Word: fiftyish
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After a publicity-winning preview sale to her perennial Palm Beach hostess, Rose Kennedy, chic Helene Arpels, fiftyish, a regular titlist in the world's ten-best-dressed-women stakes, opened to the public a gemlike boutique in Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel. Located just two blocks from where her estranged husband, Louis Arpels of Van Cleef & Arpels, traffics in tiaras, the new establishment stocks such exotica as 17th century quill pens with ballpoint nibs ($13.45) and square-toed velvet bedroom slippers for men ($24). Cooed Mme. Arpels, gesturing at the merchandise with a ring-finger diamond that...
After a six-year eclipse, Flygirl Jacqueline Cochran, fiftyish, reclaimed the title of the world's fastest female. Piloting a T-38 twin-jet trainer at 842.6 m.p.h. over a speedway at California's Edwards Air Force Base, the high-level cosmetician (Jacqueline Cochran, Inc.) surpassed the 1955 record of France's Jacqueline Auriol by 127 m.p.h...
...year's most clandestine airlifts, a White House craft early this month furtively shuttled from Hamtramck, Mich., to Hyannisport, Mass. Aboard was Hamtramck's Director of Tennis Jean Raymond Hoxie, fiftyish, a leathery blonde Barnard graduate whose singleminded enthusiasm has converted the tough, working-class Detroit district into a fertile Forest Hills farm club. Summoned to the weekend White House to give a tennis lesson to Jacqueline Kennedy. Mrs. Hoxie brusquely chivied Secret Service men into action ("What are all of you just lounging around for? Pick up a racket and start hitting some balls") but reserved...
Married. Eunice Bailey Oakes, about 32, British-born beauty and the widow of William Pitt Oakes, whose father, Sir Harry Oakes, was mysteriously murdered in Nassau in 1943; and Robert David Lion Gardiner, fiftyish, longtime bachelor and owner of Gardiner's Island, a 3,300-acre tract off eastern Long Island that has been in the family since 1639 and that becomes the property of Yale if there are no Gardiner heirs; in New York City. An outpouring of diamond-studded society made it the winter's most glittering wedding...
...perpetual old age," quipped Oscar Wilde when Max Beerbohm was all of 25. It is difficult to know precisely when Max's old age began. Perhaps, since he "detested change of any kind," it began at birth. He was the ninth and last child of a late-fiftyish father; a faintly melancholy, autumn mood came as first nature to Max. Then again, his old age may have begun at 23 when his first book, archly titled The Works of Max Beerbohm, was published, and he announced (prematurely) his retirement from the literary scene to make way for "younger...