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Last week came Clarence Augustus Chant's 70th birthday. That same day David Dunlap Observatory was officially opened and Dr. Chant officially became its director-master of the world's second largest telescope in service...
...Duffield took his place, and close to him his good old friend, Dr. Frederick Ludwig Hoffman, Prudential's longtime consultant on vital statistics. Dr. Hoffman, a frail and fretful oldster, fidgeted as he ate and drank. For President Duffield had scheduled the banquet as Dr. Hoffman's 70th birthday party. It was a special salute to him, and a farewell. He had passed his company's age limit and, willynilly, was retired...
...Sept. 28, in Norfolk, at the conclusion of the 1495th performance. Producer Stebbins and Playwright Connelly officially recognized the extent to which The Green Pastures rests on Actor Harrison's aging shoulders. It was his 70th birthday. So they raised his salary and for the first time billed him as the star of the show he had carried so long and so well...
...celebrating his 70th birthday, tall, lean, goat-bearded General Peyton Conway March, Chief of Staff during the last months of the War, welcomed newshawks in his Washington office, told them that the U. S. should build up its Army from 136,000 to 300,000 men in preparation for war in Europe. Warned he: "The situation in Europe is so bad that anything can happen at any time. The Saar at present is a tinder box. . . . Japan will never play a hand with us unless...
...never known TIME, June 25, 1934 poverty. His domineering wife, an old-time singer, supports him when he says that there is no great glory in going to a pauper's grave like Schubert. Only at skat, his favorite recreation, will he risk a gamble. Strauss's 70th birthday brought forth countless praises. But the tall, ruddy-cheeked old composer remained as detached and matter-of-fact as when he said years ago: "If my compositions are good, or mark a new phase in musical progress, they will be honorably mentioned in histories of music-which nobody will...