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...banquet was bald-pated William Martin Jeffers, 61, U. P. executive vice president, who last week was named by Chairman William Averell Harriman to succeed Mr. Gray on Oct. 1. It is at Carl Gray's own insistence that he steps down as president three days after his 70th birthday, so that no exception be made to the U. P. retirement rules. He will become vice chairman of the board with supervision over matters of public policy...
Celebrating his 70th birthday at London's P.E.N. Club banquet, said H. G. Wells: "I just hate it. I feel like a youngster sitting on the floor with all my games spread out before me. . . . It is as if my nurse were coming to me to say: 'Bertie, it is getting late-time to put those toys away...
...Grand Army which tottered down six blocks of Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue at its 70th Encampment last week was a sentimental relic which, by Death and the dimming of old passions, had been stripped of political power for a generation. Of the 355 parading oldsters, whose average age was 92, only 170 crickety survivors of the mighty march of 1883 were able to hobble along at a funeral pace under their own power. The rest rode in automobiles. Bulking far larger than veterans in the parade and in Washington Hotel lobbies were the proud, full-bosomed Ladies...
...died at 51 last fortnight in Albuquerque, N. Mex. Last week his will revealed that except for small bequests to his mother and two sisters, his entire estate of something over $7,000,000 will go to Northwestern. Bringing the family total to $10,300,000, it was the 70th gift which the university has received from persons of the blood and name of Deering. It was also the last, for Roger was the only surviving male member of the family...
...service or years. George Roosa James, Memphis drygoods man and banker, was appointed by President Harding in 1923. Next year he will be 70 and though he has the crotchets that go with age, he is crammed full of useful technical information. Adolph Caspar Miller, who will have his 70th birthday in a week, was one of the original members of the first Federal Reserve Board appointed by President Wilson in 1914. For 24 years before that he was an economist. His chances of reappointment are considered good, because he was a great & good friend of Franklin Roosevelt...