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John Masefield was without a cake on his 70th birthday. Down with a cold, he skipped all celebrating. Outside of his family, nobody sent him a present. And the Poet Laureate, who sings like clockwork on royal anniversaries, received not a couplet...
...greatly, and for awhile they tried to keep the day of the exercises a secret until the last minute, but that didn't work at all. Then they passed rules saying that students had to come in sober, dark clothes, and forbidding them to consume distilled liquors or plum cake on the big day. They even had a clause against the eating of plain cake as an evasion of the law. There was nothing stopping wine or punch, however, and things went on as merrily as ever...
...nine braved the river, but three jumped with such abandon that Zuleika beckoned for an encore. (Said she: ''My heart bleeds for those unfortunate men, but . . .") Crying "The Lady calls" through chattering teeth, the nine jumped once more, later were succored by their heroine with rum and cake...
...physician an nounced that the U.A.W. chief, whose arm was nearly blasted off last April,* had a very good chance of regaining a "nearly 100% perfect arm." Bouquets In London, Queen Mary - in powder blue as usual - got fan mail, gun salutes, the cheers of crowds, a little cake with icing, and a toast from her family and friends at lunch, on her 81st birthday...
...Manhattan, Master Tapster Bill Robinson got a 70th-birthday cake (see cut), a Broadway blowout, a cruise party up the Hudson, a watch, and plaster casts of his feet, which he examined and pronounced authentic ("Got the bunions and all"). In Tokyo, General Douglas MacArthur gave the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post an autographed picture of himself...