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Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, pioneer New Dealer who has long advocated retirement from the Supreme Bench at 70, celebrated his 70th birthday at a dinner party in Manhattan...
Royalty from all Scandinavia gathered in Stockholm to celebrate the 70th birthday of King Gustaf Adolf of Sweden. Among the special events: a gift contributed by his subjects, a check for 5,000,000 kroner ($966,500), which the King said would be used to further Swedish culture; an all-Wagnerian concert by the Royal Court Orchestra, conducted, after shirtsleeved rehearsals, by King Frederik of Denmark...
Convalescing from three eye operations performed in Holland, Eire's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera celebrated his 70th birthday in a Utrecht hospital. In addition to letters and presents, the Prime Minister received almond cakes in the shape of a 7 and an 0, and a cake (with green icing) in the shape of an unpartitioned Ireland. Invited to cut the cake, De Valera asked: "Why should it be up to me to partition it?" Of the hospital party he said: "Wasn't it a grand idea...
...Editorially farsighted, he fought for realistic internationalism, opposed Communist imperialism when few others could even find it, fought corruption. Few men seemed to stay as vigorous with advancing years. But last week. 30 years after he first spoke it, Roy Howard made good his threat to quit. On his 70th birthday next New Year's Day, Howard announced, he will resign as president of the chain's top operating company, E. W. Scripps Co., and a new young team will take over. The members...
...native Lancashire, still strongly accented in his speech. With a roving eye, an eloquent eyebrow and the general air of a grand poseur in the Edwardian manner, he is a brilliant and exhilarating after-dinner speaker. ("Winston and I are the two best speakers in England!") On his 70th birthday, he announced that all his exhibitionisms to date were merely "the overture" to what he intended to be "a deadly, unstoppable and indefatigable campaign against the dry rot that one observes everywhere in this unhappy land...