Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visitors to the U.S., on hand and in transit at Eastertide, were a varied company. In age they ranged from Ireland's white-thatched, sprightly President Sean Thomas O'Kelly, 76, to Jordan's young (23), furnace-tested King Hussein. In geography and position they ranged from vest-pocket-sized Denmark's Premier and Foreign Minister, H. C. (for Hans Christian) Hansen, to vast Brazil's powerful, unbending War Minister and possible presidential candidate, Henrique Teixeira Lott. But for all their differences, they had one thing in common: all were friends...
...gilded age when sables were a princess' best friend, the nation's best place to buy sables was Manhattan's C. G. Gunther's Sons. Founded in 1820 by a German immigrant associated with Fur Trader John Jacob Astor, Gunther's not only combed Siberia for the finest sables, but bid in the London market for the finest ermine, sent its agents across Canada on the lookout for mink. Even men coveted the Gunther's label. Gunther's long operated the only men's fur department in Manhattan, offering coats made...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). A Trip to Paradise: the hard way of a teen age boy (Burt Brinckerhoff) through a world full of delinquents and beatniks...
...effect, Hodgson shuns brilliant images that grasp the eye. His life is the same way. Passersby are shocked at the disrepair of the farm that he has never worked, at the unruly weeds that he lets grow. An alert, clear-eyed man who looks 20 years younger than his age, Hodgson has no time for such practical things ("Time, you old gypsy man, / Will you not stay, / Put up your caravan / Just for one day?"). Says he in his musing, friendly tone: "What we have to consider is the brevity of life." His real work is wonder about the energy...
...MIDDLE AGE OF MRS. ELIOT (439 pp.)-Angus Wilson-Viking...