Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prince Ali had gone up north to hunt, and to look in on his plantations near the Soviet frontier, but planned to return to Teheran for the Shah's 35th birthday celebration. When he arrived at the airstrip at Gurgan, the pilot of his single-engined Piper pointed to the snow-capped mountains wreathed in ominous clouds, but the prince was anxious to start home. Before he took off, Ali did an act of kindness: into his plane he loaded an old peasant ill with tuberculosis, who needed immediate hospitalization. Then the plane, carrying prince and peasant, headed...
...jovial President Eisenhower last week sliced into a 3-ft. birthday cake modeled after the White House (with a putting green on the roof) and said he was happy to be 64. Explained Ike to a Denver birthday-luncheon: "Considering the year I was born, if I weren't 64 I'd be dead...
Help from the G.O.P. After the ten-minute talk, the President drove through rainy, almost deserted streets to deliver his farm speech to a lively audience of 16,000, plus a nationwide radio hookup. Boys and girls from Indiana 4-H Clubs gave him a four-tiered birthday cake, and he joined the crowd in singing Back Home Again in Indiana...
...Manhattan powwow sponsored by United Nations boosters to celebrate Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's 70th birthday, Andrei Vishinsky, Russia's chief delegate to the U.N., dropped in as a surprise guest. When the festivities ended, Vishinsky warmly shook hands with one of his tablemates, a self-confessed Republican. "You are a very nice young man," glowed Communist Vishinsky. "If I were an American, I would be a Republican...
...messenger boy in 1906. He was made vice president in 1931, executive vice president in 1940, and from 1944 on also supervised the bank's major loans (e.g., to Henry Kaiser, Israel, etc.). Given the chairmanship as an honorarium, he will retire on his 6 5th birthday next May. ¶ Carleton Putnam, 52, announced that he would step down as board chairman of Atlanta's Delta Air Lines, Inc. this week. A well-to-do Princeton graduate ('24), Putnam bought his own plane, became so enthusiastic about flying that he formed Chicago & Southern Air Lines...