Word: 60s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week Athlyn Deshais announced the name of the winner and new queen: Mrs. Chauncey McCormick. Sighed Mrs. McCormick: "I'm completely overcome." Certainly the new queen was eminently qualified for her job. Marion McCormick, a grandmother in her 60s, is a third-generation Chicagoan, and one of the richest women in the U.S. She gives impeccable dinners, served on gold plate and fine Lowestoft china. She is a cousin by marriage of Bertie McCormick. She owns fabulous emeralds, pearls and old masters, presides over a luxurious Lake View Avenue apartment, a Wheaton suburban estate, a mansion at Seal...
...Lehman does not try to analyze businessmen's achievements. He merely notes that they make most money in their 60s...
...sturdy Ashantis, 900,000 strong, grub for gold and diamonds in the forest fastness of their hereditary King: Nana Osei Agyeman Prempeh II, a dignified man in his 60s who plays golf, keeps several dozen wives, and uses as the symbol of his office a glistening Golden Stool...
...Patient." Gwen John was in her 30s when she met Rodin. But Rodin was in his 60s, and busy with a complex public life. "Be patient and less violent," he admonished her. Yet the illustrious sculptor was fond of Gwen, and wrote frequent letters scolding about her health. And even after she entered the Roman Catholic Church she clung to Rodin for love and comfort. "My heart is like a sea which has little sad waves," she wrote. "But every ninth wave is big and happy...
...newborn great-grandchild, "a puny boy weighing seven pounds." "Goddam it," he said, "the next generation of Fishers is goin' to be squirrels." His son, Thurber's grandfather, was hardly that. He showed his independence by having all his teeth capped with gold and, in his 60s, swallowing beach sand to "assist the integrity of the intestinal track...