics in hand, they went to work. Larry had had a bit of stock-company experience in the past year or two, but Mary wasn't too sure of his voice: "It hasn't settled enough for anyone to know what it is really like. But he can carry a tune . . ." After three hours of coaching, needling and playbacks, they finished...
...assaults on the earthbound sanity of his viewers. He restlessly roams the stage and studio audience, leaps from piano stool to microphone and back, urgently seizes and spurns his fellow actors, addresses furious asides to his network, his sponsor (Motorola) and other comics. He hymned his nose's birthday ("It was the first time in history that a nose outweighed the child!"); sang (with Stooge Candy Candido) an appealing duet called The Pussy Cat Song; displayed an entertaining low comedy that is as innocent as it is rare on TV-bending a tall girl backward in his arms, little...