Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the dumps at news that what might well have been the biggest and best party of all was canceled. It was to have been given by irrepressible Norah Docker, the blonde and lively wife of Daimler's Board Chairman Sir Bernard Docker, in honor of her 50th birthday...
...campaign fund. When the third ballot started, Wiley did not even wait for the result. With tears in his eyes, he and his British-born wife made their way quietly through the crowd and out the door. For Alex Wiley, it was a bitter pill -administered on his 72nd birthday...
Kienbusch's artistic urgings began early. "When I was a kid and blew out the candles on the birthday cake." he recalls, "I always made the same wish-to be an artist." Achieving that wish turned out to be a long haul that took him to the Art Students' League, abroad for a year's painting in Paris, and home again to work with Muralist Anton Refregier and Abstractionist Stuart Davis. Then a summer on Deer Island, off the Maine coast, gave Kienbusch his clue to what he liked to paint best: "The world of many things...
...Birthday of the Infanta, by Ron Nelson, 29, graduate student at Rochester's Eastman School of Music, and composer of promotional-film sound tracks. Following Oscar Wilde's story, a dwarf falls in love with a Spanish princess and persuades her to set up her throne in the forest. The scheme is frustrated by the captain of the guard, and tragedy closes in. The music reminded listeners of both Puccini and Menotti, and suggested that Birthday will have many happy returns...
...sometime pacifist who wrote some of France's finest war poetry, a good family man who grew into an aged satyr, a penny pincher who showered generosity on many. He was a shaker of culture and an object of curiosity and adulation rarely equaled. On his 79th birthday 600,000 Parisians paraded past his home. When he died, just 71 years ago this month, he was laid in state beneath the Arc de Triomphe, then escorted by 2,000,000 of his countrymen to his tomb in the Pantheon...