Word: fiftyish
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...Fiftyish Gaus looks out on the panorama of men living with one another through deep brown eyes backed by a mind that is a compound of the soft-boiled romantic and the methodical social scientist. One moment his fancy turns to roaming Chicago's like front and standing back to scan story-packed skyline. The next he is advising a governmental agency on nuances of procedural policy. Here lies perhaps the key portion of his career. In his years at Madison he guided the Wisconsin Executive Council through its pioneer efforts to relieve the excessive burden on the legislature...
...Independence, with Brazilian Ambassador Carlos Martins and his wife aboard, took off from Washington National Airport this week, two hours after a plane loaded with 22 reporters, photographers, radio and newsreel men. In the press plane was one woman: slight, sharp-tongued, fiftyish May Craig, a grandmother and longtime correspondent for Maine's Gannett newspaper chain. Reporter Craig was one of Harry Truman's few worries of the moment...
Mother made a fine 15-stone* corpse. Even in her coffin, she dominated the dingy, chocolate-colored house which Edna, her spinster daughter, would now inherit along with other odds & ends of property and nondescript furnishings. Edna had devoted her life to Mother. Edna was fiftyish. "What a relief for Edna," whispered the family. "She must feel that she's starting life again...
Divorced. Eugene Ormandy, 47, the Philadelphia Orchestra's balding, barrel-chested maestro; by onetime Harpist Steffy Goldner Ormandy, fiftyish; after 25 years, one child; in Reno...
Married. Mary Peabody Fitzgerald, 30, daughter of the Right Rev. Malcolm Peabody, Episcopal Bishop of Central New York, granddaughter of the late Dr. Endicott Peabody, famed headmaster of Groton School; and Ronald Tree, fiftyish, M.P. and Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Town and Country Planning in the Churchill Cabinet, rich cousin of rich Publisher Marshall Field III; both for the second time; in Huntington...