Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Demotri Kessel, one of Life's top photographers, made a special trip with his staff last fall to Istanbul, Turkey in order to photograph the mosaics. They decorate the interior of the Haghia Sophia mosque, which will celebrate its 1,413 birthday this Christmas. Selected pictures from over 1000 shots should appear in a full-color spread much like Life's article last Christmas on the Sistine Chapel in Rome...
Napoleon-in-his-birthday-suit was sculptured by Antonio Canova in 1811; since 1859 he has greeted the startled visitors who enter the large courtyard of the Palazzo di Brera in Milan...
...Nancy." The end that came so peacefully and quietly to Bernard Shaw, in bed at Ayot St. Lawrence last week, was not unwelcome. "I am longing for my eternal rest," Shaw told a friend just after his 94th birthday. The broken thighbone that sent Shaw into the hospital when he slipped and fell in his garden last September had shown signs of knitting better than his doctors dared hope, but the Shavian spirit was broken for good. When Shaw guessed that he might live only to become a bedridden invalid, he lost interest in the business...
...American Coffee Corp. to buy direct from the growers in Brazil and Colombia. Still trying to eliminate middlemen, they set up their own Atlantic Commission Co. to buy the stores' produce. They started their own bakeries, candy and pastry shops to turn out everything from a $1 birthday cake to a $500 frosted reproduction of the Staten Island Ferry slip. They started new "combination" stores handling meats as well as groceries...
Last week Albania's eager-beaver Communist Party put itself at the head of the next anniversary parade. It sent a message of "gratitude and boundless love to Stalin on the occasion of his 71st birthday...