Word: 50s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Mrs. Caruso, a handsome, white-haired woman in her early 50s, will publish the story of her three-year marriage to the bombastic Italian opera king (Enrico Caruso, His Life and Death; Simon and Schuster, $2.75). Wisely, she made no changes in the picturesque, Italian-English in which Caruso brought her his daily dramas...
...especially for generals. He takes every opportunity to deny himself luxuries, especially food & drink. Plenty of rest, however, he considers not a luxury but a necessity. "I don't think," he once said, "that my men in Italy grudged me a caravan. After all, I am in my 50s...
...means a young man's game. The best batsman in the leagues is Cliff Daly, a real-estate salesman in his 40s. The best wicketkeeper is probably Evans Hackett, nearing 50. One of the star all-round players is Edmund Holder, an elevator man in his 50s. War did, however, take the top bowler, Roy Huggins. A former shipping clerk, he is one of twelve Negroes now working for a commission at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station...
...prejudice. What they lose in strength and quickness of reflexes they more than make up in greater endurance and skill. Biologists have found that by 50 most men have slipped a little in hearing and eyesight, but individuals vary greatly: one study showed that in a group in their 50s, a quarter had keener vision than the average...
...Gloom is spreading through Hitler's Germany, and defeatism is rising. Elderly guards, men in their 50s, let prisoners listen to BBC newscasts. When asked how the war was going, the guards replied: "We are advancing like this," and marched backwards...