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...behalf of the Faculty, Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Law School, presented Dean Pound with a supplement to the bibliography of his works given him by the Faculty on his 70th birthday...
...York Yankees' flinty Manager Casey Stengel got rained out of a big salute planned in Yankee Stadium for his 70th birthday. So he retired to the catacombs of Yankee Stadium for a slice of birthday cake and a stroll down memory lane instead, fondly remembering the day in the 1920s when he and some other big leaguers met Britain's King George V. Each player, upon being introduced to His Highness, was told to say: "I'm honored." The first few players carried off their lines perfectly. But not brash Casey Stengel. "When the King gets...
Prime Minister Jawaharfal Nehru last week celebrated his 70th birthday with jaunty self-confidence. To newsmen who asked him for some words of wisdom for New Delhi's schoolchildren, he replied, "A birthday message? That sounds very pompous." Then, accepting a last garland of flowers from a little girl, Nehru got into his plane and was off to the hill resort of Dehra Dun to spend a relaxed weekend with his grandchildren...
...Nehru's 70th birthday neared, the Prime Minister found his own tame neutralist policies blamed for much of the trouble, and for India's unpreparedness to meet it. NEW WAVE or ANGER WITH MR. NEHRU, headlined the Ambala Tribune. "The Prime Minister is on trial," reported Bombay's Free Press Journal, as angry readers' letters piled high on editors' desks. Millions now knew that the Prime Minister had for years shrugged off Chinese incursions into faraway Ladakh, Kashmir's northeast tip, had even let China cut a road through the district in 1957 without...
This week, as Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman celebrated his 70th birthday and his 20th anniversary as New York's archbishop, he could look the length and breadth of his see for some remarkable achievements. During the last two decades, the Catholic population of the New York archdiocese (including Manhattan, The Bronx, Staten Island, and seven suburban counties) grew 50% to 1,558,328; the number of auxiliary bishops had risen from one to nine; the number of elementary and high schools had increased from 307 to 412; tireless Fund Raiser Spellman has chalked up $41,322,074 through...