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Word: methuselan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...living were born. The late Major Bowes launched it on radio, and his top aide, Ted Mack, brought it to television in 1948. It is still the top-rated show in its time slot (5:30 p.m., E.D.T.), pulling 12,700,000 viewers a week. Last week, in a Methuselan milestone, its "wheel of fortune" went spinning for the 1,500th time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: For Whom the Gong Tolls | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...crony of Mark Twain's and studied relativity with Einstein before asking in 1904 to become Shaw's biographer, so impressed The Beard with his erudition (G.B.S. called him "the Grand Panjandrum") that he produced not one but three full-scale lives of the Methuselan playwright; of a heart ailment; in Chapel Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 13, 1963 | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

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