Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believes that birthdays are for children, Physicist Albert Einstein seemed slightly startled when friends reminded him that he would turn 76 this week. Even more than birthdays, however, Dr. Einstein deplores birthday interviews. But he was duly goaded into a typical bit of self-depreciation. "The world is no longer interested in me," said he at his office in Princeton's brain-crammed Institute for Advanced Study. "I do not consider myself important any more. First, I was nobody, and then I became famous and people developed illusions of greatness about me that were untrue. Now I plan...
This season Liebman imported some of his top stars from abroad, notably Britain's Jean Carson and France's Jacques Tati and Jeanmaire. He hopes to get Imogene Coca back under his wing for a production of Happy Birthday, and is looking for a vehicle for Sid Caesar...
...doormen and band members. But any photographer who is sent to the scene is met at the door of the nightclub and turned away by a royal detective. Once a news photographer got a picture of six-year-old Prince Charles on his way to a cousin's birthday party. But when the photographer's editor called the palace to get some caption material, he was brusquely informed that the color of the coat was a "private matter...
Ambassador to Britain Winthrop Aldrich, a conservative banker turned progressive diplomat, decided to have a Washington's Birthday party for the housewarming of his official mansion, a cavernous Regency Park residence given to the U.S. Government by Five & Dime Heiress Barbara Mutton in 1946. Although Aldrich wanted everything "informal," invitations to 330 guests called for "evening dress and decorations," a sure tipoff that royalty would be present. With some 50 Scotland Yardmen and bobbies barring gate-crashers (including all newsmen), the regal parade was led by Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip and Queen Mother Elizabeth. After Aldrich whirled...
Ever since, V-J day has been Aug. 14 to the rest of the world but to his friends among the Igorots it is Sept. 14-Donald Blackburn's birthday...