Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This picture shows 22 leaders of World Communism gathered in Moscow's Bolshoi Theater for Joseph Stalin's 70th birthday. Between them they rule one-third of the human race. Most of them lived obscurely until tapped by the Kremlin's magic wand; thus they fulfill one prophetic line of the Internationale: "We have been naught, we shall be all." Left to right...
...probably the climax in a week of unrelenting semi-deification bestowed on Joseph Stalin during the celebrations of his 70th birthday. Throughout, a super-lifesized head of the celebrant grinned down from the heavens above the Kremlin upon his worshiping subjects. It was quite a nice trick, too; the head (and a discreet portion of bust, to suggest that it was still fixed to a body) was suspended from balloons and illuminated by huge spotlights...
...star of the show in Moscow, next to Stalin, was the fat, up-and-coming Georgy M. Malenkov, who made the principal birthday pronouncement. Western observers thought they detected in it the beginning of yet another of Russia's recurrent "peace offensives." Said Malenkov; "The Soviet Union considers the road of peaceful competition with capitalism as quite acceptable...
...Philadelphia Athletics' indestructible Connie Mack admitted at 87, for the first time, that he might conceivably be getting along in years: "I was reading in the paper the other day about the Sand birthday of Pudge Heffelfinger [Yale's all-America football star of 1889-91] . . . When the newspapers start printing news of Pudge Heffelfinger's 82nd birthday, I must be growing...