Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the Bible and Bernard Shaw, most doctors think that no human being can hope to live much more than 100 years. The ripest old age ever verified was that of a Canadian who lived to be 113.* But according to Dr. V. G. Korenchevsky of Oxford University, an authority on longevity, more & more people are crowding the Canadian's record. Dr. Korenchevsky, reporting last week on a census of Britain's centenarians (oldest: 112), found that, percentagewise, the number of people over 100 is rising faster than the population. Between 1938 and 1945 Britain had 873 centenarians...
...Oxford's Gerontological Research Unit, Dr. Korenchevsky is working tirelessly on the problem of extending man's life span. Says he: "Science and medicine will not rest until they solve the riddle of what is normal aging . . . and the normal span of life." Last week the doctor told an international conference of physiologists at Oxford that he had thoroughly explored, and exploded, one highly touted hope against old age: the male hormone, testosterone. Giving testosterone to an old man, he said, is like whipping a tired horse; it may lash him to a quick and fatal collapse...
...Elizabethan age, big with luxury, vanity, conquest and high emprise, also produced the English miniature. It was the Century of the Uncommon Man. The art of the miniaturist, wrote Miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard in 1600, is "a thing apart from all other painting or drawing, and tendeth not to common men's use . . . and is for the service of noble persons, very meet in small volumes in private manner for them to have portraits and pictures of themselves, their peers and any other...
...miniatures showed up surprisingly well under the cold glass of the museum's showcases. Most were only two inches in their largest dimension, often pasted on the back of cut-down playing cards, but in their small compass Hilliard had captured much of the sensuous exuberance of the age of Drake, Spenser and Sidney. One was a self-portrait, at 30, fine-featured and candid-eyed, painted against Hilliard's favorite indigo-blue background. The biggest (see cut) was a 10⅛-inch painting of the buccaneering 3rd Earl of Cumberland. Besides portraits of courtiers, there were miniatures...
Many a contemptuous observer of the conquered Germans must have had moments when he asked himself such questions. Lieut. Cooper had reached the age of 37 without disproving his fear that he was a coward. "He had hoped finally it would be in this war, the first war in which the psychiatrists had made it 'all right' to be afraid, so long as you were brave," that he would rebuild his self-respect. "He had rushed out on Dec. 8, 1941, to seek another chance...