Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Show . . . Then the President turned his attention to making a show of unconcerned business & pleasure as usual. At lunch time, he hustled six blocks downtown to the massive Department of Justice building to attend a celebration of Attorney General Howard McGrath's 47th birthday and 21st wedding anniversary. That night he kept a date with his old Secretary of Agriculture, New Mexico's Senator Clint Anderson, to play the piano at a private little party at the elegantly inconspicuous 1925 F Street Club...
Lowell House will present "The Relapse, or Virtue in Danger," by Sir John Vanbrugh, on Wednesday night, honoring President Lowell's birthday. Lowell's party and dance will begin at 8:30 p.m. tonight...
Finsterwolde (pop. 3,250) in northeastern Holland, hard by the German frontier, looks like any other scrubbed Dutch town; but it is not. Every year Finsterwolde sends a wire addressed to the Kremlin offering Joseph Stalin birthday congratulations. And Finsterwolde's town fathers have officially made known that should Soviet forces cross the Dutch border, the town would "welcome the Red troops with open arms...
...musketeer), Menaboni collected birds as a child. "When I flunked an exam at school," he recalls, "father would set them all free and I'd have to start collecting over again." He worked his way to the U.S. on a freighter, made a precarious living painting everything from birthday candles to murals until his bird pictures caught on twelve years ago. Now, at 55, he has more work than he can handle. Sure of his talent though he is, Menaboni swoops on praise as voraciously as the next artist. His favorite tribute was from a fellow painter who looked...
...emergency investiture. Traditionally, the Dalai Lama waits for his 18th birthday before formally assuming power. By staging the ceremony two years ahead of schedule, Lhasa's theocrats seemed to be preparing for the worst. They closed the regency of septuagenarian Takta Rimpoche, abbot of Tiger Rock Monastery. They bolstered the spiritual position of the Dalai Lama should he be forced to leave Lhasa for exile abroad and should the Communists try to install a rival on his throne...