Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...70th birthday, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who relaxed during the past twelve months by scurrying some 50,000 miles to boom the United Nations, sat back and reflected on her bustling life...
...during her twelve years as the nation's First Lady, Mrs. Roosevelt confided that her greatest pleasure now comes from "work . . . and [having] no people dependent on me to take my time." She lives alone in an apartment on Manhattan's East 62nd Street, celebrated her birthday at Hyde Park with all of her children present except Elliott (expected later). For exercise she no longer rides horseback through the Putnam County woods, but often strolls over the countryside with her two Scotties, one a grandson of F.D.R.'s famed Fala. Looking ahead, Eleanor Roosevelt, who has already...
When Marilyn Monroe married Joe DiMaggio nine months ago, many newspapers went slightly gaga, and some even disregarded history and hailed it as the "Romance of the Century." The calendar girl who rose to fame "in a birthday suit," crooned the Los Angeles Herald & Express had found bliss with a man who achieved success "in a baseball suit." Last week U.S. dailies figured they had an even bigger story about Marilyn...
...President Johnson first began classes in Trinity Church's vestry room. Two weeks from today on October 31, the day Kind George 11 signed the charter, the last of three great convocations will be held on Morning side Heights. It will climax one of the most extensive--and praiseworthy-- birthday celebrations ever undertaken by an American university...
...group of faculty members, alumni, trustees, and student shad agreed as early as 1946 that modern world conditions demanded the University undertake a program more positive than the traditional birthday party-fund raising celebration. Discussion brought forth the idea of attempting to center the world's attention on the free and just use of knowledge. It was a noble idea and a difficult task. Ironically, the Committee was afraid its scheme would no longer prove apt by 1954. Nevertheless, it adopted the ponderous phrase, "man's Right to Knowledge and the Free Use Thereof" and began planning to unite...