Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...55th birthday in London, Britain's Prince Henry William Frederick Albert, an air chief marshal of the R.A.F., an honorary captain in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, but more recognizable as the Duke of Gloucester, hied himself to Buckingham Palace to pick up a present from a favorite niece Queen Elizabeth II. The gift: the rank and baton of a British Army field marshal...
...Elizabeth Tarpey was still waiting. When she read about the new Teresians, she decided that perhaps she had waited long enough. She entered as a postulant in December 1919, just before her 27th birthday. At first she had executive jobs at home, then she was appointed regional superior in the Philippines. In 1931 she was elected vicaress (second in command), and in 1935 she spent a year traveling as Mother Mary Joseph's deputy through Asia and the U.S. This world wide experience was helpful when she became Mother General herself, and had to direct the liquidation...
Counsel for Mother Jones. Davis was born in 1873 in Clarksburg, W. Va., on April 13, the birthday of Thomas Jefferson, and he became one of his country's staunchest advocates of the democracy of Jefferson. As a West Virginia attorney Davis once joined Socialist Eugene V. Debs in defending the United Mine Workers' firebrand organizer, Octogenarian "Mother" Mary Jones, on charges of inciting a riot in a coal strike...
...attorney for the state of South Carolina, he defended segregation in the schools of the South (TIME, Dec. 21, 1953). Last year he came to the aid of J. Robert Oppenheimer (TIME, June 14). He lost both cases. A year ago, on the eve of his 81st birthday, Lawyer Davis complained that he was getting old: "Most of the crowd I worked with are gone." Last week in Charleston, S.C., John W. Davis lost a bout with pneumonia, and rejoined the old crowd.* It was just three weeks before his (and Thomas Jefferson's) birthday...
...Seoul, some 50,000 Koreans jammed into the city's stadium to help doughty President Syngman Rhee celebrate his 80th birthday. On hand were General Maxwell D. Taylor, slated to become U.S. (and U.N.) supreme commander in the Far East this week, and Rhee's old friend, retired General James A. Van Fleet, who hailed Rhee as "the king of fighters . . . Tiger of Korea." Van Fleet told the Koreans that, as Eighth Army commander, he had submitted three battle plans to his superiors in 1953. Any one of the plans, said he, would have ensured victory...