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...birthday on Jan. 30 and help to raise a permanent endowment fund for his favorite charity, the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. To Warm Springs went a most impressive birthday present -a vast crate containing a glittering pinnacle of frosted fruit cake, six feet high and weighing 344 Ib. It was the gift of the committee's chairman, Utilitarian Henry Latham Doherty. Designed and baked in the kitchens of his Miami-Biltmore Hotel, the cake is, like the hotel, of steel frame construction. It contains 548 eggs, 75 Ib. of sugar, 50 Ib. of butter, 60 Ib. of flour...
...making Roman helmets of strawberry ice cream and pistachios, spun-sugar rabbits stuffed with puddings or parfaits, wheelbarrows of pastry filled with sugar roses. The tower of pastry with its 52 candles awaiting President Roosevelt last week was not his first crustularian masterpiece. The Roosevelt Inaugural Cake weighed 110 Ib. and was the product of Mme Blanche (Blanche LeRallec), famed cake baker to all U. S. Presidents since the first Roosevelt. A crustularian purist. Mme Blanche disdains such devices as building her mammoth cakes around steel or wooden scaffolding. She has built self-supporting cakes weighing over 600 Ib. which...
Born. To Alfred Mossman Landon, 45, Governor of Kansas, and Theo Cobb Landon : a son, their second child; in Topeka. Weight: 8 Ib. Name: John Cobb Landon. Governor Landon has a 17-year-old daughter by his first wife, who died...
Born. To Walter ("Walt") Disney, 32, cinemanimator (Mickey Mouse, Three Little Pigs), and Lillian Bounds Disney: a daughter; in Hollywood, while Animator Disney was being awarded a medal for distinguished service to childhood by President Rufus von Kleinsmid of the University of Southern California. Weight: 8 Ib. 2 oz. Name: Dianne Marie...
BOrn. To John Randolph Hearst, 24, third and ablest son of William Randolph Hearst, and Gretchen Wilson Hearst; a son, their first child; in Manhattan. Weight: 7 Ib...