Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before shooting began. As Walk's tells it, he is entitled to a profit for taking a chance on a newcomer; furthermore, he says, Shirley was amply repaid, got bonuses and was treated royally. "I went up to her on the set during the week of her birthday," Wallis recalls, "and asked: 'If I was going to give you a birthday present, what would you like?' Shirley said, kiddingly, 'An MG.' " Next day Wallis handed her the keys. "She broke up and cried and laughed. And that cost more than nickels and dimes...
...week's end junketing Sukarno reached Japan in his chartered Pan Am plane, celebrating his 58th birthday aboard. Before returning to his racked island nation, he intends to visit North Viet Nam and Cambodia. A spokesman for Sukarno said airily: "If it were a critical situation in Indonesia, the President would have stayed home...
...intent frown, he fiddled his way through the Sibelius Concerto in D Minor, Bartok's Rumanian Dances, and Darius Milhaud's Royal Concerto. Two days later, the world's most prestigious violin prize went to U.S.-trained Jaime Laredo, still a week short of his 18th birthday and the youngest winner in the contest's history. (Runner-up of last week's contest: Russia's Albert Markov...
Outside the sports world, Dean Hanford called for course reduction and fewer hour exams, the College held its first transoceanic radio debate with Oxford, and President Lowell celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday. Soon to resign, Lowell could look back with pride on his record of educational innovation and reconstruction. Tutorials began to slowly increase contact of faculty member with student; the General Exams emphasized a carefully planned academic program of distribution and concentration; the House system helped to mold the "Old Harvard" into new patterns more suitable for the times; and the extensive building drive provided the room for growth...
...grew up, Britain's peppery Lord Beaverbrook put up at Fredericton's Lord Beaverbrook Hotel, spent hours right next door in the city's Lord Beaverbrook Art Gallery, one of his many gifts to the province. Facing the local press on the eve of his 80th birthday, Journalist Beaverbrook parried questions with professional skill, along the way paid bittersweet tribute to a transatlantic competitor. Asked by a newshound what he regards as his greatest achievement in publishing, His Lordship shot back: "Reading the 145 pages of the New York Times Sunday edition in one sitting, through...