Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letters deemed auspicious for the day upon which he was born (e.g., K or G for Monday, T, D or N for Saturday). There are rarely family names, if at all. The Burmese also believe that a child's personality is often determined by his birthday, or by his demeanor at birth. "A man born on Monday will be jealous; on Tuesday, honest; on Wednesday, short-tempered but soon calm; on Thursday, mild; on Friday, talkative; on Saturday, hot-tempered and quarrelsome; on Sunday, parsimonious." *U Xu and 90% of the Burmese are Theravada Buddhists, accepting Buddhism...
...your Aug. 2 story, "How to Live to 100": Please be informed of the remark made to the press last April 6 by Mrs. Athalie Neuvelle of Angouleme, France, who, on her joist birthday, declared: "I've always preferred cognac to doctors...
Since last spring the little Quaker farming town of West Branch, Iowa (pop. 769) had been getting ready for the 80th birthday of its famous son. The Lions International club pushed a campaign to get the town's modest homes gleaming with new paint, and front yards trimmed to the quick. Work was rushed on the new elementary school so that the famous guest could dedicate it. The night before the big day, the Women's Society of Christian Service of the Methodist Church stored gallons of pickled beets and great bowls of applesauce in the demonstration refrigerators...
...quintuplets did live. From tiny infants, fed with eyedroppers and enriched almost from birth with the dollars of the curious and the exploiters (total: about $1,250,000), they grew into carefully chaperoned girlhood, then into shy, sequestered, plain-looking young women. This year on their 20th birthday, Emilie, Annette and Cecile were taking domestic science studies; Yvonne was studying fine arts in Montreal; Marie was about to leave a Quebec convent where she had decided against becoming...
...Havana, white-bearded Author Ernest Hemingway strode into the public eye with his head cropped bald (so that scalp wounds he picked up in his famed African plane crash will heal more quickly), was officially decorated on his 55th birthday with the Order of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes-the highest honor Cuba can bestow upon a foreigner. Later Papa displayed the decoration for wife Mary and friend Jaime Bofill, launched on his 56th year in a warm and sentimental glow...