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...March 7-Eightieth birthday of Thomas G. Masaryk, president of Czechoslovakia...
Today Thomas Alva Edison, most illustrious product of the Horatio Alger academy of success, reaches his eightieth year. And with the festival come congratulatory telegrams by the basket full: flowers--and Henry Ford. Honor comes to whom honor is due. For Edison is one of those fortunate geniuses who has received fame while he is still able to enjoy it. On him--as on only too few--are showered flowers for the living...
...Hasty Pudding Club, which is the oldest theatrical organization in America, is giving is eightieth annual production this spring. For many years it give serious plays, but in the seventies changed its policy and has produced musical comedies since that time...
...Thousands of Harvard students attribute to Professor Norton's influence lasting improvements in their modes of thought, their intellectual and moral interests, and their ideas of genuine success and true happiness," said President Eliot in a tribute to Professor Norton on his eightieth birthday. "His work in the University and his training for it were both unique, and are not likely to be paralleled in the future...
...public recitations as the greatest high-frequency ballad in American history. On his eightieth birthday d'Arcy learned that the Prohibition forces had been using his ballad as dry propaganda for years. As the poet intended it as a special pleading for free drinks for poor down-and-outers, he is very, very angry...