Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Saratoga (adapted from Edna Ferber's novel Saratoga Trunk; music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer) is a gorgeously decked-out period musical, moving from a plush New Orleans in the '80s to a palmy Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The handsome sets and costumes by Cecil Beaton are much the brightest part of the show. Despite some lively Ralph Beaumont dances, some pleasant Harold Arlen music and some neat touches in Morton Da Costa's direction, Saratoga has all the animation of a tableau and all the narrative interest of something written 50 times...
...sexual relations. Duke University Psychiatrist E. Gustave Newman reported last week to the Gerontological Society. From a study of 149 couples aged 60 to 93, the Newman research team found that 70% continued to have sexual relations up to age 70 - and some of them into their late 80s. The frequency showed a wide range, from four or five times a year to three times a week, with higher frequencies in the lower socio-economic classes. Main reason for discontinuance of marital relations: ill health...
...quisling by his own countrymen. "A more eminent disciple of Nietzsche than any German" in Thomas Mann's judgment, Knut Hamsun was a peasant's son who grew up in Norway's far north, wandered as a hobo through Illinois and the Dakotas of the '80s, and buried himself in a remote corner of Norway to write novels (Growth of the Soil, Pan, Hunger) of great depth and power. Then, old and full of honors, including the 1920 Nobel Prize, Knut Hamsun told his countrymen when the Nazis invaded Norway: "Throw away your rifles. The Germans...
Outside the office, Mueller likes to read economics, enjoys bridge, plays golf in the 80s. In 1938, when his wife (who died last year) gave him a plane as a Christmas present, he qualified as a pilot, survived one crash and went on to organize the Grand Rapids Civil Air Patrol, still has a passion for flying, though he gave up piloting in 1951. Friends say Fritz Mueller looks younger than he did when he came to Washington in 1955. "I happen to enjoy the stimulation of challenge," said he, "and Washington is the place to find stimulation...
...then the average weight has dropped to 148 Ibs. In the early 905, men average an inch shorter and tip the scales at a wispy 136 Ibs. Women aged 65-69 average 5 ft. 3 in. tall and weigh 141 Ibs.; those in the upper 80s are an inch shorter and weigh...