Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Screening Process. In Dayton, arrested for bigamy after being married to seven men since her 13th birthday, the last two marriages without benefit of divorce, 23-year-old Cynthia Corraditti offered an explanation: "It was hard to find a guy I could trust...
...weekly newspaper in the U.S.: Grit, published in Williamsport, Pa. (pop. 46,000), by a bald, conservative optimist named George Lamade. By being aggressively agreeable, plain-looking, plain-spoken Grit has built up a national circulation of nearly 900,000 in 48 states, this month will celebrate its 75th birthday as the paper "that rings the joy bells of life...
Concurrent with Eliot's visit, the House will hold a large-scale dinner in honor of the poet's coming 70th birthday, he revealed...
...Texas home at Uvalde, onetime Vice President John Nance ("Cactus Jack'') Garner turned 89, struck a pose of grizzled gumption for a birthday photo. His birthday program: a few "blows for liberty" (bourbon and branch water), no outing, many visitors...
...Conversation with Igor Stravinsky, filmed on the eve of the composer's 75th birthday, was an uninterrupted half hour of disarming intimacy and directness. Other conductors, he chuckled, get "furious" when he conducts his own works ("They consider it competition"), but "you earn more as a conductor" than as a composer. "Music," Stravinsky explained, "is an organization of tones-an act of the human mind." For him organization began at the age of eight. "I was playing a scale on the piano. I thought, if somebody invented the scale, I can change something in the scale and invent something...