Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic Senator Theodore Francis Green, rose as usual at 7 a.m., breakfasted on an apple, an orange, wheat flakes, toast, and a glass of milk. Then, in his ancestral mansion in Providence, he turned his attention to all sorts of packages, greeting cards, phone calls. It was his 92nd birthday. Bachelor Green, an infantry officer in the Spanish-American War, was pleasantly bored with his celebrity as the oldest man ever to serve in the U.S. Congress. But he bridled at an interviewer's query as to whether he plans to run for re-election next year. Gazing...
...dressed up in a circle pin, a pearl necklace, an orchid and an ageless smile, Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses handled a silver knife with the art that comes from practice. She was cutting birthday cake...
...that Leonard Bernstein was not likely to forget-nor would his audience. In Moscow last week, for the fourth of 18 Russian concerts scheduled for the world-touring New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Lenny celebrated his 41st birthday by shattering Soviet musical tradition, and except for a little official sniping, came away unscathed, a hero...
...Piano and Wind Instruments, and still a third for the composer's Le Sacre du Printemps, explaining that it touched off a "musical revolution five years before your own revolution-music has never been the same since." Each time the audience cheered its approval, and later, at a birthday party given by Russian officials, Lenny was showered with congratulations for his triumph...
Pressed by a newsman for a quick verbal self-portrait on the eve of his 89th birthday, Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch put on a mischievous, mysterious expression, nutshelled: "I do everything I used to do-but not quite as much...