Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...celebrate the birthday, the South African Broadcasting Corp. had planned a feature broadcast. The government angrily protested, and the program was canceled. Johannesburg offered Smuts the freedom of the city; one of Malan's leaders, J. G. Strydom, called a special meeting to object that Smuts had done nothing for South Africa and had worked only for the British empire. Smuts, who has spent half a century working for peace, justice and world understanding, said nothing...
Johannesburg gave Strydom his answer. Despite the chill winter weather, 50,000 shouting citizens, white and black, crowded round the city hall to cheer for Smuts. The old man stood slim, erect and bareheaded on a dais shaped like a birthday cake, and told South Africans: "Cast fear out of your hearts and put an end to bickering and quarreling. Concentrate on the great things that are on the doorstep...
Recovered from a bout with sciatica, which she regarded as a "bore," Queen Mary was up at 8:30 as usual on her 83rd birthday, read many of the thousands of letters and telegrams that poured into Marlborough House, London. At noon she rode in her green Daimler to Buckingham Palace for the customary birthday luncheon. All in all, it was a busy week. A few days before her birthday, she showed up at the Chelsea Flower Show at Royal Hospital, was helped across a muddy stream (see cut). The day after her busy birthday, she took in the Derby...
...promptly turned out a verse on the moral lessons to be learned in carriage accidents ("0 trials and troubles and losses in life!/ What are ye but simples to strengthen my soul?"). Asked to compose an eclogue to be recited by the Queen's daughters at her birthday party, Tupper sent the lines by return mail. His practice of sending poems to the newspapers was not mere exhibitionism. It was also public relations for his magnum opus, Proverbial Philosophy, a galaxy of truisms dressed up in a slipslop rhythmic prose...
...first time in 13 years, tiny, greying Choreographer Ninette de Valois, 51, danced before an audience (as the parlormaid in A Wedding Bouquet), to celebrate the 21st birthday of the Sadler's Wells Ballet which she founded. She took more than a dozen curtain calls at the end. Later, she was presented with a silver tray by Princess Margaret...