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Henry Ford, observing his 81st birthday, is quoted as saying, "The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his life span by controlling his diet. I think he will find everything he needs in wheat; wheat is the divine food...
...81st session of the Japanese Diet closed last week after vesting more military, political and economic powers in Premier Hideki Tojo than any premier has held since Japan emerged from feudalism...
Wilhelm von HohenzoIIern, 21 years ago a beaten warlord and exiled Kaiser, today a grumpy old man on a cane, passed his 81st birthday last week quietly at Doom in The Netherlands. Nazi Germany took no official notice of the anniversary. Instead it turned back 228 years and celebrated the birth of Wilhelm II's great-great-granduncle, Frederick II. An intellectual, artistic youth whose stern father had to smack him around for years to make a man of him, Frederick II built up Prussia into a first-class European power. He became "the Great" by daring to take...
...hair and frosty blue eyes. He grew up in Buffalo, N. Y., where he had the luck to know a little girl named Mabel Dodge (later Luhan). who has recorded that his nickname was "Grouch" Goodyear. A Yaleman, class of '99. a Wartime colonel and commander of the 81st Field Artillery, "Grouch" Goodyear is president of Great Southern Lumber Co. and board chairman of Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad Co. He is also president of the Museum of Modern...
...work. The apartment, like the Cape Cod cottage where the Justice still spends his summers, has been a meeting place at one time or another for a generous quorum of most of the ablest younger legal minds in the U. S. There Justice Brandeis will this week celebrate his 81st birthday in the assurance that the next years in his grand-scale life may still be the greatest...