Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very day Misters Bulganin and Khrushchev got this glowing reception, a message from Nehru arrived in Washington. It was Nehru's response to a message &f congratulations President Eisenhower had sent him on his 66th birthday, extolling India's "most successful experiment in democracy." In reply. Nehru thanked the President as "a great leader of a great nation, who has labored for peace and good will amongst nations and peoples." Nehru also seized one public occasion to tell Bulganin and Khrushchev that "We are in no camp and no military alliance." Such statements demonstrated that India...
...Devil Raises Hell. The opera, Lucas Foss's Griffelkin, with libretto by Alistair Reid, was offered by the NBC Opera Theater (Sun. 4 p.m.). Griffelkin is a little devil whose tenth-birthday gift is to be sent up to earth to raise a little hell. When he does a good deed, he is banished forever to earth, where he happily becomes, minus tail and horns, a normal small boy. What with a singing letter-box and dancing lions, Griffelkin was in the old operatic tradition. But the music did not sound much more inspired than the book. Most...
Then the Guatemalan party flew to Manhattan, where, based at the Waldorf-Astoria, the visiting President attended a special birthday Mass (he turned 41 last week) at St. Patrick's Cathedral, breakfasted with Francis Cardinal Spellman, got showered with ticker tape on lower Broadway, received honorary degrees from Columbia and Fordham, hustled through a round of conferences with such U.S. notables as Ralph Bunche, James A. Farley and United Fruit President Kenneth Redmond. At week's end the visitors were off on a U.S. tour that would include a friendly talk with Ike in Denver and the Vanderbilt...
...after his 42nd birthday, Bao Dai found himself overwhelmingly repudiated by the people he had sometimes meant to serve, but only fitfully did, while his torn country lived through the intersecting agonies of poverty, war, colonialism and Communism. When he got the news of his repudiation in Paris last week, Bao Dai sent word through his Chef de Cabinet: "His Majesty adopts silence...
...ceremonies marked the forthcoming publication of Wolfson two-volume study of the philosophy of the Church Fathers, from St. Paul to St. Augustine, and also coincided with his 68th birthday. The new books are the fifth and sixth volumes of a projected twelve volume study of philosophy from Plate to Spinoza...