Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Odyssey (Sun. 4 p.m., CBS). "The Baker Street Irregulars" celebrate Sherlock Holmes's birthday...
...Basil O'Connor's birthday conference, Vaccinventor Jonas E. Salk had fun with what he admitted was a flight of fancy: that the kind of vaccine he developed against polio might some day be used against other diseases, including ulcers. Many viruses, Salk noted, can lie dormant for years in the human body (a common example is the virus of the cold sore). Some may attack the nerves and do only slight initial damage. In later life these neglected infections may have serious aftereffects. For instance, said Salk, severe hypertension and gastric or duodenal ulcers can occur...
Deliberate Satire? Last week as Popo, 38, celebrated her first birthday as Abby Van Buren, she was the fastest rising lonelyheart columnist in the U.S. So quickly has her Dear Abby column caught on that it now appears in some 80 U.S. newspapers, from New York's garter-snapping Daily Mirror (circ. 842,023) to the sobersided Portland Oregonian (181,910), only a dozen fewer syndicate clients than carry sister Ann Landers, whose real name is Mrs. Jules ("Eppie") Lederer. This makes Abby the fourth-ranking U.S. lovelornist, after Dorothy Dix, Mary Haworth and Ann Landers...
...parody of other lovelornists. In fact, San Franciscans at first thought that Abby even concocted her own letters as a deliberate takeoff. One letter to the Chronicle that is still quoted with glee came from a girl who confessed: "My boy friend took me out on my 21st birthday and wanted to show me a very special good time. I usually don't go in much for drinking, but I had three martinis. During dinner we split a bottle of wine. After dinner we had two brandies. Did I do wrong?" Quipped Abby: "Probably...
...presented to the stockholders. The tentative lineup: six directors for management, six for Tomlinson's group (including Tomlinson himself), with the all-important 13th director still to be decided. ¶L. E. ("Doc") Briggs, gregarious treasurer of Ford Motor Co., will retire Jan. 31 on his 65th birthday after 42 years with the company, be replaced by publicity-shy J. Edward Lundy, former member of the Princeton economics faculty who joined Ford in 1946 after a World War II stint as financial analyst for the Air Force. Doc Briggs got his nickname by starting as a first...