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...Swiss cheese on rye (no mustard) and one banana are his customary lunch, but world-famed Architect Walter Gropius settled for champagne and caviar when some 40 colleagues turned out to surprise him on his 80th birthday. Best surprise of all to the prolific former chairman of Harvard's department of architecture was the appearance of an old crony, Finnish Architect Hugo Alvar Aalto, 65. When the two men were through toasting each other, Gropius opened a letter notifying him of an honorary Ph.D. from the University of Berlin. "Isn't that nice?" he said...
...exhibition honoring architect Walter Gropius on his 80th birthday will be on display at the Loeb Drama Center until June 15. The exhibition was organized by the Bauhaus Archive, Darmstadt, and was brought to the United States by the West German Consul in Boston...
Omar and Fatten now have a five-year-old son. At 31, he has long since become an Arabian film star nearly as celebrated as his wife, who is currently making her 80th picture, in Cairo. Since Sam Spiegel cast him in Lawrence, Omar has felt the pull of the West. He is now in Spain, ready to start work in Samuel Bronston's Fall of the Roman Empire. He plays an Armenian king who falls in love with Sophia Loren, beloved daughter of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. "It is not a very long part," says Omar grandly...
...predecessors as he has urged nations to "hear the anguished cry which from every part of the earth, from the young innocents to the old. rises toward heaven: 'Peace! Peace!'" Even Nikita Khrushchev was moved. He praised the Pope's pleas for peace, sent him a greeting on his 80th birthday. Many in the Vatican thought the Pope should ignore it, but John sat down and wrote a reply: "Thank you for the thought. And I will pray for the people of Russia...
...80th birthday was June 17. And last week, the extravagant tributes to Igor Stravinsky reached a fortissimo as CBS broadcast the world premiere of Stravinsky's only composition written expressly for television...