Word: elderly
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...pride. As the city's "Outstanding Young Man of 1955," Jack Donald Hubbard, then 35, was the kind of bigger-than-life operator that Texans instantly recognize and dearly love. Starting as a teen-age bank runner, he had become president of the Bank of Commerce, a church elder, a United Fund official, district chairman of the Boy Scouts and of a Savings Bond drive. Last week Fort Worth learned just how extraordinary Jack Hubbard's talents were. A federal grand jury indicted him on charges of willful misapplication of bank funds, false entry, conspiracy to violate national...
Going along amiably with the rituals required of an elder statesman when he becomes a year older, former President Herbert Hoover, a healthy 83, boarded the liner President Hoover at San Francisco, sliced a chunk from a 5-ft.-long birthday cake modeled after the ship. Earlier, he told reporters that the state of the nation, despite threats of war and inflation, is "the best in history." He reported that his health is "fundamentally good," then qualified his diagnosis wryly: "After you pass the scriptural limit of three score and ten years, your longevity depends mainly on pills...
...years ago a staff member of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts saw a striking pair of portraits in the shop of a Chicago art dealer. They were rare works from the middle period of Lucas Cranach the Elder, one of the great German painters of the early 16th century. The 10¾-by-16⅛-in. wood panels, described by experts as among Cranach's finest portraits, show Moritz Buchner, mayor of Leipzig, and his wife Anna, elaborately dressed and richly bejeweled, the man gazing at the world with shrewd but not unkind eyes, the woman modest, grave, rather...
...elder Diefenbaker tutored young John, kept him reading nightly by the light of a coal-oil lamp. According to a family legend, John looked up one night from a biography of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Liberal Prime Minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911, and announced in a firm voice: "I'm going to be Premier of Canada." His mother smiled; John's studies went ahead as though high office were indeed the aim. He never even learned to milk...
Died. James B. ("The Silver Fox") Bowler, 82, oldtime Chicago West Side ward boss, alderman (except for two brief intervals) from 1906 to 1953, and U.S. Congressman from 1953; in Chicago. Elder statesman of the city's Democratic machine, Bowler shared power all through the boodle days with "Hinky Dink" Kenna and his close friend "Bathhouse John" Coughlin, whose insurance business Bowler took over when Coughlin died (1938), once maintained his own rifle-equipped "army" to hold out against gangster attempts to invade and take over his ward...