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Birthdays. Joseph Stalin, his 61st, without public mention; Canada's Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King, his 66th, with 66 roses from his Cabinet; Senhora Darcy de Vargas, wife of Brazil's President Getulio Vargas, her nth (it is considered very poor taste to divulge a lady's age in Brazil...
...Lily Dale Assembly, in New York, is the "Largest Spiritualist Camp in the World." There each summer spiritualism bursts into full bloom. Last week its 61st annual session drew believers and skeptics alike for contact with the spirit world. In parlor seances in many a medium's cottage along Lily Dale's wooded roads, the ether was crowded with voices. Reported Editor Juliette Ewing Pressing of The Psychic Observer: "The heavenly hosts are pleading with us these days to keep our balance and poise." Plainest talk came from the late Claude Augustus Swanson, Senator and Secretary...
...61st birthday, pipe-smoking, violin-playing Albert Einstein admitted his long-sought formula that will comprehend the universe had not been found. Said he: "I am having difficulty there." Asked if he would celebrate his birthday, he chuckled: "What is there to celebrate? . . . Birthdays are for children...
...guess he was 30. Last week Manhattan had the chance to see him on the street and dancing, simultaneously. Accompanied by a police escort, followed by a crowd, for 16 blocks down Broadway he gaily, grinningly, unweariedly clicked his heel-&-toe. It was Bojangles' way of celebrating his 61st birthday...
...Yale went into its 61st game with Princeton a not-too-heavy favorite, because it is legend that "anything can happen" in that series. But nothing unexpected happened. On the first play after the opening kickoff, Clinton Frank, Yale's hefty captain, whipped through the Princeton line, splattered 79 yards through the mud for a touchdown. Thereafter he scored three more, gained 190 of Yale's 280 yards. Score: Yale 26, Princeton...