Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enthusiasm and gratitude, Britain seemed ready last week to deify Sir Winston Churchill on the spot as he made his stately progress toward his 80th birthday. Birthday gifts poured into 10 Downing Street; his birthday fund passed $300,000 and was still rising. Debrett's editor rummaged through Churchill's female ancestry and announced happily that Churchill was of blood royal, through Henry VII, and therefore a descendant of Charlemagne, Alfred the Great and William the Conqueror. Parliament itself bustled over preparations for the unprecedented ceremony this week in the great hall which King William Rufus began...
...Moscow. There he was cremated and the urn containing his ashes was exhibited in the Hall of Columns. Later, with great pomp and panoply, it was carried to Red Square and placed in a niche in the Kremlin wall. He had died wanting 18 days to his 71st birthday, but no one, neither his U.N. colleagues nor his fellow careerists in Moscow, in eulogizing him, suggested that he had died too soon...
...College's leading authorities on England last night gave Winston Churchill, the last living member of "The Big Three," their highest praise on the occasion of his 80th birthday today...
David E. Owen, professor of History, suggested that Churchill's birthday "ought to be regarded as a day of special observance throughout the free world. When measured alongside him," said Owen, "other latter day politicians seem tiny. No other leader of modern times has so captured the imagination of his fellow countrymen or could so draw their latent energies...
...Finest Hour (Sun. 7 p.m., NBC). Tribute to Sir Winston Churchill in honor of his 80th birthday...