Colonel Has State on Preferential Vote by About 12,000 Plurality.; CITIES NEARLY ALL ARE HIS
Date: 29 May 1912
incomplete returns show Roosevelt and Wilson sweeping NJ
Patrick White Birthday, Date of Birth
Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990) was an Australian novelist and playwright who explored themes of religious experience, personal identity and the conflict between visionary individuals and a materialistic, conformist society. Influenced by the modernism of James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, he developed a complex literary style and a body of work that challenged the dominant realist prose tradition of his home country, was satirical of Australian society, and sharply divided local critics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973 and is the only Australian to have been awarded it.
Born in London to affluent Australian parents, White spent his childhood in Sydney and on his family's rural properties. He was sent to an English public school at the age of 13, and went on to read modern languages at Cambridge. After graduating in 1935 he embarked on a literary career. His first published novel, Happy Valley (1939), was awarded the Gold Medal of the Australian Literature Society. In World War II he served as an intelligence officer in the Royal Air Force. While stationed in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1941, he met Manoly Lascaris, who became his life companion and, as White later wrote, "the central mandala in my life's hitherto messy design."
In 1948 White returned to Australia, where he bought a small farm on the outskirts of Sydney. There he wrote the two novels, The Tree of Man (1955) and Voss (1957), that brought him critical acclaim in the United States and the United Kingdom. In the 1960s he wrote the novels Riders in the Chariot (1961) and The Solid Mandala (1966), and a series of plays, including The Season at Sarsaparilla and A Cheery Soul, that had a major impact on Australian theatre.
White and Lascaris moved to Sydney's Centennial Park in 1964. From the late 1960s White became increasingly involved in public affairs, opposing the Vietnam War and supporting Aboriginal self-determination, nuclear disarmament and environmental causes. His later work includes the novels The Eye of the Storm (1973) and The Twyborn Affair (1979) and the memoir Flaws in the Glass (1981).
Read more...- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Tuesday, May 28, 1912
- Place of Birth
- London
- Age
- 113
- Star Sign
- ♊
The May 28, 1912 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♊. It was the 148 day of the year. President of the United States was William Howard Taft.
If you were born on this day, you are 113 years old. Your last birthday was on the Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 360 days ago. Your next birthday is on Thursday, May 28, 2026, in 4 days. You have lived for 41,633 days, or about 999,212 hours, or about 59,952,777 minutes, or about 3,597,166,620 seconds.
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28th of May 1912 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on May 28, 1912
NO INTERVENTION, SAYS TAFT.; He Makes Plain Our Attitude in a Message to Gomez.
Date: 28 May 1912
Special to The New York Times
MRS. GLEASON WEDS STEPSON; Well-Known Philadelphians Disappear After New York Ceremony.
Date: 29 May 1912
Special to The New York Times
ALLIS-CHALMERS LIEN SUIT.; Foreclosure Proceedings Taken on a $5,000,000 Mortgage.
Date: 29 May 1912
Chicago bank forecloses $5-million mortgage on Milwaukee plant
PUBLIC'S AID MEAGRE FOR FLOOD VICTIMS; Little More Than $10,000 Collected in This City for Sufferers in the South.
Date: 28 May 1912
pub contributions to relief funds still lagging; Red Cross dir details relief needed in Mississippi Valley
NO MERCY TO BE SHOWN REBELS; Cuban Commanders Are Told the Republic's Fate Is at Stake.
Date: 29 May 1912
Special to The New York Times
Cuban comdrs reptdly told Repub's fate is at stake
Deny There Is Breakfast Deficit.
Date: 28 May 1912
Special to The New York Times
deficit denied by interested parties
MRS. JEAN WHITCOMB DEAD.; One-Time Social Leader, Fallen Into Poverty, Was a City Charge.
Date: 29 May 1912
Article 13 -- No Title
Date: 29 May 1912
By Telegraph to the Editor of THE NEW YORK TIMES
COLORADO SUGAR MEN FATTENED ON TRUST; Sold Half of Great Western Stock to Havemeyer for as Much as They Put Into Company.
Date: 29 May 1912
J F Campion tells history of Great Western and of Havemeyer role in co