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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Astoria, little-faded General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, now board chairman of Sperry Rand Corp., observed his 78th birthday. After the banquet, the assembled brass watched a nostalgic film of the Pacific war, heard an Army-supplied double quartet blend voices in Old Soldiers Never Die. "At my age," allowed the general, "every birthday is a challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 10, 1958 | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

Playhouse 90: As The Gentleman from Seventh Avenue, fat, Austrian-born Actor Walter Slezak, 55, had reached "that dangerous age." A warm, voluble Jewish immigrant, he had made a success of his garment business, but his private life was caught in a rusty presser. To get French toast for breakfast, he had to "make out a requisition" the night before; his teenage daughter dispatched him to a movie because "we've got to turn out the lights now and neck." And in the sanctity of his own rooms was a frumpish wife (Sylvia Sidney) who read psychology books, plastered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

EXECUTIVE FAT is melting off. An insurance-industry study of 10,000 businessmen in the 35-65 age bracket shows that 25% fewer are significantly overweight than the same number tested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Feb. 10, 1958 | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...served my King, He would not in mine age...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Study in Scarlet | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...beautiful pageant known to history as the Field of Cloth of Gold: in a pleasant French valley, England's King Harry and France's young King Francis I met to pledge a treaty of friendship. It was, says Author Ferguson, "the last great canvas of the Middle Ages ... it marked the end of the age of chivalry and somehow prophetically dramatized the end of the age of churchmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Study in Scarlet | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

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