Word: fiftyish
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...Divorced. By Sheilah Graham, aging (fiftyish) blonde Hollywood gossipist, onetime London chorus girl and great and good friend of the late Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald: Wojciechowicz Stanley ("Bow Wow") Wojtkiewicz, 40, sometime athletic director; after four years of marriage, one of separation, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...there are some who ride the Uncle-pays plan like a gravy train. Last week, in offices scattered all over the world. U.S. diplomatic and information officials were recounting a nightmarish story of two such hellbent freeloaders, both staff members of the Senate Appropriations Committee. They are Grace Johnson, fiftyish, tough-talking, weight-throwing $10,000-a-year staffer and longtime friend of Louisiana's Democratic Senator Allen J. Ellender; and her companion, Mississippi-born Mary Frances Holloway, fortyish, an assistant committee clerk. Twice, the two women made prolonged trips abroad, ostensibly to investigate the operations...
Died. Mrs. Else F. Schlemmer, petite, fiftyish, Danish-born widow of William F. Schlemmer, longtime (1916-45) owner of Hammacher Schlemmer, Manhattan's classy housewares knickknack (sea-urchin paste, bronze fig leaves for statues) dispensary, who took over the firm, ran it for eight years after her husband's death, in 1952 named more than 100 store employees in her sizable will; after long illness; in Manhattan...
...Jersey's populous Sixth District (Union County), handsome, bustling Assemblywoman Florence Dwyer, fiftyish, took away from personable, 36-year-old Democrat Harrison Williams Jr. the seat he has held since 1953. Even more startling were the results in traditionally Democratic Hudson County, whose two House seats the Democrats had considered money in the bank. In the 14th District, bumptious Democrat T. (for Thomas) James Tumulty, whose boast it was that he carried more weight (330 Ibs.) than any man in Congress, ran well behind 49-year-old Auditor Vincent J. null In the 13th District, 45-year-old Major...
...INSURGENTS, by Vercors (308 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.95). The hero of this odd novel is a weird doctor-poet who puts himself in a state of suspended animation for the good of humanity, or so he thinks. Fiftyish and French but drenched in decadent German romanticism, Egmont no longer practices medicine or writes poetry, but takes drugs and drifts through rooms replete with twisted vines, oddly shaped chemical phials and stuffed animals. As he confides to a friend: "I wouldn't be so bored if someone explained to me what it was all about, here on this planet...