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Shortly before he gathered most of his clan (5 children, 15 grandchildren) at his Long Island home for his 70th birthday party, the unblinking beacon of U.S. Socialism, Norman Thomas, loosed a flood of thoughts and recollections for veteran New York Timesman A. H. Raskin. No longer a perennial also-ran (six defeats) for the U.S. presidency, roving Lecturer-Writer-Committeeman Thomas had lost none of his tongue's facile sharpness. Eying the rigors of a world toying with the idea of "peaceful coexistence" (he calls it "competitive coexistence"), Thomas placed his bet on the West: "Our democracy...
...plot concerns a so-called "Collateral Campaign" to celebrate the Austro-Hungarian Emperor's 70th jubilee. The campaign grinds along like a slow bus to nowhere. Committees beget committees, pressure groups stall each other in what one critic described as the dance of rainmakers who have lost their magic. The ruling class sketched by Author Musil has lost not only its magic, but its faith in God, its fear of the Devil and its confidence in itself. It has opinions but no convictions, techniques but no principles, ideals but no beliefs. In short, its troubles may be more timely...
...Manhattan powwow sponsored by United Nations boosters to celebrate Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's 70th birthday, Andrei Vishinsky, Russia's chief delegate to the U.N., dropped in as a surprise guest. When the festivities ended, Vishinsky warmly shook hands with one of his tablemates, a self-confessed Republican. "You are a very nice young man," glowed Communist Vishinsky. "If I were an American, I would be a Republican...
...70th birthday, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who relaxed during the past twelve months by scurrying some 50,000 miles to boom the United Nations, sat back and reflected on her bustling life...
...roster of hardy booklovers who could never quite untangle its polysyllabic characters distinctly enough to muddle through War and Peace, a distinguished new name was added. The bored nonreader: Author Leo Tolstoy himself. In Chicago, on the eve of her 70th birthday, the great Russian novelist's daughter, Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, confided that her unpredictable father preferred his folk tales and short stories to the eye-straining 687,000 words of his most famous novel. "He never reread War and Peace," said she. "And when he heard us reading it aloud one day, he didn't even recognize...