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...onetime President leads there a dignified but almost forgotten existence. There sits the aged Justice Holmes in his 85th year.* There sit the neat Mr. Sanford, the rangy Mr. McReynolds, the substantial Mr. Stone, Mr. Brandeis of the rumpled hair, and three other quiet gentlemen, Mr. Sutherland, Mr. Van Devanter, Mr. Butler. They seem like an institution of the ages, and in a way they are. They are appointed for life to a court as old as the Government. Yet more than half of them are newcomers, comparatively speaking, Taft, Sutherland, Butler, Sanford and Stone having been appointed since President...
Thomas Hardy, famed novelist, celebrated his 85th birthday quietly at his home, Max Gate, in Dorchester. He received hundreds of congratulatory mes sages...
Number 27 of these dinners was held during the past week. The guest of honor was George Fisher Baker, Chairman of the Board of the First National Bank, doyen of U. S. bankers, hale and hearty, just on the short side of his 85th birthday and the 61st anniversary of his Wall Street career...
...Helena, Mont., there died from an attack of bronchial pneumonia a distinguished soldier, General Samuel B. M. Young, in the 85th year of his age. His career could hardly be called spectacular, but it was one of those lengthy records of achievement which occur every now and then in the Army...
President Eliot is quietly celebrating his 85th birthday in his home in Cambridge today. As in other years, he will pass the day without any special program...