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...most powerful, most important Gletkin in the Soviet Union reached his Soth birthday last week. The tallowy face of Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov glowered from the front page of every important newspaper in the land. As a birthday gift he got the Order of Lenin, Communism's highest decoration. The Kremlin's praise was laid on with a trowel...
...head table in a banquet room of Baltimore's Hamilton Street Club one night last week, a spry, white-haired man of 83 rose, smiling and nodding, to acknowledge the cheers and applause of the guests who had come to honor him. Robert Williams Wood was in his soth year as a full professor at Johns Hopkins University, and the brightest names in the scientific world wanted to help celebrate the occasion. Albert Einstein had written to pay his respects, Niels Bohr had cabled from Copenhagen, Robert A. Millikan, Harlow Shapley and Karl Compton all sent messages...
...Opera (1910-39), who sang a record-breaking 1,687 performances in 75 roles, was best known for his Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. After retiring at 68, he gave voice lessons, ran a radio program, brought the house down at a soth anniversary concert in 1949, admitted: "My voice is still very good, you know, but it can't compare with the golden voice I once...
...History Unveiled. Then the script changed. Slansky did not disappear. He was "promoted" to Vice Premier and given control of all Czech economic affairs. He continued to get a big play in the Czech press. On his soth birthday last July 30, he got the Order of Socialism from Gottwald. Only last month the government unveiled with a flourish Slansky's two-volume history of Communism...
...many ways, the most magnificent show of the season was the one displayed at Wildenstein & Co. To celebrate the firm's soth year in the U.S., Wildenstein's borrowed back 62 of the masterpieces the gallery had sold to U.S. museums and collectors. Among them: Titian's heroic Man with the Falcon, Watteau's romantic The Mezzetin and Cezanne's spacious Chestnut Trees at the Jas de Bouffon...