Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home county of York, a Republican couple named their newborn baby George Leader in his honor. (Leader, who cut his own 37th birthday cake the day before, wired the infant: DEAR GEORGE: PLEASE TELL YOUR PARENTS SOME DAY HOW HONORED AND PLEASED I FELT...
...first public act in dealing with that Congress, the President made a personal gesture of bipartisanship. Said he: "The district where I was born has been represented in this Congress for more years than he cares to remember, I suppose, by our distinguished Speaker. Today is his birthday, and I want to join with the rest of you in felicitating him and wishing him many happy returns of the day." Then the President turned and grasped the hand of old (73) Sam Rayburn of Bonham, Texas (25 miles from Eisenhower's birthplace at Denison). Speaker Rayburn beamed while cheers...
...dark suits slipped out, 9-mm. German-made Schmeisser burp-guns cradled in their arms, and crawled behind a hedge that ran only 20 feet from where the President sat. At 7:20 a string of firecrackers exploded somewhere in the neighborhood. "They are celebrating a birthday over there," a member of the Remón party remarked. Two minutes later bursts of machine-gun fire sprayed the box. Two men died instantly; Remón's heavy frame slumped to the floor, blood darkening his pleated white sport shirt. "That was no firecracker," he gasped...
...East Germany, doddering Premier Wilhelm Pieck was roused early one morning by the reedy wailing of shawms (an obsolete sort of oboe) serenading him with a waltz beneath his bedroom window. The occasion: Puppet Pieck's 79th birthday, later marked by much handshaking with his fellow Communists, plus (to show his love for the proletariat and also for traditional good luck) a sooty clasp from a chimney sweep. Two days later, in Germany's free Western zone, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer also turned 79. After a public reception at the Bonn Chancellery, Widower Adenauer went to his modest home...
...issues weighed last week would be formally laid before the Congress in the President's State of the Union message on Jan. 6, a date that Sam Rayburn, when Ike suggested it at the bipartisan conference, heartily seconded: Jan. 6 will be Mr. Sam's 73rd birthday. "Swell," said the President; maybe there would be a present for Sam in the speech...