Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Herbert Clark Hoover, who has known less amiable Congresses, got a present from Capitol Hill to mark his 75th birthday this week. Both Houses unanimously passed a resolution thanking the former President for his "devoted service to his country and to the world...
...Wizard. Appling has been celebrating his 40th birthday for several years now. The evidence indicates that he was born in High Point, N.C., some 42 or 43 years ago, moved with his family to Atlanta, played shortstop at Fulton High and at Oglethorpe University (where he also played football). He left Oglethorpe after two years to play baseball with the Atlanta Crackers, and the White Sox snapped him up during his first season...
...heavily. Seoane had lodged a complaint of criminal larceny against Elguera, who was expected to be recalled to Peru. And, as partial satisfaction, the mayor's office had authorized the Apristas to lay another wreath at the O'Higgins statue on Aug. 20, the Liberator's birthday...
George Bernard Shaw, pixie, playwright and pundit, turned 93, ate some birthday cake and let go a thought or two on politics ("Stalin [is] the mainstay of peace in Europe") and his own advanced years ("Thank God, I've reached my second childhood"). London's Liberal News Chronicle concurred only in the latter view. "[Shaw]," it wrote, "is now the grand old man of English letters but not, alas ... of English politics. In that field he has said wittily a greater number of silly things than any intelligent man is entitled to say in ... a lifetime...
Shouts & Tremors With no script girl handy to take it all down, there was naturally some confusion about blonde, bulb-eyed ex-Cinemactress Joan Blondell's backstage ad-libbing. Producer Harold J. Kennedy, who had hired Miss Blondell for a week's stand in Happy Birthday at Princeton, N.J., said Joan used "vile and abusive language" to his cast. Joan admitted that she may have said "gosh" or "darn it." Mr. Kennedy said she threw a $40 silver hand mirror at either him or another member of the cast. Miss Blondell said it was not a mirror...