Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another U.N. birthday party last week, a group of less restrained celebrators commented at length, but scarcely said any more. Just four years after the signing of the San Francisco Charter, the U.N.'s General Assembly met in special open-air session at the site of the new U.N. building at the East River foot of Manhattan's 42nd Street, to watch the cornerstone laid for U.N.'s imposing new headquarters. As President Truman arrived at the 42nd Street site, the combined New York Police, Fire & Sanitation Department bands struck up The Sidewalks of New York, better...
...inside. At once, the 1,500 banqueters rose from their tables, and the room rocked with applause. Educator-Philosopher John Dewey nodded his white head, smiled behind his scraggly mustache as scholars and eminent professors clapped until their hands ached. Then everyone joined in a chorus of "Happy birthday...
...ballroom guests were not alone in celebrating John Dewey's 90th birthday. Messages had poured in from all over the world-from President Harry Truman and Prime Minister Clement Attlee, from Pandit Nehru, Historian Arnold Toynbee, Harvard's President James B. Conant and from a hundred U.S. colleges and universities. A dozen foreign nations had planned celebrations. Friends were raising $90,000 for an educational Dewey Birthday Fund. Gruffed John Dewey when a reporter asked him what he thought of it all: "I keep thinking it's a damned funny thing to celebrate...
Fifty U.S. Army musicians invaded Columbia University's campus to play Happy Birthday under the window of its president, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, as he reached...
Last week Juilliard Graduate Grenell could point with both pride and profit to the third birthday of his Young People's Records, Inc. He had been cited by the Review of Recorded Music as "a major cultural influence." The membership in his Y.P.R. Club (one record a month for $15 a year) was above 100,000. Some of his subscribers: New York City Board...