Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bolts. Like all U.S. race drivers, Wilbur Shaw lived for the Memorial Day 500. "May 30 is Christmas, birthday and all the other nice days rolled into one," he wrote in his autobiography. Gentlemen, Start Your Engines, published last week (Coward-McCann; $5). "If you get into the Indianapolis 500, no matter what the outcome, you feel amply repaid for a year of work." For Shaw, the big race at the Speedway was worth more than a year-it was worth his whole life. From the day he first raced (and thoroughly wrecked) his own car-a homemade...
...Steel's Chairman Benjamin Fairless, it was something more than just another stockholders' meeting. It was the day before his 6sth birthday, and to the 1,050 Big Steel stockholders gathered in Hoboken, N.J.'s Union Club ("The only guaranteed annual audience I ever get"), he made a special announcement. After 42 years in the steel business, and three as boss of the industry's biggest company, the time had come to resign. Said Fairless: "There must always be room at the top of our management team for young men with young ideas and a fresh...
...locked up the family dog, he ambushed Smith in the garage and tried to beat him to death with a bottle. When Smith recovered, Wolf decided to use dynamite. Last week he went to the Smith home, supposedly to fix up a backyard swing and playground as a birthday present for Susan Smith, who was turning three. Wolf brought ten sticks of blasting dynamite and put them under the front seat of Smith's Buick, with wires hidden under the floor mat but not attached to the ignition, so there was no danger. Two nights later, while Smith...
...what is this place?" he would ask. "When do I get out of here?" In the last few years he went blind. The questions came less frequently, and the battered brain gave up groping toward the present. Last week, not long after Ad Wolgast's 67th birthday, his heart finally stopped fighting...
...factory gates of the Kohler Co. in Kohler, Wis. Out jumped scores of determined men who promptly began picketing the plant. Last week the same union pickets shuffled along the sidewalks at the plant gates, as the United Automobile Workers strike against Kohler of Kohler celebrated its first unhappy birthday. It is one of the longest-lasting major strikes...