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...Rome, on his 88th birthday, Philosopher George Santayana granted one of his rare interviews to a thoughtful reporter: "I haven't changed my mind basically about my philosophy, but I don't have the sense of simplicity that I used to have . . . Once upon a time I was not reconciled to the world because there were many things about it I did not like. Today, I am still not reconciled to it but for another reason-that I find things are not so simple to explain as I once imagined...
...room these days. Inside that airy corner room, filled with the neat disarray of an old bachelor's belongings, a fragile, black-eyed old man with one of the most far-ranging minds of the 20th Century is recovering from an annoying bout with the flu. In his 88th year, Philosopher George Santayana takes his ailments philosophically. His many would-be visitors feel them more keenly. Formerly host to every sensitive traveler with a metaphysical bee in his Baedeker, Santayana now restricts himself to old friends. Comparative solitude comes as no penance to a man who has long preferred...
...164th Infantry at Guadalcanal, won the Silver Star. In Europe he commanded the 8th Division in Germany, the 88th Division and the occupation forces at Trieste. Moore whipped a sloppy occupation force into a spit & polish outfit. In 1949 he was appointed superintendent of West Point...
...dazzled Kentuckians who watched Rupp's team win its 88th consecutive home game might well have missed Rupp's "definite" attack, but they were convinced they had watched the No. 1 team in the country...
From the No. 1 Communist of the U.S., William Z. Foster, and some associates came a birthday posy for old Party Matriarch Mother (Ella Reeve) Bloor. "Your 88th birthday," they reminded her, "sees 850 million in the world who have moved away from the bloody way of imperialism...