Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article on Nelson Rockefeller [Oct. 6] prompts this letter. When I was a little girl in Cleveland, my mother was calling on Grandpa John D.'s neighbor and, over the back fence, told John D. that my birthday was the same day as his, July 8. With no hesitation, he reached in his pocket and handed my mother the enclosed dime. I now want to return it to Grandson Nelson for his campaign fund, and wish him luck and success...
What made this scene unique among thousands of similar spectacles on U.S. playing fields was the identity of the kicking coach: Amos Alonzo Stagg, who celebrated his 96th birthday on Aug. 16. It was extraordinary enough that Stagg, who was born seven years before college football (Princeton-Rutgers, 1869), had lived so long and punctuated his life with a series of brilliant firsts in several sports. But more remarkable yet was the state of his mind and body after almost a century of enormous activity...
...life-giving powers of devotion to piety and duty (though there were longer-lived Popes) than Pius XII. Though he had been severely ill several times, and was eventually found to have a hiatus hernia (TIME, Dec. 27, 1954), he functioned with full efficiency well beyond his 80th birthday and until the strokes that swiftly killed him (see RELIGION...
...watched her go, he felt that "an iron hand was squeezing him inside" and that he would die of misery. ("He had not yet learned that no one ever dies of misery.") The plan was for Tanguy to follow his mother a few days later, on his ninth birthday, but the Nazis closed the escape hatch...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14--President Eisenhower, in a peppery mood at his 68th birthday party, urged Republicans today to come out slugging against the Democrats in the elections campaign...