Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mirror Sisters. It was soon clear that they were generally healthy. In January, on their mother's 20th birthday, they were taken home to the simple Townsend cottage in Tofield. Soon they went back to the Hospital for careful study, because their parents had agreed with Dr. Freebury that they should be separated. Said Elizabeth Townsend: "They would have no decent, proper lives the way they are. It is better to accept what risks there are in the operation...
...Harvard Corporation will celebrate its 300th birthday with a private dinner at 7 p.m. tonight in Dunster House. The President and Fellows of Harvard College, who form the Corporation, will mark the anniversary of the charter which established the University administration in its present...
...brief stops along the way he shook hands with local Democrats, accepted a batch of birthday cakes (on Monday he was 66) and traded good-natured sallies with trainside crowds. By the time he reached Galesburg, Ill., which had not been visited by a President since William McKinley stopped there in 1899, the President was drawing crowds and sniping away at the Republicans who opposed his foreign policy ("They can't see beyond their noses"). At Lincoln, Neb., in the heart of the farm belt, he got around to the first of nine formal speeches of the tour. Opposition...
...London, on his 67th birthday, Field Marshal Earl Wavell, who fought hard and well in North Africa against Field Marshal Erwin ("Desert Fox") Rommel, underwent a serious abdominal operation...
Last week, to celebrate its tenth birthday, Lucia Chase's Ballet Theatre put its name back up on the Manhattan marquee where it first appeared. When the curtain went up in Rockefeller Center's huge (3,000 seats) Center Theatre, fans saw Les Sylphides, which opened Ballet Theatre's first program. No one in the audience needed opera glasses to see how far Ballet Theatre had come in polish and precision in the interval. But the fans reserved their biggest applause for American ballets such as Agnes de Mille's Fall River Legend-just the kind...