Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...climbed aboard United Air Lines flight 709 in New York last week to fly to Los Angeles and celebrate his 75th birthday. His famous stride had become a careful step, his hands looked transparent and his skin like parchment, but his back was West Point-straight, his manner commanding. When the stewardess saw that General Douglas MacArthur had not fastened his safety belt (he never does), she made the best of it and said nothing...
...that includes a statue of the general and a pool containing replicas of the islands he conquered in the Pacific. He was pleased and genial, but when a local architect rushed up to him at the dedication ceremonies and burbled, "I'm going to wish you a happy birthday as I want you to wish me one, because today is my birthday, too." General MacArthur looked at him, through him and away from...
...With permanent breathing and feeding tubes in his throat and stomach, he stayed cheerful, watched TV via an overhead mirror. Last week a wall-panel fuse in the hospital blew out, stopped the life-preserving iron lung. Alone in his private room, Henry Ciesla died, on his forty-fourth birthday, unable because of his paralysis...
...Happy Birthday. As snow sifted down and rain froze into sleet, no driver seemed to enjoy the cross-country competition more than Sheila. Just as she left Munich, word was passed that it was her 33rd birthday, and for the next two days Rally officials celebrated. At the Hamburg control point, Germans rose to a man and broke into a gutteral version of "Happy Birthday to You." On the Dutch border, smiling customs guards waved her steel-grey Sunbeam across the frontier. All along the way well-wishers gave her flowers, which she tossed into the rear seat where...
...year. Says he: "I want to have time for things that are important to me." Among the most important: jazz. This spring he plans to form his own jazz combo in Vienna. Also, Gulda thinks that it may be time to relax a bit. "With my 25th birthday coming up," he says solemnly, "I consider my youth finished." Perhaps the next time he plays in Carnegie Hall he will even play more slowly...