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Perhaps Holmes best summarized his life when he quoted a line from a Latin poet on his 90th birthday...
...YORKER magazine will celebrate the 90th anniversary of its founding this month, and the occasion will be suitably honored by Brendan Gill's amiable in-house chronicle. Here At The New Yorker. Gill has been there during most of the magazine's lifetime, having been taken on as a staff writer straight from Yale in the late 30's and has enjoyed the company and the friendship of many of the literary figures that history and their New York Times obituaries will inevitably associate with the magazine...
...when the New York Post finally bent to years of entreaties and made him a columnist (at $50 a week). His refusal to monger scandal earned him the trust that the famous withheld from more waspish types like Walter Winchell and Dorothy Kilgallen. On George Bernard Shaw's 90th birthday, he granted Lyons an exclusive interview. Ernest Hemingway's wife Mary phoned Lyons with the first word that her husband was dead. The Trumans entertained him during their last days at the White House...
...President was in a lively mood at a party celebrating the 90th birthday of Alice Roosevelt Longworth. When his wife Pat gave the tart-tongued daughter of Theodore Roosevelt two jars of Iranian caviar, Nixon indiscreetly confided that it was a gift "from the Shah to Pat and from Pat to you." Advised by the President to "eat it with a spoon," the irrepressible Mrs. Longworth replied: "I'll wallow in it"-an allusion to Nixon's celebrated comment: "Let others wallow in Watergate." Asked later about the party, Nixon's Watergate resentments surfaced in an attack...
...House Speaker Nicholas Longworth (who died in 1931), personally acquainted with every President since Benjamin Harrison, indomitable doyenne on the Washington social circuit for decades. The nation's mighty court her, celebrities seek invitations to tea, Washington taxi drivers lean out and yell, "Hi, Alice!" Marking her 90th birthday this week, "Princess Alice," an affectionate sobriquet from her White House years, continues to survey the capital scene from her rambling mansion on Washington's Embassy Row. TIME'S Bonnie Angelo called on the irrepressible grande dame recently and found her in zesty good form...