Busy as hornets last week was an organization known as the National Committee for the Birthday Ball for the President. From its headquarters in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria the committee announced that at least 5,000 U. S. communities would celebrate President Roosevelt's birthday on Jan. 30 and help to raise a permanent endowment fund for his favorite charity, the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. To Warm Springs went a most impressive birthday present a vast crate containing a glittering pinnacle of frosted fruit cake, six feet high and weighing 344 Ib. It was the gift of...
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