Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once before, at the age of 75, President Hamilton Holt of Florida's coeducational Rollins College had tried to say goodbye. "It is better," he said, "to quit when they want you to stay than to stay when they want you to quit." But the trustees disagreed, persuaded Hamilton Holt to serve one more year. Last week, at commencement time, the year was up. "Prexy" Holt was made an honorary member of the Class of '49, and like his new classmates, he said his last goodbye...
From the time he heard his first concert in Philadelphia at the age of twelve, Virginian Dick Bales knew he wanted to be a conductor. After high school he went to Rochester's Eastman School of Music. In 1940, after he had toured with a WPA orchestra and studied on a Juilliard fellowship, Serge Koussevitzky picked him as one of five outstanding young U.S. conductors, packed him off to the new Berkshire Music Center for private instruction...
...ripe age for big-league golf, Samuel Jackson Snead was burning up the courses like a Virginia grass fire. He shot hard and accurate golf to win the Masters Tournament in April, and he was red-hot last week as he stroked his way to the P.G.A. championship at Richmond's Hermitage Country Club. In between times, Sam was warm enough to scoop up seven other prizes, boosting his winnings for the year to $12,610, tops in the trade. Unless something put the fire out he figured to have the biggest of all tournaments, this week...
...Grandpa Firebrace has reached the age when he is only too happy to pardon all error, especially his own. His former son-in-law, Sir Roderick Shelley, strives to be an impartial judge, especially when it would cause him discomfort to take sides. Sir Roderick's second wife, Maria, who is fighting for respect in a household that is strongly under the influence of the first Lady Shelley's relatives, hopes to win it by chivvying her two children to an impossible peak of perfection. The children in turn, hope to reward her love by achieving the impossible...
...age of 70, with almost neurotic zest, James recalled "the most appalling yet most admirable nightmare of my life," in which he had first been driven to "unutterable fear" by a "presence" and had then turned about and chased it down a long hallway. Throughout his life James was fascinated by the supernatural. He read Poe's horror tales, thought several of Hawthorne's fantasies "little masterpieces," and relished the late 19th Century pseudo-scientific stories about mesmerism or "animal magnetism." In his European travels, he spent many weekends at castles where family ghosts were indispensable furnishings...