Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the CRIMSON'S 77th birthday. On January 24, 1873, ten editors twirled their moustaches, totalled up their plus-fours, and greeted the first edition of the MAGENTA. The name did not quite fit at the top of the page, so they persuaded of the College to change its colors to crimson...
Most of the men, joking and waiting for supper, were standing around below decks. Second Class Engine Room Artificer Ed Buckingham was getting congratulations on his 32nd birthday. Navy Yard Surveyor Roy Stevens had just finished shaving. Leading Seaman Fred Henley got his supper early so that he could report for duty. He started up the conning tower to join the Truculent's bearded commander, Lieut. Cyril Philip Bowers (30), and three other young officers. Later Henley described what happened...
Last night the track team gave coach Jaakko Mikkola a surprise birthday party at his house...
...Marin's letters a constant delight to his friends. Edited and put between covers, a selection of the letters and of his rather less coherent essays was on sale in U.S. bookstores last week (The Selected Writings of John Marin; Pellegrini & Cudahy; $7.50). Its publication marked the 79th birthday of one of the U.S.'s foremost artists, who has again & again been called "great...
Leathery, wire-haired Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden ran for governor of Florida and got married for the third time at 79, celebrated his 81st birthday last August by making his first parachute jump. Last week Publisher Macfadden flickered dimly in the publishing sky in which he once flared like a comet...