Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outdoor drama and music festivals, from the elaborate medieval pageantry at little Landshut in late June to September's Festival of Berlin, for which orchestras, ballet troupes and theater companies will assemble from all over Europe. Salzburg's festival in honor of Mozart's 200th birthday will be one of the musical highlights of the year. Prices are moderate: from $3 to $5 for a good dinner, $10 for a first-class double room with bath...
Choral Tribute (Thurs. 5:15 p.m., NBC). Honoring Booker T. Washington's 100th birthday anniversary...
...club members, who had originally set their party for Nov. 14, Mrs. Eisenhower's birthday, and had to postpone it when Ike was taken ill, gathered in the Willard Hotel, where they applauded warmly as their guest was led in to the strains of the Marine Band. The diners sat down to broiled chicken, vanilla parfait, "Mamie cakes" and small talk: Mrs. Eisenhower reported granddaughter Barbara Anne down with mumps and laughed heartily when Mrs. Kenneth H. Tuggle revealed that her daughter Sarah had written to the President to report that "I go to the same school with David...
...camera switched to the guest of honor and several times discovered her dabbing at her eyes. There was much eye-dabbing in the Willard ballroom; the ladies understood when Mrs. Eisenhower rose at party's end to tell them: "This has been one of the most wonderful birthday parties I've ever had, but it certainly did tear my heartstrings." She said that she hoped her husband had seen it on TV. Ike, between conferences, had seen a part...
...another letter to the editor, Ring Lardner Jr.. one of the "Hollywood Ten." wondered whether the kind of one-man worship so deplorable in Stalin's case might not have influenced the "rather maudlin testaments to William Z. Foster on his recent birthday." In the same sentence, evidently feeling no inconsistency. Lardner described U.S. Communist Boss Foster as "America's outstanding working-class leader...